The name of the company, which has made an offer for the troubled canning plant, Conservas Fernandez in Calasparra, known as La Diosa, has not been made public but NEXOnr understands one of the plant’s main selling points is the “highly qualified” local work force.
The offer was made on April 18. There are reputedly two other Murcian companies who have expressed interest in purchasing the plant.
Meanwhile the regional Institute of Promotion and Cofrusa, the current owners of the plant, are facing each other in court. The region, which guaranteed a loan of some 28 million euros to enable Confrusa to buy the Halcon Foods Factory in Campos del Rio and the Diosa plant in Calasparra, claims the company has failed to comply with the conditions of the loan by “failing to maintain employment.”
Cofrusa have counter petitioned that the loan was justified because the factories in Mula and Campos del Rio had been working with mandarins on a two day rota up until March, providing work for 577 workers at Mula and 408 workers at Campos del Rio and producing 17 million kilograms of produce between the two.
Even though refloating the factory in Calasparra was a requisite of the loan no mention was made in Cofrusa’s submission to the court.
The case continues.
