Interview with Carlos Pedro Blaquier, president of Ledesma

Affirms that the exchange rate is low and that it subtracts competitiveness to the industry; he believes it necessary to rethink the retentions.Â

In the Argentina of the economic shocks, to turn 100 years is not little thing. Ledesma industry, the company that Carlos Pedro Blaquier directs, is one of the few cases that arrived to the three figures without being never sold to a foreign group. Ledesma has become a company that passed over the limits of industry and has become a true economic group. Blaquier that directs the company since 1970, accepted an interview with LA NACION to summarize the history of the centennial company. Leer más »

Barra Bonita, Brazil (Reuters) – The ethanol biofuel industry of Brazil would invest near 33.000 million dollars up to 2015, said on Tuesday the Association of the Cane Industry (Unica) of that country, while the fuel demand grows as an alternative to the gasoline.Â

The production of ethanol derived from the sugarcane has grown in constant way in the last years and it is forseen that it will increase almost a 20 percent only in the lapse 2008/09, because the flexible fuel cars that work only with ethanol, now dominate the sales of new cars in this quick growing nation. Leer más »