Steel products for cuban market

The industrial equipment company of the group RC (Refrigeration and Boilers), attached to the Ministry of the Basic Industry, is producing steel items for the domestic market. According to experts, the company makes steel containers for water treatment, industrial refrigeration, and the storage, transportation and processing of industrial gases and water. Read More

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Anacaona Band is recording new CD

Cubas all-woman Anacoana salsa band is recording their fourth career record at the Eusebio Delfin Recording Studios in Cienfuegos. Read More

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Cuban Tobacco Sector Improves

Tobacco Union workers will hold their 9th Congress next May 29-31 encouraged by favourable results and good prospects for the economic sector, said union general secretary Bernardo Oliva. Read More

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Health official praises Cuban Biopharmaceutical Industry

Victor Maqueda, an auditor for the World Health Organization (WHO), spoke to Granma while in Havana attending the Fourth International Workshop on Aseptic Processing in the Biopharmaceutical Industry. "Despite the difficulties related to infrastructure and access to certain specific materials, the Cuban biopharmaceutical industry is today one of the most internationally recognized thanks to the sustained development of new products of a high degree of added value, and the security achieved in obtaining them." Read More

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Vietnam and Cuba to establish transport consultancy joint venture

Vietnam's Ministry of Transport and Communication and the Cuban Ministry of Construction have agreed to establish a consultancy joint venture company by 2008. Read More

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Idaho Potato Commission opening doors to Cuba

The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) was recently part of a delegation of 35 Idahoans, including Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter, who traveled to Cuba to meet with government officials to discuss trade opportunities between Cuba and Idaho. The Commission focused primarily on ways to sell fresh and/or processed Idaho Potatoes into Cuba as potatoes are an important staple in the Cuban diet. Read More

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Mountaire farms to start exporting chicken meat to Cuba

By the end of this month, Mountaire Farms will be shipping container loads of chicken to Cuba, despite U.S. trade restrictions on the country. Delaware joins 38 other states currently exporting to Cuba, which is located just 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Read More

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Cuba to export cables to Latin America

Cuba is investing in its iron-and-steel industry to export high added value products to Latin America and the Caribbean, like electric and telephone cables. Read More

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Cigar production up in Las Tunas province

The manufacture of exportable cigars continues to grow in Cuba's eastern Las Tunas province, despite the lack of experience of local cigar makers in this activity Read More

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Cuba Strengthens Tourist Ties with Germany

Cuba is taking actions to strengthen tourist ties with Germany, as part of efforts to increase tourist arrivals in the Caribbean Island. Read More

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