A new partnership between a Russian and a Cuban company was established during the IV International Convention and Exhibition Cubaindustria 2024in which the purpose is the production of scales and balances, a very depressed sector within the context of the Island.
They were the Weighing Instrument Manufacturing and Services Company (Pexac), the only one of its kind in the country, and a Russian entitywho signed this CubaRus international economic association, which will mean an improvement for these teams in the country.
Pexac is a Cuban company, belonging to the Electronics Group, that has been on productive strike for two years.due to the lack of spare parts to do their job.
Laura Hernandez Baquerogeneral director of the entity, was confident that this alliance would allow the revitalization of the manufacturing of weighing instruments of different sizes, such as commercial scales and industrial scales, the official newspaper said in a report. Granma.
In this first stage, he assured, that The focus is on industry and commercial catalogsalthough they do not rule out expanding production to all clients of the economy that need them, among which they mentioned domestic trade, agriculture, health, ports and airports.
Also, he said that they have the interest in exporting these products to countries in Central America and the Caribbeanmeanwhile, confirmed that sales in the domestic market will be in foreign currency.
The directive stated that the profits generated from these sales will be used to protect social programs, some of Public Health, with the manufacture of the newborn scale.
This new alliance is part of the strategic ties that the Cuban government is establishing with Russiacreating an economic dependency with that Eurasian nation, projected by the leaders as the probable solution to the serious economic crisis that the Island is experiencing.
For their part, they are frequent complaints from the population about poor calibration and maintenance of weights with which they sell the few food products they can access, whether from the state sector, in warehouses and agromarkets, or in the private sector.
