A new partnership between a Russian company and a Cuban one was established during the IV Convention and International Exhibition Cubaindustria 2024, with the purpose of producing scales and balances, a sector that is quite depressed within the context of the Island.
The Manufacturing and Weighing Instruments Services Company (Pexac), the only one of its kind in the country, and an entity from Russia, were the ones who signed this international economic partnership CubaRus, which will entail an improvement for these equipments in the country.
Pexac is a Cuban company, belonging to the Electronics Group, that has been on a production halt for two years due to a lack of spare parts to carry out its work.
Laura Hernández Baquero, general director of the entity, expressed confidence that this alliance will revitalize the manufacturing of weighing instruments of various sizes, such as commercial scales and industrial scales, as reported by the official newspaper Granma.
In this first stage, he ensured that the focus is on industry and commercial catalogs, although they do not rule out expanding productions to all clients in the economy who need them, including domestic trade, agriculture, health, ports, and airports.
He also mentioned that they are interested in exporting these products to countries in Central America and the Caribbean, while confirming that sales in the domestic market will be in foreign currency.
The directive stated that the profits generated from these sales will be allocated to the protection of social programs, some related to Public Health, including the manufacturing of the neonatal scale.
This new alliance is part of the strategic links that the Cuban government is establishing with Russia, creating an economic dependence on that Eurasian nation, projected by leaders as the likely solution to the serious economic crisis the Island is facing.
On the other hand, there are frequent complaints from the population about the poor calibration and maintenance of the weights with which they are sold the few food products they can access, whether from the state sector, in warehouses and agromarkets, or in the private sector.
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