Spa Wood Products, a wood-drying company located at Houston, East Bank Demerara, aback of Gafoor’s Group of Companies Limited, is a fledgling operation which Prime Minister Samuel Hinds visited on Wednesday and encouraged the owner to advertise his operations.
The company is partly owned by Michael Vieira. After getting a first-hand look at the many features of the company, which came into existence in 2006, the Prime Minister urged Vieira to move in the direction of advertising, GINA reported.
“I urged him to advertise it because we have to move in Guyana from just using green, raw wood to using kiln-dried wood, certainly for furniture and floors and internal work and also for export. Some places are calling for the wood to be kiln-dried in a certain way so that certain types of pests and fungus would have been killed so that you can feel comfortable,” the Acting President said.
He considers Vieira’s operation a good first step, noting that it is an example of the spin-off benefits from mining, GINA stated.
Michael Vieira, who is also the owner of a few mining operations in the interior, said that business is slow at present but he is confident that with the advice to advertise, it will improve significantly.
