"The best technology in the world": Piñera inaugurates Falabella's modern distribution center | Economy



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After a year and a half of construction and after an investment of 100 million US dollars, Falabella inaugurated Thursday its new distribution center located in San Bernardo, the most modern in Latin America and promised to generate about 1,450 direct and indirect jobs.

The launch was led by President Sebastián Piñera who claimed to have "the best technology in the world" and He emphasized the environmental qualities of the facilities, with its 3,000 Square meters of green space, its LED lamps and recycled materials used by the company.

"The technological revolution is a big wave, you can get ready to surf the Internet or you can simply turn your back and wait for the water to come rolling," the president told CNN, before to return to the periphery, and thus the news, the discoveries, the advancements we have arrived with much delay, but we can say today that we are at the center of the world. "

Currently" we have access to incorporate in Chile in real time and in real time. At the same time as the most advanced countries, new technologies will change to improve the lives of our compatriots, "he added.

  Sebastián Beltrán | UN Agency
Sebastián Beltrán | Agencia UNO

The new plant of 47 000 square meters has 264 robots indicated by the company, those whose task is to store and extract products of medium and small size so to download them in another sector, where they will pbad the conveyor belts must be clbadified by region of destination and finally be shipped.

From this moment it will be distributed in the stores of the country, for purchases in line and products offered via the platform Linio acquired by Falabella in August

With regard to employment, the company badures that it will create 900 direct and indirect jobs and plans to incorporate 550 new calves employees in 2019.

The Minister of Economy, José Ramón Valente, also participated in the inauguration. Nicolás Monckeberg, Minister of Labor, San Bernardo Mayor Nora Cuevas, Falabella Retail President Carlos Heller and Falabella Retail General Manager Gonzalo Somoza.

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