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The TECMA Corporate Group –formerly known as the Electromechanical Entrepreneurial Group (UEM) since its foundation on January 1, 2003 attached to the Ministry of Sugar Industry (MINAZ)- is now grappling with new challenges following an overhaul that reached out to repairs, technical services and expertise management. Juicing up these working lines goes hand in hand with the new needs of the sugar industry, its number-one customer.

The group's president, Eng. Wilfredo Cabrera Regalado, explains the sector of repair services takes up two main fields: farming machinery and the industry. The latter comprises the repair of tool machines, an area that plays a key role for being a highly specialized service solely provided by two institutions nationwide. And TECMA is one of them.

The most important technical and lab services deal with diagnosis, clinical and mechanical trials, metalographic and resistance assessment, as well as the fixing of turbines, centrifuges and electric, hydraulic and internal-combustion engines.

For that purpose, the group is equipped with a central mechanical lab in the headquarters of the TASIA enterprise that logs that particular job for MINAZ and will soon be backed up by the ISO 9000 certification.

One of the TECMA Group's new lines of work is the development of new products and the introduction of cutting-edge technology in MINAZ, a reason why it's now weighing to build the country's second retting machine and boost the making of continuous planks –one of the group's 40 manufacturing items coming together piecemeal in line with its own development plans that will surely raise the industry's efficiency. In order to face up to all those changes, personnel training has been highly regarded as a fundamental element to achieve the planned goals.

Today, all services provided by the group are primarily focused on MINAZ, though they could also be furnished to whatever ministry or company that might need it on the island nation, including enterprises attached to the Ministry of Basic Industry, the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Construction. The group can also assist companies overseas –especially in the Caribbean and Central America- because of the geographical proximity and the existence of a sugar industry out there.

The TECMA Corporate Group, now shifting its focus on new jobs and reshuffling many of its old missions, is meant to play a paramount role in the development of the sugar industry and the country's entire industrial coming of age.

TECMA Agricultural Industry Machinery Corporate Group 663 27th Street, Vedado, Havana, Cuba phone: (53 7) 830 3847 / 830 5516 to 19 fax: (53 7) 33 3576 e-mail: uem@enet.cu