Bowen says Shortage Partly due to Maintenance  

If you have noticed that recently, the shelves at your neighborhood corner store have had significantly less Bowen and Bowen products in stock, then you are not alone.  Due to the ongoing energy crisis, the company was asked by Belize Electricity Limited to temporarily power their operation via generators, resulting in the slowing down of production. We spoke with Bowen and Bowen’s Corporate Relations Manager, Rosanna Villanueva, who said that the shortage is also due, in part, to maintenance.

 

Rosanna Villanueva, Corporate Relations Manager, B&B Ltd.

“Production has been down from what it should be. We’ve also had the case where we have scheduled production, scheduled maintenance on some of our production lines. So we schedule maintenance way in advance. These are machines and they need to be maintained so that they can continue working. And so when we have a line down for maintenance, and then on top of that, we’re asked to come off the grid, it does tend to compound the issue. We also had that happening. We expect within the next couple of weeks to have all our maintenance completed. We are hoping to have the third generator back online or online again within the next week or two. So all of that will assist us in getting back to normal. And of course, as I said, the less we have to come off the grid, the better. But I think that goes for all Belizeans, not just Bowen and Bowen. So we’re looking forward to things settling down and getting back to normal.”