SANTA CLARA, Cuba. - Cuba saved 10 million dollars in 2009 by recapping 65 000 tires, thus reducing imports, and plans to increase these figures during the current year.
Rolando Alfonso, director of the Empresa de la Goma (Tire Enterprise) (Polygom), told ACN news agency that in 2010, they forecast the recovery of some 90 000 units, down from the existing capacities in the country to recover tires.
In Cuba there are five facilities devoted to tire recap, located in Havana, Villa
Alfonso emphasized on the need to stimulate greater understanding between the heads of the companies with the greatest number of vehicles on this important pathway to substitute imports and to support the vitality of transport.
He added that there is a modern technology that can raise the quality of work and that they are making efforts to reduce the time gap to less than 10 days from the tire to arrive to its return to work.
We are buying new plants for the recovery of productive capacities in the Havana,