The Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) formalized that he was elected as president of the Entity Executive Committee for the next two years the businessman Martín Rappallini, in replacement of Daniel Funes de Rioja. The brand new head of the entity claimed “matching the rules between those that import and those produced in the country” and recognized the importance of “macroeconomic order.”
“Within the framework of the General Council, the UIA appointed Martín Rappallini as president of the entity for the 2025-2027 period. The election act was attended by the participation of More than 200 direct entities counselors and regional throughout the country, “said the Fabrile Central in a statement.
When the businessman assumed he highlighted the unity of industrialists “to achieve the objectives of this new stage.” “We come to defend and value the industry, with responsibility and commitment. Our fundamental objective is to advance in the construction of proposals and in the active search for consensus, ”he said.
The brand new head of the Central Fabrile indicated that “the Argentine industry is the way to multiply all the opportunities we have in agriculture, mining, services and energy.” “Multiply opportunities is to generate value chains. For that to happen, we need to produce in Argentina again to be a good business,” assured
Industrialists ask for a “new productive contract”
Regarding the competitiveness agenda, Rappallini addressed the integral look of the UIA for the coming years when ensuring that “Argentina needs to design a new productive contract. ”
“A contract that Combine the macroeconomic order with a vision of strategic development. Let the pendulum between extreme protectionism and opening without rules. That recognize the industry as a fundamental pillar for job creation, The generation of currencies and territorial development, “he said.
The manager added that the entity’s proposal and its new authorities “is to work in a regulation that generates equal conditions for those who produce in our country. ”
“For too long, a set of distortions that were suffocating their ability to compete was loaded on the national industry. High fiscal pressure, chronic inflation, lack of productive financing, labor rigidities, high logistics costs, legal insecurity, trial industry, inefficient regulations And an unstable macroeconomic structure are some of the liabilities that have taken away competitiveness. And, yet, the industry continued, ”said the businessman.
The new president of the UIA also indicated that the world is “living a historical moment within the framework of a new global order, where the production recovers its economic, strategic and geopolitical prominence ”he added that “what the world has understood -and Argentina must assume urgently- is that the only way to enhance a solid and dynamic industry is matching the rules of the game between those who produce locally and those who do it abroad. “
Previously, Daniel Funes de Rioja closed his stage as president of the UIA, putting in value institutional continuity: “This new cycle is a continuation of the institutional life of the UIA, with the same work, commitment, technical excellence and industrial conviction that has been part of the identity of this business union for so many years,” he said
How the new driving is integrated
The vice presidents of the new Executive Committee are:
- David Uriburu (Argentine Steel Chamber),
- Rodrigo Pérez Graziano (Association of Automotive Factories)
- Modesto Magadán (Industrial Union of Córdoba)
- Martín Cabrales (coordinator of food products industries)
- Guillermo Moretti (Santa Fe Industrial Federation)
- Luis Teranlarz (Industrial Union of Catamarca),
- Isaías Mauricio Drajer (Federation of Pharmochemical Industries and Agricultural Health)
- Daniel Urcia (Industrial Union of Córdoba).
- Eduardo Nougués (Jujuy Industrial Union) will continue as secretary and Silvio Zurzolo (Association of Industrialists of the Province of Corrientes) will be the new treasurer.
The trajectory of the new president of the UIA
With a long career as an industrial, Rappallini, 56, is one of the owners of Grupo Alberdi, which includes Alberdi ceramics, and Alberdi Developments -a division specialized in industrial parks. He began his activity in 1993 when, together with his brother, they acquired Alberdi ceramics through a preventive contest and ten years later they managed to transform a company with financial difficulties and technological backwardness into a leading firm in the market of floors and coatings.
He is president of the Industrial Union of the Province of Buenos Aires (UIPBA) since 2018. In the UIA, he was president of the Pymi department and territorial development of the UIA between 2018 and 2021, treasurer between 2021 and 2023, and regional vice president from 2023 to date.
Source: Ambito
