Ponce Salt Industries

Ponce Salt Industries, Inc. was a manufacturer of salt based in Ponce, Puerto Rico. During its operating years, it dominated the salt market in Puerto Rico.[3]

Ponce Salt Industries
TypePrivate
IndustryFoods
FateFacilities converted to a shrimp aquaculture facility (1987-1991)
FoundedPonce, Puerto Rico June 30, 1951 (1951-06-30)[1]
FoundersJuan E. Mayoral Renovales,
Jorge Martín,
Rafael Pou Vives
Defunct31 December 1980
HeadquartersPonce, Puerto Rico
Key people
Marcos Velez (Appeal Investment Caribe Corporation)[2]
ProductsSalt

History

Ponce Salt Industries was founded as Productos Salinos de Tallaboa on 30 June 1951[4] by Juan E. Mayoral Renovales, Jorge Martín, and Rafael Pou Vives.[5] Juan E. Mayoral Renovales had also been the founder of Ponce Candy Industries. The company had locations in Barrio Encarnacion, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, and at the Port of Ponce. Its Peñuelas location was at latitude 17.993038, longitude -66.720403 (a.k.a., 17° 59' 34.9362" and -66° 43' 13.4508"), where it had 71 acres of space.[6]

Operational profile

The company operated salt ponds in the extreme southwestern part of Puerto Rico and, in 1963, produced 6,000 tons of salt for use in the tannery and fishing and fish canning industries. It also imported some 12,000 tons of salt from Great Inagua, Bahamas, to refine into table salt.[7] The company was a corporation under the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Plan.[8] To support its import/export operations, in 1995 it rented warehouse space from the Ponce Municipal Government at the Port of Ponce warehouse facilities.[9] The company operated until 1980.[10]

References
  1. Lorenzo A. Balasquide. Compendio Intrahistórico de Peñuelas. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Cordillera, Inc. 1972. p. 225. LCCN 84-112350
  2. Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Former Ponce Salt Industries, State Road PR-2, Km 215, Encarnacion Ward, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico. Environmental Resource Technologies (ERTEC). DISUR Project PET 029; ERTEC Project E135222. 10 December 2014. Prepared for: Desarrollo Integral del Sur, Inc. (DISUR), 742 Tito Castro Ave., Suite 103, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 00716. Prepared By: Environmental Consultants (ERTEC) San Juan, Puerto Rico. Page 168 of 192. Accessed 28 May 2018.
  3. Mensaje del Lcdo. Rafael Hernández Colón con Motivo al Natalicio del Ex-Alcalde de Ponce Rafael "Churumba" Cordero Santiago, el 24 de Octubre de 2011, en Ponce, Puerto Rico: Trascendencia Histórica de Rafael Cordero Santiago y Su Sentimiento Ponceñista. Rafael Hernández Colón. 24 October 2011. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Fundación Biblioteca Rafael Hernández Colón. Page 5. Accessed 27 May 2018.
  4. Narrating Memory: Discourses of Development and the Environment in a Puerto Rican Coastal Region. Ricardo Pérez, Eastern Connecticut State University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. Willimantic, Connecticut. USA. (Prepared for delivery at the 2001 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, September 6–8, 2001.) Page 1. Accessed 28 May 2018.
  5. Mensaje del Lcdo. Rafael Hernández Colón con Motivo al Natalicio del Ex-Alcalde de Ponce Rafael "Churumba" Cordero Santiago, el 24 de Octubre de 2011, en Ponce, Puerto Rico: Trascendencia Histórica de Rafael Cordero Santiago y Su Sentimiento Ponceñista. Rafael Hernández Colón. 24 October 2011. Ponce, Puerto Rico: Fundación Biblioteca Rafael Hernández Colón. Page 5. Accessed 27 May 2018.
  6. Ponce Salt Industries. Brownfield Listings. Accessed 28 May 2018.
  7. The Mineral Industry of Puerto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, the Virgin Islands, and Pacific Islands Possessions. Harry F. Robertson, Jose F. Cadilla, Leovigildo Vazquez, Roy Y. Ashizawa. "Minerals Yearbook, 1963." page 954. Accessed 27 May 2018.
  8. Informe Al (1) Honorable Luis Muñoz Marin, Presidente del Partido, y (2) Miembros del Comité Ejecutivo del Partido, De la Comisión de Finanzas. Partido Popular Democratico de Puerto Rico. Comision de Finanzas. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 24 February 1960. Page 15. Accessed 27 May 2018.
  9. Resolucion #154 (1994-1995), Para Aprobar el Contrato de Arrendamiento entre la Junta Administrative del Puerto de Ponce y la Firma Ponce Salt Industries, Inc., y para Otros Fines. Legislatura del Municipio Autonomo de Ponce. Resolucion #165, Año 1994-1995. Accessed 27 May 2018.
  10. Ponce Salt Industries (DISUR, Inc.). Brownfieldlistings.com Accessed 28 May 2018.
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