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Plastics provides crisis due to lack of raw materials Request

include resins in the list of priority goods Cadivi

The plastics industry is on the verge of a crisis, as announced by Carlos Celis, President of the Venezuelan Association of Plastic Industries (Avipla).

If last year the processors had difficulty obtaining the necessary amount of raw material by Pequiven, Celis said that now the situation is "dire."

Avipla According to the data, the industries involved in the production of plastic products have a 20% shortfall in the supply of resins, especially polyethylene and polypropylene.

While acknowledging the efforts being made by the state corporation, Celis said that the total resin Pequiven produces and imports is not sufficient to meet demand plastic products in the country.

Celis said that "most companies already have difficulties to complete their production quotas, so have reduced the capacity of production lines by reducing working hours.

also warned that smaller companies are those that may feel a greater impact because "no discretion" in this situation.

However, Celis said that the shortage of raw material does not reach the companies that manufacture packaging and food packaging as Pequiven is giving priority to those who make such products.

To overcome these difficulties, Celis urged the authorities to include plastic resins in the list of priority goods Cadivi and avoid the various formalities to be completed to import raw materials on their own.

also requested the removal of tariff of 15% currently paid by those who have to import such inputs.

Given this scenario, the expansion plans earlier this year made look far. In fact, Celis ruled that the growth achieved in 2007 "has been strangled."

Source taken from:
http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/08/27/eco_art_industria-del-plasti_1018074.shtml