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Message: New Mining Minister - Rodolfo Sanz

New Mining Minister - Rodolfo Sanz

posted on Jan 18, 2008 09:01PM

Things may be looking up if the Minister plans to be visiting the Guayana Region weekly for the next two months. May this be the turning point when Las Cristinas will get some much deserving attention?

Surely the development of the project has to be high on his priority list. Rodolfo Sanz, Minister of Basic Industries and Mines, announced during his meeting with the chairmen of companies affiliated with CVG, which intends to implement a plan of integration and joint work, and revealed that in 60 days weekly visit to Guyana.

Rodolfo Sanz, titular del Mibam, y Daniel Machado, presidente de CVG, ratificaron su voluntad de trabajar en equipo. Rodolfo Sanz, owner of Mibam, and Daniel Machado, president of CVG, confirmed their willingness to work as a team. Foto: José Arias Photo: Jose Arias

The owner of Mibam expressed its commitment to promote the implementation of the Improvement Plans, and reported that during the next 60 days will be visiting the Guayana region weekly, in order to inspect in person the situation of enterprises and the basic attached to la Compañía Nacional National Company de Industrias Básicas (Coniba). Basic Industries (Coniba).

A vision of integration and joint work was the centrepiece that guided the first meeting in Guyana, the current Minister of People's Power for Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam), Rodolfo Sanz, the president of CVG, Daniel Machado, and presidents of companies protected, which took place at the headquarters of the Corporation this Thursday.

The CVG president, welcomed the minister and his team, and directed the presentation on the current status of companies in the holding, which emphasized: financial status, employment, productivity and social commitment. Additionally, Machado presented a specific proposal for a comprehensive solution to the problem of aluminum industry, a product of joint work between the companies that make it up.

Sanz reported that during the next 60 days will be visiting the Guayana region weekly, in order to inspect in person the situation of enterprises and the basic attached to the National Company of Basic Industries (Coniba).

"Tomorrow I will be in the premises of tubes without seam, which informed me that the CVG donated assets to the project (civil works and equipment); later in the company of Pulp and Paper, recuperating in the Raw Materials and on the premises of the plant Concentration of Iron Ore, "said Sanz.

With regard to the current situation in the sector Aluminum owner of Mibam stressed that they will endeavour to give a more rational to it, through technological adequacy and implementation of a plan for the medium and long term.

"The systems approach allows Aluminium sector visualize the possibility to implement, the plan effectively," Sanz trial of the main enemy to overcome is the "vision of plots", thinks that this is a reality that hinders teamwork .

For his part the president of CVG reaffirmed its willingness to work with the team Mibam to successfully implement the improvements planned for all core businesses, highlighted the management support Sanz and the commitment of the corporation to work for an draft comprehensive country.

MESSAGE TO WORKERS

Sanz expressed its intention to create a meeting place for discussion and analysis of the employment situation in each of the companies CVG to agree with the workers and their union representatives Improvement Plans.

"We must make a major effort to regain credibility when it is raised to do, but there is reason to be optimistic because the problems have been analysed with great depth and the picture is quite clear, it only requires a momentum, we are going to give it" he said.

He called to raise awareness that social investment executed by CVG and its companies, in order to help improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of the region, is part of its utility. "The call is for workers and managers join efforts to boost productivity so that reinvidicaciones are workable and the social impact of our business is even greater," said Sanz. CVG Press / Laura Gil

Role of private industries

Another aspect highlighted by the new head of the portfolio of Basic Industries and Mines, was to review the role of private industries, as Sidor, which have a considerable impact on the downstream chain of food, construction, among other key sectors of the national economy. "Because all companies settled in the country must be at the service of development and we want to do this work in harmony, there will always be a place for private investment that is willing to work together with the State," concluded Sanz.


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