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Skeldon sugar factory to commence final test run today

Mar 30, 2010 News

… as Hanoman says Chinese “on board” with the extension request

The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is all set to commence the execution of the final test run today at the Skeldon Sugar Factory after scores of delays.
This is according to Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo, Errol Hanoman, who told this newspaper that the factory will undergo three 72 hours continuous tests.
As it relates to the cane supply, Hanoman said that there is enough to facilitate the factory’s run at its maximum capacity of 350 tonnes an hour.
As it relates to the company’s official request for an extension of the defects liability period which officially ended on March 20, Hanoman, while being unable to say whether there was an official document confirming acquiesce, he did say that the representative of the company based in Guyana seems, “on board.”
President Bharrat Jagdeo did express at a recent press conference that the situation at GuySuCo, particularly with the Skeldon Sugar Factory, was a ‘bother.”
He said that measures have to be put in place to cut cost. The corporation may even have to let go of some employees but not at the cultivation level, he added.
Hanoman recently confirmed that the company had made an official request to the Chinese contractors hired to construct the new Skeldon Sugar factory to extend the defects liability period.
The defects liability period is the duration that was allotted to identify deficiencies, and all such deficiencies identified in that allotted time have to be remedied by the contractors. Subsequent to that, any defects will have to be addressed by GuySuCo.
Hanoman stressed that the request for the extension is in no way reflective of a suspicion of that there are any critical defects still unidentified.
The CEO said that the request is in light of the fact that the company would prefer to have the final test of the factory conducted during the defects liability period.
This would be better for the company, according to Hanoman, given that any defects identified will then be addressed by the contractors.
Prior to the official expiration, Hanoman had informed this newspaper that the contractors had managed to remedy some of the critical defects that were identified. At that time, he noted that up until the defects liability period came to an end on March 20, testing would have been a continuous process.
In excess of 100 defects were found at the new Skeldon Sugar factory, with 10 being considered as critical.
Subject Minister, Robert Persaud, recently told the Economic Services Commission that the Chinese contractors will stay on to ensure that all of the defects are remedied.
Hanoman supported this notion, telling the Committee that the Chinese have expressed confidence in remedying the identified defects. He added that by August this year all should be addressed.

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