The rapid development of the cold sector in Lucena is not without its problems. The main one is the lack of land to house this type of factory, which requires large surfaces that do not exist in any municipality, not even in the capital. The Keyter Group is forced to work in 14 separate warehouses, a logistical nonsense. It will solve the nightmare with a large factory next to the current Infrico, for which it has needed its own urban development project that already has the initial approval of the City Council.

“But that doesn’t solve the problem for companies that want to come to Lucena; there’s no ground for them,” Manuel Servián says with some anger. The Lucentine Consistory has already twice refused to load large industrial plots, and prefers to leave those developments in the hands of the companies.

The businessmen lucentinos of the cold and the climate are somewhat surprised by the comparison with the sector of the furniture, that neither in its better moments never arrived to handle the figures of the cluster AFAR, neither in growth nor in invoicing -perhaps yes in the contracting-. It explains it with forcefulness Manuel Servián: “Lucena has not reinvented itself with the cold. That was already here. The sector of the air conditioning has not occupied the niche that left the industry of the wood, because it existed from much before although it is less known -perhaps because it does not manufacture consumer goods-. The only thing with which the companies of the cold have remained has been the seat of the old Technological Center of the Wood, now seat of AFAR. And thank goodness, otherwise that building would have added to the long list of public works victims of the crisis.”