New owners promise clean operation
20/05/2008
A tannery near the town of Granada, Nicaragua, has re-opened after new owners spent $400,000 improving the facility's environmental performance.
The tannery, which processes reptile skins, closed down after complaints about water and air contamination. But a group of business figures from Panama has joined forces with the owners of a local abattoir to re-open the former Reptinic tannery with a new name, La Fuente.
The head of the new group, René Altamirano, has told local media: “We want people to know that we will run things differently.”
He explained that the money invested had gone towards building a new effluent treatment plant, designed and installed by an overseas company.
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