Governor opens factory
02/05/2008
The governor of the north-western Brazilian state of Rondônia, Ivo Cassol, has formally opened the state's first footwear factory, praising the initiative for its commitment to use the large supplies of bovine leather produced locally.
The factory, opened with state help by a comany called A Altês, is in the town of Ouro Preto D´Oeste. Mr Cassol said it would provide thousands of jobs. He commented: “This is the first business of this kind that we have had in Rondônia that will use the raw material we have most readily available here—bovine hides—to make its own products.”
He said the project would guarantee a living to families living in Ouro Preto and the surrounding area. It meant that the people who live there would no longer have to leave the city, the state and even the country to find work, he added.
A Altês has brought in two experts from the traditional footwear manufacturing centre of Novo Hamburgo in the south of Brazil to train the new workforce in how to operate the new machinery on the site.
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