News of industry

Industry on the ropes: Tough times for factories as consumers cut back

24-04-2024 17:24 Factories are on the ropes between adjustment and recession in Argentina. Representatives of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs, or PyMES) warn drop in consumption is threatening the future of industry.

Cheap Chinese steel threatens jobs in Latin America

16-04-2024 09:45 Metal-workers in Latin America are clamouring for higher import tariffs as an avalanche of cheap Chinese steel floods the region.

Billionaire Paolo Rocca has a Plan B for lithium if alpha bid fails

11-10-2023 08:10 Billionaire Paolo Rocca’s oil drilling unit will enter the lithium business one way or another.

Argentina seeks to tax lithium boom to avoid region’s resource curse

02-10-2023 11:57 Provincial and federal officials want to tap the profits of lithium companies with an annual tax that would be put toward building infrastructure.

Lula: Brazil 'will not give in' on public procurement in EU-Mercosur deal

26-05-2023 11:25 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared Thursday that Brazil "will not give in" in talks over the free-trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union.

Edward Porter: What Xi Jinping wants in Latin America

28-04-2023 11:29 China is not interested in turbocharging the region’s industrial development. But neither are its investments seeking to challenge the United States.

Auto industry takes leap forward after stagnant decade

11-04-2023 16:43 New survey from ADEFA car manufacturers association shows a volume of production not registered since October 2013 – more than 61,000 vehicles in a month.

by Gabriela Maidana

Lithium boom delivers job growth to Argentina’s mining industry

28-03-2023 15:09 National industry industry has now recorded 28 consecutive months of job creation growth, with more than 37,000 workers now employed in the sector.