Within the framework of a Congress that sought to defend the importance of having an aggiornada industry to the demands of the current world, Entrepreneurs of various productive activities highlighted sector development niches, with focus on innovation and value aggregation to the extraction of natural resources. The event included harsh criticism of the national government, but also summoned to review the errors of industrial policies taken by previous administrations.
This Thursday the first Productive Congress for Development, launched by productive missiona network of more than 100 professionals with experience both in public management and in the private sector. The event was attended by different representatives of the business, union and academic sector, as well as figures of the policy of diverse ideological spectrum, such as Eduardo “Wado” by Pedro or Facundo Manes.
The activity had a talk by Daniel Schteingart, researcher and director of productive planning in Fundar, and three panels: one composed of provincial officials, and two by representatives of different productive sectors. In one of these last two, called “Natural resources and industry: a future in common”the relevance of adding value to the production of the two “star” sectors of the current Argentine economy: the energy and the miner was discussed.
The industry as a key actor in the value chains of energy and mining
Horacio TurriExecutive Director of Pampa Energyhe was the first speaker to take the floor. In his speech, he highlighted the firm’s participation in the First Liquefied Natural Gas Project (LNG) from the country, which will add US $ 2,000 million annually to exports.
The businessman stressed that “Suppliers have managed to become reliable for everything Vaca Muerta needs“And that almost all inputs have national manufacturing, except for some segments such as those linked to electronic treatment. In addition, he stressed to the Local Brea Production as another of the objectives to be developed For the area of Oil & Gas, taking into account that Brazil today imports large amounts of that oil derivative from other countries.
In second instance, Alejandra CardonaExecutive Director of the Argentine Chamber of Mining Entrepreneurs (CAEM), marked meaningless meaning in the fact that Argentina is one of the few countries that has a long -standing nuclear production, but does not have the Technology to extract uraniumone of the fundamental minerals for such production.
In addition, Jorge Sciancommercial director of Tycsa, designer company and team manufacturer for the two sectors in question, and representative of the Association of Metallurgical Industrialists of the Argentine Republic (Adimra), he said that “the great challenge is that the development of natural resources becomes the development of national suppliers”, something that happens for example in the Fortín de Piedra project.
In that line, he marked the Need for a policy that prioritizes the integration of Argentine industrial suppliers, an element not contemplated in the best way in the regime of incentives to large investments (Rigi) of the government, since “today, only 20% of the supply is local.”
Innovation, a need for both emerging industries and for traditional sectors
In the last of the panels, entitled “The future of the Argentine industry: innovation, design and added value”focused on the specialization opportunities that exist both in traditional industries and in emerging activities. For this, Graciela Ciccia, Director of Innovation of Grupo Insud, Carolina Castro, president of Guidi Industries, Mariano Bosch, CEO of Adecoagro, and Claudio Drescher, director of the Argentine Chamber of the clothing, participated.
As representative of one of the traditional industries, DRESCHER He argued that “Argentina must be Latin America in design and clothing “since it cannot compete” for price, but for creativity and quality” “My brands always pointed to design, innovation, quality. With that I contribute to development, generating formal employment”He stressed, clarifying that their products in general point to medium-high purchasing power sectors.
In turn, Castro He warned that, although the specialization of the local automotive industry in pick-ups gives him a certain comparative advantage, In the global “electrification and digitalization process that the automotive sector is going through, Argentina is on the limit”. In that context, he assured that the country requires a public-private articulation that is thinking about how new technologies are installed in the country.
For its part, Bosch said that “Agro can be a platform for innovation“And that” inside there are extraordinary developments of start-ups “, while Ciccia The Importance of having state incentives to boost biotechnologyone of the sectors in which Argentina can be a leader.
Build a 21st century industry, the proposal of a cross and federal congress
With the slogan “Manifest for an industrialism of the 21st century”Productive mission launched this Congress Under the premise that industry is a key engine for developmentsomething that was demonstrated both in China’s advance and in the response of the West, but with a call to review the errors of the productive policies of the past.
In that line, they argued that In Argentina the debate is still caught between two visions of the last century: one that argues that “the best industrial policy is what does not exist”, and another opposite that seems to start from the hypothesis that “everything can and should be produced internally.”
On the one hand, they highlighted the importance of efficiency, productivity, innovation and international insertion when thinking about the future industry. Even so, the emphasis of the speech was put that “without an industry, there is no way for development” and what “With macro stability it does not reach “.
“If stabilization is done at the expense of the productive tissue, the damage is deep and persistent. Industrial, technological and labor capacities are destroyed rapid and rebuild slowly, or are lost forever“They warned.
Source: Ambito
