Radesca S.A. (also known as JUAN J. RADESCA S.A.[1]) is an electronics manufacturing company in Uruguay, in the neighborhood of Peñarol in Montevideo. The company is the only producer of lead-acid batteries in the country.[2] The factory was founded in 1935 and has been operated as a family business since.[3] As of 2013, they employed 43 people and were protected by the national government as part of maintenance of national industries, especially for national automotive parts.[4][5][6] They gained significant prominence during the Import substitution industrialization policy period during the 1960s.[7]

Their main manufacturing and smelting plant for lead in Montevideo is one of the main sources of lead contamination in the country.[2][7] During the 1960s, the plant employed a number of processes for lead-acid battery recycling that exposed both employees and the local communities to large levels of industrial contamination.[7] Workers would later describe active collusion between doctors, state agencies and the managers to hide the impact of lead on worker health.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Resolución N° 809/990". www.impo.com.uy. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  2. 1 2 3 Renfrew, Daniel (2019). "Chapter One: To Live, Not Only Survive". Life without lead : contamination, crisis, and hope in Uruguay. Oakland, California. pp. 24–50. ISBN 978-0-520-96824-0. OCLC 1102765674.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "Baterías Radesca Historia - Uruguay | radesca.com" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  4. ↑ "Nueve autopartistas nacionales participarán de un proyecto de integración productiva". Uruguay Presidencia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-27.
  5. ↑ Garmendia Ronco, Cecilia Inés; Hernández Llanos, María Paula (2012). "La incidencia del Mercosur sobre competitividad en la producción de autopartes en el Uruguay" (in Spanish). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ↑ Laurenzo, Martín; Cardozo, Nicolás; Fletcher, Federico (2009). "Estrategias competitivas en los mercados de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay, desde la perspectiva de una empreesa uruguaya productora y exportadora de baterías industriales" (in Spanish). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. 1 2 3 Sellers, Christopher; Melling, Joseph (2011-12-22). Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World. Temple University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-4399-0470-1.


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