This launch “opens new horizons for the naval industry and this industrial investment is a clear example of the reactivation that we are experiencing in construction, agriculture, mining, the automotive sector, oil, among other sectors”, Kulfas added.
During the act, in which the minister toured the industrial plant, the authorities highlighted that the company’s objective is to supply the local and regional market, strengthen the profile of national steel products and substitute imports.
The company uses its products for metal structures, wind towers, gas pipelines, oil storage tanks, agricultural machinery, mining, bridges and ports.
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The company was also awarded the RINA Rules (Registro Italiano Navale), Grade A certification, which supports the requirements applicable to the resistance, toughness and weldability of the product used by the naval, river and maritime industry.
“Despite the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, much more is being produced today than when we started the administration. We have already recovered 70,000 jobs and we have taken on new challenges”, highlighted Kulfas after touring the company’s industrial plant in Villa Constitución.
At the event, Kulfas considered this launch as “a milestone for the naval industry because the ships that are going to be manufactured in Argentina are going to have naval sheet metal produced here in Villa Constitución”, and anticipated that a bill is being worked on to the development of this sector.
“We are going to work on a law for the development of the naval industry so that all these measures become State policy. It makes no sense that we do not have a strategic view and give away a market that Argentina can occupy effectively, efficiently and generating tens of thousands of jobs and prosperity for the country”, he added.
Kulfas was accompanied by the Secretary of Industry, Knowledge Economy and External Commercial Management, Ariel Schale; the undersecretaries of Industry, Julieta Loustau, and Commercial Policy and Management, Mariana Pereyra; and the National Director of Buy Argentine and Supplier Development Program, Julián Hecker.
Also present were the Secretary of Industry of Santa Fe, Claudio Mossuz; the mayor of Villa Constitución, Jorge Berti; the Country Manager of RINA, Gustavo Villen; and the president of the Chamber of the Argentine Naval Industry, Silvia Martínez.
The company
The president and CEO of Laminados Industriales, José Pablo De Martino, thanked the minister and his work team for their presence and stated: “We think that industrialization is a substantive part of achieving development. A structural change would germinate in the majority of all of us the conviction to defend our industrial production, which is everyone’s”.
The company, which started its activities in 2008 with an investment of US$50 million, has the capacity to produce 200,000 tons of rolled sheets per year. Its industrial building has more than 15,000 square meters of covered area in which a rolling mill for hot-rolled thick plates is installed.
Source: Ambito
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