• Submitted by: manso
• Business and Economy
• 08 / 26 / 2011

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Havana, Aug 25 (Prensa Latina) The Industrial Fixtures Company has produced 104,000 concrete sleepers up to the present as part of the strategy to revive Cuba's rail sector.

Julio Cesar Hubert, head of that enterprise, based in the province of Villa Clara, noted that this figure covers more than half of the planned number of concrete sleepers to be built this year.

This production will replace the defective sleepers of the main railroad tracks and other railway lines in the country, Hubert underlined.

Since a new productive line was established in the second semester of 2010, more than 120,000 concrete sleepers were produced.

These new sleepers are more resistant and have a better finish than those previously produced and, per every produced unit, a kilogram of steel is saved, highlighted the official, who was quoted by Granma newspaper.

Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/125862