News of production

Toyota-Panasonic battery venture slashes costs to take on China

21-07-2021 14:53 Materials alone make up 60 percent of the cost of an EV battery and about half of that comes from resources like lithium and cobalt. Finding ways to reduce those expenses is proving increasingly important as surging demand for electric vehicles sends raw materials prices soaring.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina's industry posts worst drop since beginning of pandemic

07-07-2021 22:01 Manufacturing sector posts worst decline in more than a year, reinforcing analysts' view that the economy contracted in the second quarter.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Vehicle production revs up in Argentina

06-07-2021 23:05 A total of 193,580 vehicles were manufactured in Argentina in the first half of the year – 123.9 percent more than in the same period last year.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Laboratorios Richmond set to begin manufacturing Sputnik V second doses

30-06-2021 17:17 President of the Laboratorios Richmond pharmaceutical firm, Marcelo Figueiras, confirms that local production of the second dose of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine will start next Monday.

Bloomberg

Billionaire Eurnekian’s CGC buys Sinopec assets in Argentina

30-06-2021 15:22 CGC, majority owned by billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian’s Corporación América International, closes deal for the local unit of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp on Wednesday, the Buenos Aires-based company confirms in a statement.

Bloomberg

Lithium nationalism is taking root in region with most resources

29-06-2021 09:11 Politicians in Latin America, a region that accounts for more than half the world’s lithium resources, are looking to increase the role of the state in an industry that’s crucial for weaning the world off fossil fuels.

SPUTNIK VIDA

Laboratorios Richmond says first 450,000 doses of Sputnik jab are ready

19-06-2021 09:10 Argentine lab says it has completed production of first batch of 448,625 doses. Government has now taken delivery of more than 20 million vaccines from overseas, with more on way next week.

SPUTNIK VIDA

Fernández, Putin confirm production of Sputnik vaccine in Argentina

04-06-2021 23:07 President showers Russian leader with praise as nations confirm mass production of Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine in Argentina will begin imminently.

Covid-19 vaccines

Argentina formally starts producing Russia’s Sputnik vaccine

04-06-2021 17:20 Alberto Fernández and Vladimir Putin formally announce that pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Richmond SA will start producing the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine.

VACCINE DIPLOMACY

Putin hails relationship with Argentina, says Sputnik deliveries will continue

18-05-2021 14:52 "Regular supplies of the vaccine to Argentina have been organised," says Russian leader.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Argentina offers to manufacture delayed AstraZeneca vaccines

07-05-2021 01:50 With delays on Mexican end of mass co-production, Argentina seeks to unblock production of AstraZeneca-Oxford shots, offering to manufacture the entire vaccine domestically.

MINING IN CHILE

Copper bonanza challenge for top producer Chile

04-05-2021 09:00 As the global economy starts to shake off the impacts of the Covid-19 epidemic and makers of electric cars and renewable energy systems clamour for copper, Chile stands to gain handsomely. But political uncertainties in the South American nation have some worried.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Sputnik VIDA vaccine will be ‘principally for Argentina’

24-04-2021 01:27 Laboratorios Richmond chief Marcelo Figueras says first batch of homemade Covid-19 vaccine has been produced, with more than 21,000 doses now in Moscow for quality control checks.

INTERVIEW

Marcelo Figueiras: ‘Argentina has to achieve health sovereignty’

24-04-2021 01:22 Marcelo Figueiras, president and leading shareholder of Laboratorios Richmond, discusses the challenges of producing Sputnik VIDA, when production will commence and future investments.

by Claudio Celano Gómez

SPUTNIK PRODUCTION

Pharmaceutical firm produces first batch of Sputnik V vaccine in Argentina

20-04-2021 13:44 Argentine pharmaceutical firm Laboratorios Richmond says it has complete the first local batch of the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus and will be dispatching it to Moscow for quality control checks. Mass production could begin in June.

Architecture & viniculture

Specialist architects putting Argentine wine on another map

14-04-2021 11:02 Mendoza is synonymous with Malbec wine, but what's not so well known is that the province has become a reference for wine cellar architecture.

AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT

A third of global farmland at 'high' pesticide pollution risk

30-03-2021 14:37 A third of the planet's agricultural land is at "high risk" of pesticide pollution from the lingering residue of chemical ingredients that can leach into water supplies and threaten biodiversity, according to new research.

BLOOMBERG

It’s still ‘America first’ on vaccines as Russia, China fill gap

12-03-2021 12:57 Throughout the developing world, countries like Argentina have been squeezed out by richer nations in the race to secure vaccines produced by Western companies such as Pfizer and Moderna. Across most of Africa and large swathes of Latin America, south Asia and southeast Asia, little or no vaccine has been distributed.

MINING

China's appetite for copper provides Chile with opportunity

26-02-2021 13:08 With the price of copper reaching a 10-year high thanks in no small part to China's insatiable appetite, Chile faces a "unique" opportunity, according to experts.

Global pandemic

Waiving IP rights will not boost vaccine production, says pharma group

23-02-2021 15:00 Exempting Covid-19 vaccines from intellectual property rights will not speed up production or distribution of the jabs, a pharmaceutical industry association argued Tuesday.

PRICE CONTROLS

Government to investigate food companies amid price clampdown

17-02-2021 14:28 Production & Development Ministry plans to investigate several food companies for not “increasing production to its highest level of installed capacity” and ensuring proper delivery.

Coronavirus pandemic

Covid-19 shots on the market or in development

17-02-2021 13:56 With several Covid-19 vaccines either being rolled out or under trial, here is a rundown of the various stages of their development.

BLOOMBERG

Corn up to US$5 a bushel and soybeans spike

06-01-2021 14:50 Maize climbed to US$5 a bushel and soybeans rallied for a sixth day, driving both crops to fresh six-year highs, as farmer protests and dry weather pose threat to supplies.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Industry down 7.1% in August year-on-year, says INDEC

08-10-2020 19:22 Around 54 percent of local manufacturers operated normally in August, with 45.9% working only partially or inactive, says INDEC.

BLOOMBERG

Economic recovery stalls with industry declining

08-10-2020 15:18 Industrial production fell 0.9% in August compared to July and 7.1% from the previous year, according to official data.

TECH & MEDIA

Journalism, beware of Google’s billion-dollar siren calls!

03-10-2020 08:40 The largest threat for Google and Facebook, and Big Tech in general, is regulation.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

PERIODISMO PURO | INTERVIEW

Santiago Cafiero: ‘Macri sought to blame Argentine society for his own failures.’

12-09-2020 08:46 In a feature-length interview, Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero discusses Peronism past and present, the opposition, and what lies ahead for Argentina in the next two years.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

HUNT FOR VACCINE

AstraZeneca pauses Covid-19 vaccine trial after unexplained illness

08-09-2020 21:54 Pharmaceutical company says it has"voluntarily paused" a randomised clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine, in what it called a routine action after a volunteer developed an unexplained illness.

HUNT FOR VACCINE

Argentina to co-produce coronavirus vaccine with Mexico

12-08-2020 17:48 President Alberto Fernández confirms Argentina and Mexico will co-produce millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by scientists at the University of Oxford and Swedish-British pharma firm AstraZeneca.

Coronavirus pandemic

Automobile industry restarts production with limited shifts

27-05-2020 16:26 Sector returns to work after receiving authorisation from the government to restart production with limited shift patterns.

MINISTRY POSITIONS

Environment more sustainable than development in pandemic

09-05-2020 10:28 The problem of climate change has been overtaken by the pandemic but when we can finally forget about coronavirus, we should not forget climate change.

by Michael Soltys

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Juan Cabandié: ‘We all have to move toward more sustainable practices’

09-05-2020 10:09 Environment and Sustainable Development Minister Juan Cabandié says the post-pandemic world needs a “new social and environmental order that contemplates new methods of production,” in an exclusive interview.

by Fermin Koop

MINISTRY POSITIONS

Production in a context of reduction

02-05-2020 10:58 Although always working with centre-left administrations, Kulfas has no political militancy or factional loyalty with his presence in the Cabinet entirely due to his personal links to President Fernández, as a leading member of his Grupo Callao think tank.

by Michael Soltys

Nationwide lockdown

Nine provinces granted exemptions from nationwide lockdown

24-04-2020 14:27 The nine are Entre Ríos, Misiones, Salta, San Juan, Mendoza, Santa Cruz, Neuquén, Jujuy and La Pampa.

Drug Trade

US report: Colombia coca production still at record high

06-03-2020 12:07 The Trump administration has encouraged the Colombian government to ramp-up its efforts of curbing production through arial herbicide spraying.

AGRO POLICY

Farmers unions call four-day strike after rise in soy duties

05-03-2020 21:56 Four producers' unions say they will halt grain and livestock trading for four days and go on strike, starting from Monday, in response to a rise in duties imposed by President Alberto Fernández.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Industry and construction continue free fall

09-01-2020 10:17 Data indicates industrial production slumped by 4.5% in November – 19th consecutive month of decline.

ECONOMIC MEASURES

Kulfas praises businesses as government re-launches Precios Cuidados

08-01-2020 17:46 Government re-launches price-controls scheme with a list of 310 items, which includes "leading brand" products "at reasonable prices," according to officials.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Auto industry decline underlined by 32.5% drop in production in 2019

07-01-2020 09:12 Automobile production fell 32.5% in 2019 in Argentina compared to the previous year, with just 314,787 units manufactured – the sector's lowest level since 2004.

Bloomberg

Argentina’s shale trove risks staying buried, oil chiefs say

12-11-2019 11:21 Drillers in Argentina are scared that interventionist economic policies will foil the world’s next big shale hope.

LABOUR UNREST

Aerolíneas Argentinas reaches 'agreement in principle' with pilots

10-10-2019 10:01 Accord with APLA pilots union expected to be endorsed by the Labour Ministry today, but one other grouping remains at odds with carriers.

BLOOMBERG

Energy companies would likely bear cost of Fernández’s utilities shift

01-10-2019 16:29 Energy companies would likely be made to pay for Alberto Fernández’s move to slow hikes in electricity and natural gas prices.

News of production

Toyota-Panasonic battery venture slashes costs to take on China

Argentina's industry posts worst drop since beginning of pandemic

Vehicle production revs up in Argentina

Laboratorios Richmond set to begin manufacturing Sputnik V second doses

Billionaire Eurnekian’s CGC buys Sinopec assets in Argentina

Lithium nationalism is taking root in region with most resources

Laboratorios Richmond says first 450,000 doses of Sputnik jab are ready

Fernández, Putin confirm production of Sputnik vaccine in Argentina

Argentina formally starts producing Russia’s Sputnik vaccine

Putin hails relationship with Argentina, says Sputnik deliveries will continue

Argentina offers to manufacture delayed AstraZeneca vaccines

Copper bonanza challenge for top producer Chile

Sputnik VIDA vaccine will be ‘principally for Argentina’

Marcelo Figueiras: ‘Argentina has to achieve health sovereignty’

Pharmaceutical firm produces first batch of Sputnik V vaccine in Argentina

Specialist architects putting Argentine wine on another map

A third of global farmland at 'high' pesticide pollution risk

It’s still ‘America first’ on vaccines as Russia, China fill gap

China's appetite for copper provides Chile with opportunity

Waiving IP rights will not boost vaccine production, says pharma group

Government to investigate food companies amid price clampdown

Covid-19 shots on the market or in development

Corn up to US$5 a bushel and soybeans spike

Industry down 7.1% in August year-on-year, says INDEC

Economic recovery stalls with industry declining

Journalism, beware of Google’s billion-dollar siren calls!

Santiago Cafiero: ‘Macri sought to blame Argentine society for his own failures.’

AstraZeneca pauses Covid-19 vaccine trial after unexplained illness

Argentina to co-produce coronavirus vaccine with Mexico

Automobile industry restarts production with limited shifts

Environment more sustainable than development in pandemic

Juan Cabandié: ‘We all have to move toward more sustainable practices’

Production in a context of reduction

Nine provinces granted exemptions from nationwide lockdown

US report: Colombia coca production still at record high

Farmers unions call four-day strike after rise in soy duties

Industry and construction continue free fall

Kulfas praises businesses as government re-launches Precios Cuidados

Auto industry decline underlined by 32.5% drop in production in 2019

Argentina’s shale trove risks staying buried, oil chiefs say

Aerolíneas Argentinas reaches 'agreement in principle' with pilots

Energy companies would likely bear cost of Fernández’s utilities shift

Argentina makes US$334-million interest payment to IMF

US national security advisor set to visit Argentina, Brazil

Fernández to appoint mayoral ally as minister in Cabinet reshuffle

A tragedy in the making

Porno-politics and Argentina’s digital rumour mill

Fernando Iglesias le respondió a Cecilia Nicolini luego de ser acusado de misógino en redes

Florencia Peña: "Estoy pensando en demandar a Fernando Iglesias, esto fue demasiado lejos"

Piden que Fernando Iglesias sea excluido del Congreso por comentarios "misóginos"

Toyota no consigue 200 personas con secundario completo para trabajar en su planta de Zárate

Tragedia en Caseros: dos bomberos murieron en un incendio y otro se encuentra en grave estado