With argon welding in the face of gas limitations

At Azutecnia Las Tunas, they are not letting themselves be defeated by the obstacles posed by the blackouts, and the lack of fuel, gases, and other supplies and raw materials to meet the important demands of the country's sugar industries with a view to the next harvest.

“Here we are looking for alternatives and we don't know when the time is dead,” says Osmany Santos Labrada, the director of this grassroots business unit (UEB in Spanish) attached to the Azcuba sugar group.

Santos Labrada confirms that they are still immersed in the repair of trailers for the transfer of sugar cane, Yung, Kamaz, and Yuchai engines, agricultural implements, and the adaptation of a trailer to be placed in the territory's seaside resorts to stimulate the most outstanding and their families.

‘We are convinced, he stresses, that despite the difficulties, something useful can always be done and we keep alive the spirit of creative resistance, that is why we keep training operators in new technologies used in cane harvesting and we repair oxy-cutting equipment and welding tongs for all entities of the sector at the national level’.

CHANGES IN WORK, NEW SERVICES...

Santos Labrada stresses that to banish the laziness that could be caused by the interruptions caused by the energy contingency, and the lack of fuel, raw materials, and other resources, ‘we redirected the collective's enthusiasm and desire to work in other areas, which also includes the food production program that we promote in the surrounding area’.

He affirms that the livestock module already has some 200 laying hens, whose eggs will improve the workers' diet; and of the 26 hectares of land that will gradually be incorporated into production, “we already have three planted with beans, with properties for human and animal consumption”.

‘We are readapting the premises for commercial purposes, and as it has access to the streets it will allow us to attend to the needs of the population with argon welding and punch bowl services, as well as sales of guarapo, screws, bicycle axles, charcoal cookers and other products that we will make from the cuttings’, says Santos Labrada.

The guarapera is already a reality that passers-by and workers from neighboring centers are grateful for.