Next Tuesday will take place The first meeting of the year between the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) and the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo. On the sector agenda, the number of recognized companies that in 2024 they shrink or relocated their productionclosed plants and Employees fired. However, within the entity, there are opposite looks on how to address the worrying situation table.
It is a meeting postponed. The appointment between the representative entity of the manufacturing sector and the economic team, headed by Luis Caputo, was going to be carried out originally in November last year. For agenda reasons, the official canceled. But Nor attended the 30th Industrial Conferencecoordinated by the UIA.
The head of the economic portfolio will seek to amend their absences. The UIA, meanwhile, You have already prepared your discussion agenda. Priority will be the need for a Tax reduction to seek competitiveness. “The idea is to raise all distortions, the problems we have in the industry,” he told Scope A source of the entity.
However, the weight of taxes does not seem to be the only limitation for Grow the manufacturing activity in Argentina. The list of recognized companies that occupy the agenda by Announce a spareness or relocation of your productionovens blackout, employee layoffs or low sales is increasingly nourished.
The list that puts the industry alert
The last resonant case is headed Nestlé Argentina, whose plant located in Córdoba will stop working during the month of March. The company, recognized for producing Nesquik powder cocoa, admits a low sales of both internationally and local.
“The Villa Nueva plant is programming the temporary suspension of production during the month of March, due to the need to reduce production volumes mainly due to a decrease in exports and adaptation to local demand”, Pointed out from Nestlé.
The 189 employees of the company were forced to take your annual license. Although Nestlé is responsible for highlighting that it is a temporary measure until the end of March, it is sufficient to include it in the list of industrial complexes that cross similar problems:
- He Grupo DassFootwear manufacturer for brands such as Adidas, Nike and Row, confirmed the closure of its plant in Colonel SuárezBuenos Aires, what resulted in the dismissal of approximately 360 workers. The company argued that the decision responds to an cost optimization strategy and production consolidation in its Eldorado plant, Misiones.
- He Las Heras refrigeratorone of the most important in Argentina, was on sale and leaves 200 workers at risk of losing their job. The company exports meat to China, but it is not working since December and its employees have not perceived the salary since then.
- In December, 260 perfume workers were fired from the company’s distribution center Avon In the Buenos Aires town of San Fernando. The disengagement are framed in a chiculation plan that began months ago with a volunteer retreat plan, because Natura, owner of Avon, seeks to concentrate his logistics on his plant from the Escobar party.
- The footwear factory Bicontinentarlocated in Chivilcoy, announced a plan of volunteer with 130 employees. Since December 1 that the former packet plant operates with a team of only 40 workers, in response to a strong financial crisis that forced these measures. Produce for New Balance, Diadora and Montagne.
- Conflicts in Villa Constitucos, Santa Fe, persist on the part of the group Arceormittal. After a year of sales reduction, the Union of the Metallurgical Union (UOM) warn that Acindar could at least separate others 200 employees -This time outsourced- that provide service for steel.
- Automotives are not far behind. Toyota concluded with a Voluntary Retreat Plan for both operators and hierarchical personnel, while Smata warns Nissan Analyze close its plant in Santa Isabel to import its Pick Up Frontier model from Mexico. Although the production problems that the company alleges are not 2024nor local, the possible closure puts it in the center of the scene.
To this is added the list of companies that from the pandemic to this part decided to withdraw from the country: Procter & Gamble (P&G), Olx Curses, Norwegian, Axalta and PPG, Nike and Under Armoramong others. Also counts the financial crisis of Sancor and agricultural as Los Gobo, Agrofina and Red Surcos.
The looks inside the UIA on the situation of the companies
What place will this situation have on the agenda proposed by the UIA? Formally, the Business Guild Association represents industrial activity. However, the answers within the entity are diverse.
Within the UIA there are those who argue that it is not a general panorama: “We have no more news as if it were something multiple”, Respond to this medium.
Nor do they understand that the problems arising in the factories are exclusively because of the economic landscape, rather specific cases marked by “union issues, more than anything” The meeting, then, should focus on the demands of industrial activity.
Once again, the looks inside the association are substantially different.
At the other end to this position, a business leader who will not be at the meeting for his rejection of the “passivity” of the agenda raised, questions: “How will the decline of these companies not import? We are facing a financial logic that we already live” “You hear them talk and they don’t know what the industry needs,” he rebuilt.
“I can’t see Caputo, nor him. Know what I think”, Responds sharply. To justify your anger, seek complicity in the last claims of Paolo Roccaowner of the Techint group, to level the court before the import wave.
“Even the greats go out to talk. It is not fucking what is happening”, Warned, knowing that interests between SMEs and large companies nucleated in the UIA do not always advocate the same interests.
However, as stated, some opt for a claim position, although moderate. Another leader, who will witness the meeting with the economic teamhe thinks that the agenda will not only be reduced down tax, but does not see a very encouraging panorama.
For the source consulted, the logic, although contradictory for the representation of the UIA, is as follows: “Many of the greats are benefited from this agenda, because more and more are mutating being producers to marketers”, Says resignation.
This is how he points out “A rare mixture of interests among managers”, Which will eventually end up harming the suppliers, intermediaries between the raw material and marketers to a lesser or greater extent.
“Gas valve producers, textiles, founders. All items that tomorrow could be harmed in front of the import opening”, Warns in dialogue with this medium.
Meanwhile, the Government insists with an agenda of deregulations promoted by Federico Sturzenegger, Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State. “We accept the initiatives, but we know that it is not an industrial plan properly speaking”, Confess from the inside.
The UIA, in turn, will have at hand the last manufacturing industrial production report, which came out this Thursday. In December 2024, The manufacturing IPI shows a rise of 8.4% compared to the same month of 2023 and a positive variation of 0.2% compared to November. However, the accumulated of the year It has a 9.4% decrease Regarding the same period of the previous year, in line with the entity’s estimates.
Source: Ambito
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