Factory of sorbitol of Camagüey surpasses a thousand 340 tons in the year

Por:Lucilo Tejera Díaz

The only factory of sorbitol of Cuba, located in this city, surpasses a thousand 340 tons in the year, most dedicated to the elaboration of the dental past distributed in the family basket.

Angel Joseph Marshall, boss of production of the industry, said that according to the yield of the plant and the matter prevails available at this time the 2009 will finish with some a thousand 530 tons.

Besides giving the compound for its employment in the country, this year it grew the export lightly, mostly to nations of the Caribbean area and Latin American.

In accordance with the plans, in the 2010 a thousand 600 tons of sorbitol should be made.

With capacity to manufacture 10 thousand tons annually, the reason of its limited production resides in the first floor supply of glucose from the central Argentina, also in Florida, and Chiquitico Fabregat, in Villa Clara, which get it of the refined sugar, and of a line in Cienfuegos that achieves it of the cared corn.

The sorbitol has a lot of demand for the dentrífics preparation and cosmetics, of foods and as conditioner paper, textile and lines.

In order to increase the elaboration of the product, it is foreseen to undertake in 2010 the assembly of a plant of glucose and fructose of high quality.

According to Juan Carlos Díaz Rodríguez, director of the industry, the investment will allow to obtain seven thousand tons of glucose and same quantity of fructose, both competitive at international level.

With that figure of glucose the 10 thousand tons of sorbitol can be elaborated that respond to the design of the factory, of French technology and in operation from 1993.

The Cuban Institute of Investigations of those Derived of the Cane of Sugar, in City of Havana,achieved the technology for this chemical compound, of high added value and that up to now Japan only elaborates.