translated from Spanish: The future of the Iansa plant in Linares: a finish out to the highest bidder

In 2018, the workers of Iansa Linares resisted everything that could the closure of the sugar firm’s production unit, which ultimately chose to close the industrial plant, after the beet to throw insurmountable losses for the firm.
After the controversy that left 4,000 people straight to indirect without work, he finished a long history of operations in Curicó, and today the plant will simply be topped off to the highest bidder. Although according to farmers, it is difficult for anyone to take over this “white elephant”.
The factory, located at kilometer 194 of the route and adjacent to the River Lontúe, has a sugar plant of 25 hectares, 16 hectares of forest and 5 fruit trees, in addition to the water rights for the operation of the production unit.
The price is not little. A minimum stance of $8 million. In Linares they comment that the only alternative is that some agricultural reconvert the unit to its needs, considering that the plant has what is most scarce today in agricultural activity: water.
The plant closed in July 2018 and the auction-call has no end date for now.

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