Sisaltex

The sisal is a plant original from Yucatan, Mexico. It is also called sosquil and green gold. Centuries before the arrival of the Spaniards, the mayans used the fiber of the yucatecan sisal in their activities, without sisal, it had not been possible to construct the temples and buildings that are characteristical of this culture, a pre-Columbian civilization. The Spanish conquerors gave little importance to the sisal, however the Indians continued with its crop and rudimentary industrialization, called ci' and itsTzoztzqui fibers (agave hair) that the Spaniards turned into sosquil. Fray Diego de Landa said: "The natives of Yucatán have a country weed that their raise in their houses and produce cañamo with which they make infinite things for their service". In the advanced colonial period, the culture and commerce of sisal was done as an additional work in the haciendas with the purpose of obtaining the necessary fiber for its own consumption of ropes and bags. The sisal boardings began in 1780. The main items were hammocks, bags and camp beds. In 1875 the patent of the first efficient defibering machine was granted to Jose Esteban Sol’s, some time later, the steam machine united to the defibering machines. In 1878 Cyrus McCormick invented the wheat sheave machine, which used sisal thread denominated " Binder Twine ", this estimulated the crop,and as consequence the use of mechanical elements in the sisal production was impelled. In the World War I the demand of products processed with sisal increased in a considerable amount, with an accelerated increasement since the World War II, giving origin to the creation of numerous factories. In June of 1964, Cordemex initiates the reconstruction and modernization of the industry, contructing new buildings, and buying the most advanced equipment . Cordemex was known as the world«s biggest and most modern industrial center of hard fibers. Cordemex was disincorporated from the Government in the year of 1991, same year in which the company Manufacturas de Henequén de Yucatán, S.A. of C.V. (factories formerly called "Threads and Riggings " and " Coats and Fabrics") with the intention of safeguarding, and preserve the sisal activities and to promote its active participation in the private sector. In the year of 1993, the factory Hilos Agrícolas de Henequén de Yucatán, S.A. de C.V. ( the formerly "Lourdes" factory) was acquired from the state governement, and changed the name was changed to Hilos Agrícolas de Yucatán, S.A. de C.V. Mission: To be accepted and recognized as number one in the manufacture of fiber products of the sisal Principles: To recognize the client like the reason of being of the group. To only accept what we can fulfill. To recognize the importance of the group work and the veracity of the communication. General Qualities: Good work group, knowledge of the product and the market, been accustomed to presencein the markets, solid companies, integrated plants, disposition to the change. Politics: To make products of sisal in the required quantity, of the specified quality, to the smaller cost and in the dates asked by the client, like result of the sum of individual efforts at all the levels of the organization

SISALTEX
Manufacturated by:
Manufacturas de Henequen de Yucatan
Av.Felipe Carrillo Puerto.Km.8.5 Carr.Merida-Progreso.Cordemex
Mérida,Yucatán,México. C.P 97310

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