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The only operational sugar factory in Spain, forced to stop due to the transport strike due to lack of raw material

Sugar
Spain
Published Mar 18, 2022

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The transport strike has forced the only operational sugar factory in Spain to stop, the one that Azucarera has in Jerez de la Frontera and in which, after the beet campaign, raw cane sugar is refined to supply the national market, which has a deficit in production. beet sugar production.

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The factory has decided to stop production this Thursday the 17th due to the impossibility of continuing with normal activity due to lack of raw material, having worked at low speed in recent days to avoid the stoppage. Throughout today, the last 450 tons remaining in the facilities will be refined, when in a normal day of activity more than 1,600 tons are refined. This closure will entail a high cost for the company due to the complexity involved in shutting down a factory of this type. In addition, this transport strike is already seriously affecting the supply of sugar to Azucarera's customers. Azucarera, together with the local authorities and the security forces, has tried by all means to guarantee both the supply of crude oil to the factory and the sugar service to its customers, putting on the table all kinds of solutions so that the trucks could access the factory, without success. On a normal day of activity, more than 80 trucks enter the Jerez de la Frontera sugar ...
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