The spanish company that manufactures textiles for hotels and hospitals, Resuinsa, has announced the opening in Costa Rica of a distribution center for the region.
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Resuinsa announced that from its logistics center in Costa Rica it will distribute its products to Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador, as well as supplying the local market.The company manufactures and supplies textiles to hotel chains, hospitals and nursing homes.
Elfinancierocr.com reports that "...Resuinsa has spent a lot of years working in Costa Rica where it supplies textiles for hotel chains such as Barcelo, Riu and Melia and clubs such as the Country Club of San Jose.Its customers are located both in the urban area of the capital and the tourist zone of Guanacaste."
"...Based in Spain, Resuinsa is strengthening its strategic policy in the region, it already has offices in Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic."
The Salvadoran union has stated that excessive bureaucracy and high production costs are the main factors that could be encouraging some textile mills to reduce operations in the country.
José Antonio Escobar, president of the Chamber of the Textile Industry, Clothing and Free Zones of El Salvador (Camtex) told Elsalvador.com that one of the companies that has shut down part of its operations, to transfer them to another country, is Fruit of the Loom.Escobar said"...'In the plant owned by Fruit of the Loom in the industrial park American Park, where a thousand people work, the company will make a reduction of about 850 positions'."
Gildan Activewear has confirmed an investment in a new manufacturing plant in the north of the country in order to take advantage of Costa Rican quotas for textile entering the U.S. market.
In the second quarter report to shareholders 2014, Gildan Activewear confirmed today in Montreal that it will make its next investment in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, installing a modern textile manufacturing plant.
Guatemala's textile industry is changing from exporter of finished products to one that provides raw materials to manufacturers in other Central American countries.
The migration of maquila companies to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras has generated an increased demand for industrial fabric and textile materials transforming the Guatemalan textile industry.
Accesorios Textiles S.A. invested 1.5 million dollars to provide labos to manufacturers of garments sold in the United States under the free trade agreement.
This Guatemala company is an example of the multiplier effect of free trade. Since the middle of 2006, when the agreement went into effect, it has invested more than 1.5 million dollars to buy machinery, expand facilities, and hire personnel to diversify its production.
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