Riff posted:

Demerara_Guy posted:

PNCR/AFC seems to be clueless about the basic principles that companies and operations have on other areas of business and the community.

I know...PPP had all the ideas, no wonder Skeldon was managed so well

Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) views is the topic, Raymond. 

God is intervening.

Oil production like the Middle East, no more rum!

Bibi Haniffa posted:

ksazma posted:

 

When I worked for Siemens back in the early '90s, we had a machine shop where we used raw wires to make flexible leads that goes from the pacemaker to the heart. Now that flexible lead was rubber coated. That rubber coating came from a candle-like material which we melted and molded into a coating sleeve for the lead. The image is stamped St. Jude as Siemens sold the operation to St. Jude in 1994. But when I was there, most of the pacemakers were fully assembled in our Sylmar, CA factory.

Six degrees of separation.  The spouse of a GNI member also worked for Siemens in the '90s and still work there.  And I work for a company that once owned St. Jude's.

That GNI member's wife may know about this. In the early '90s, Siemens Corporation developed their own financial consolidation package called Financial Accounting Consolidation Systems (FACS). We at Pacesetter and Infusion were using a mainframe software called NCS Maxim running off of DEC mainframe. For us to further integrate with Siemens, we were charged with changing our software to ASK Manman. That was going to be a $10M or so upgrade for us. Our fixed assets at that time had an acquisition cost of over $80M. I was on the implementation team for ASK Manman which was on schedule but suddenly came to a screeching halt. I did not know why it was halted. Nonetheless, I left in 1994 using the earthquake to convince all family members that we should move back east. I only learned of the sale to St. Jude sometime in 1995. 

Chief posted:

God is intervening.

Oil production like the Middle East, no more rum!

 

Chief bai, oil does make people drunk too. 

warrior posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Bibi Haniffa posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Bibi Haniffa posted:

ksazma posted:

Maybe DDL should invest in their own estate by acquiring a viable one to support its molasses needs. It is not the most practical approach but nothing is practical in Guyana. That would still be better than importing all the way from India.

They were given the first opportunity to buy Skeldon.  

Bibi, do you know if there is any interest by any group still interested in taking over Skeldon factory?

The Coalition Gov't has been looking for a buyer for Skeldon since in 2015 before they announced any estate closures.  Last I heard they still have not found a buyer.

Thanks. I hope they have patience and wait for a buyer. I am afraid they might start dismantling the factory. Have a Happy new year.

my professor friend which business man will buy that factory maybe if they sell it without the factory 

 

My friend and buddy, anything is possible. I just hope that if that factory is operating, lots of sugar workers from other estates might move up to Skeldon and provide a steady workforce. People need to make a living. Farmers in America are given subsidies to grow beets for sugar production.

Chief posted:

God is intervening.

Oil production like the Middle East, no more rum!

 

When????
How about wine?