Fire causes egg carton shortage
EGG CONSUMPTION in Panama has climbed 13.9 percent to 63 million in 2015 , but delivery to supermarket shelves is threatened by lack of cartons.
On August 29 fire a destroyed the Moldeados Panameños (Molpasa) factory in Tocumen.
The company produced 100 percent of the cardboard egg cartons in the country.
The National Association of Poultry Farmers of Panama (Anavip) is implementing a contingency plan due to the destruction of a large number of the cartons in the fire.
Anavip Executive Director Maria Lavinson said that egg cartons are now being imported until a local source can be developed.
“To deal with this serious and unexpected event, we have made intense efforts to normalize the situation as soon as possible through the urgent import of packages,” she said.