Workers in the steel industry of Ciego de Ávila close 2019 with a favorable contribution of their productions to the economic development of the country, despite the effects on the import of some raw materials.

Lázaro René Reyes Perdomo, director of the Base Business Unit (UEB) Indalecio Montejo, informed the ACN that for the national program for the use of renewable energy sources, they elaborated all the metallic structure that carries the mini hydroelectric plant that is built in the Alacranes dam, from Villa Clara.

The Avilanian group, belonging to the Mechanical Steel Processing Company, produced beams, steel columns and trusses for investment in that reservoir, considered the third in Cuba in storage capacity (352 million 400 thousand cubic meters), expanded Reyes Perdomo .

A UEB brigade installed the fiberglass pipes we manufacture for the seawater cooling systems at the Lidio Ramón Pérez (Felton) thermoelectric plant in Holguín, said the executive.

We also produce translucent tiles to favor natural lighting at the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant in Matanzas, and metal tanks for the tourism sector, he said.

During the first quarter of the year, the “Indalecio Montejo” made 3,000 roof modules and 4,200 beam modules, destined for the Housing sector in the country.

It also contributed to tourism development in the Sabana-Camagüey archipelago by guaranteeing light structures such as stairs, corridors, railings and balconies for hotels under construction in Cayo Guillermo, such as Punta Rasa II and Punta Playuela, north of Ciego de Ávila , and steel fuel tanks for multi-pole laundries.

In conjunction with the Las Tunas Metallic Structures Company, known by its commercial name Metunas, the Avilanian industry made warehouses for the selection of tobacco, requested by Agriculture.

Avilanian iron and steel industry is currently involved in the manufacture, with fiberglass, of the seawater pipes of the Central Thermoelectric Power Station of Eastern Havana.