In the midst of its bankruptcy filing, a dairy plant paralyzed since January began its reactivation

This is the factory in the town of Suardiwhose staff is around 90 employees. Its “partial and temporary” reactivation was announced weeks ago by the Dairy Industry Workers Association (Atilra), but only in recent days did test work begin.

The resumption of activities occurred based on a formal contract signed with the company Copalac SASa simplified company based in the Cordoban town of Morteros, made up of dairy producers from the region. Only the Suardi plant comprises the agreement, leaving the Clason and Lehmann facilities outside of it.

According to sources informed Clarín Rurallast week the first truck loaded with milk was processed after more than 8 months of inactivity.

After the setup, the drying of the raw material was done as a test. “It remains to be seen how the results of that powdered milk would be to see if it can be controlled. That is, if the production can continue,” said a source familiar with the work.

At the moment, they have only been summoned between 30 and 40 workers For factory work, less than half of its staff, with 4-hour daily shifts.

The rest of the employees have not yet received official communication or from the union regarding their participation in the work: “we continue in the sweet wait. Until now they haven’t told us anything at all and we haven’t received a single peso. A shame.”

On the other hand, there was interest in signing new contracts for custom work at the Lehmann plant by a renowned dairy company from Córdoba, but so far they are only “comments” that reach the ears of the workers.

In the middle of last week, Lácteos Verónica presented itself to preventive bankruptcy of creditorswith debts amounting to $16 billionseveral bankruptcy requests, its three plants paralyzed since January and salary debts with all of its workers since the beginning of the year.

The presentation took place at the National Commercial Court No. 17, Secretariat No. 34, in the city of Buenos Aires, under the sponsorship of Estudio Alegría, Buey Fernández, Fissore & Montemerlo.

According to data from Banco Centras (BCRA), the financial debts are located around the $4,744 millionboth with public entities (Banco Provincia, Ciudad y Nación) and private entities (Banco Galicia, Santander, Industrial, among others).

In addition, the firm accumulates 3,666 rejected checks for an amount greater than $13,251 million, of which $1,973 million were paid, therefore the debt is located at $11,278 million.

To this must be added a debt with milk suppliers estimated at US$60 millionaccording to industry estimates.