After more than two decades of complaints from residents of Guaymallenthe company Juan López y Cía It will move to another site within four years thanks to the signing of an agreement with the Province and the municipality to maintain employment sources.
The Province and the Municipality of Guaymallén committed to accompanying the company to obtain financing and thus cover the cost of the transfer to one of the industrial parks in the province.
Juan López y Cía is a former soap producer. “We are soap makers who have become fat manufacturers, because specifically inorganic soap and synthetic detergents have supplanted soap,” he said. Sergio Lopezthe current owner of the firm, third generation of a family that settled many years ago in the Pedro Molina districtat 2,600 Río Negro Street, when the area was eminently rural.
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At the top of the table, Minister Rodolfo Vargas Arizu and the mayor of Guaymallén, Marcos Calvente.
Photo: Press of the Municipality of Guaymallén
Years later, with the growth of the population, the work carried out by the industry generated friction with the inhabitants. The conflicts arose in the ‘90 particularly because of the odors emanating from production.
Marcos Calvente received the Minister of Production
The mayor of Guaymallén, Marcos Calventereceived the Minister of Production, Rodolfo Vargas Arizu, and Sergio López to sign the transfer agreement. Also participating were the Undersecretary of Commerce, Industry and Logistics, Alberto Marengo; the Undersecretary of Employment and Training; Emilce Vega Espinozathe director of Productive Development; Mauricio Pinti Clopand the head of the Mendoza Agency for Innovation, Science and Technology, Federico Morabito. Also present at the event was the director of Environment and Energy of the Commune, Juan Correa.
“It is not the same as the company going out alone to seek financing, as it is a project supported by the Municipality and the provincial government. Where I am, I can’t double my production and bother even more. of which the neighbors were disturbed,” explained the businessman, and then stated that these limitations are causing the loss of good business opportunities.
The company works with meat waste from refrigerators and slaughterhouseswhich if they were not used by industries like Juan López y Cía, would become an environmental liability. That waste, fats and bones, is transformed into other byproducts; At one time they were used to make soap, today for fat for kitchen, glycerin and oleic acid for the pharmaceutical industry, biofuels and meat flour which is used in the preparation of balanced food.
This task can be considered within the paradigm of circular economy. According to the director of Environment and Energy, Juan Correa, the work of moving and expanding production, “is a milestone because we always attack this problem from the demonization of the actors; we began to look for another way, that of sustainable developmentthen it is easier to search for financing for all the sustainability impacts that the company has.”
This not only solves the problem of the residents of Pedro Molina, but also preserves an industry that generates jobs and, with the expansion of space and production due to new possible businesses, there will be more jobs and economic development. They stood out from the Guaymallén Commune.
One of the alternatives to move the company is the triangle formed by Acceso Este, Jesús Nazareno and Tirasso avenues.in the area specified as industrial in the territorial planning plan of the commune.
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