Afrigather Beja/Tunisia — The Beja sugar manufacturing facility has been working for 2 weeks at a manufacturing fee of 500 tonnes per day, which represents half of Tunisia’s sugar wants, estimated at 1,000 tonnes per day, the corporate’s CEO Mohamed Bahri Gabsi instructed TAP on Monday.
He added that upkeep work, the corporate’s restructuring and gear programme and funding and growth plans are anticipated to carry productiveness as much as greater than 700 tonnes per day and create a sustainable manufacturing sample throughout the framework of a sustainable sugar system.
He pressured that the scarcity of sugar on the regional and nationwide markets shouldn’t be the accountability of the Tunisian Sugar Firm, explaining that its distribution is topic to an entire system below the accountability of the Nationwide Commerce Board.
Bahri Gabsi identified that the manufacturing facility requires common upkeep and that, though its gear is greater than half a century outdated, it has all the time resumed its actions, has not closed its doorways and is working at its regular tempo.
It ought to be famous that the sugar system is monitored by a ministerial committee and was the topic of a particular follow-up by President Kais Mentioned final December.
