Loja productive sectors hit by power outages –

The power cuts began this last weekend and intensified since Monday, April 15.

The president of the Chamber of Small Industry of Loja (CAPIL), Patricio Valarezo García, mentioned to Diario Crónica that the situation is complicated, because everything moves with energy, for example, the metalworking sector.

“It is a problem that there are rationings, but a major inconvenience is not knowing what time they will be done. We had requested a schedule, which is not respected; This causes the scheduled work schedules to become nonexistent,” he said.

Furthermore, with this situation another problem arises, which is that most have orders with delivery dates and sometimes customers do not understand and get upset; However, beyond that, the chain is broken, because the customer is waiting for the product, which—since not everything arrives—is delayed.

For his part, Diego Lara León, president of the Loja Chamber of Industries, noted that the impact is very high, because electrical energy is one of the basic inputs in the productive sector. “Not having electricity is already complicated, but it is worse when there is no planning and it goes away without prior notice, which does not allow having an organization and, above all, in the industrial sector – where production batches require time – cutting it to half, means large losses,” he stated.

He added that today all activity, be it industrial, artisanal or commercial, electrical energy is basic, therefore, the losses will hit the economy of micro and small producers, who do not have the capacity to recover.

In the province, according to him, losses exceed USD 2 million per day.

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