CARMAHE has been with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the Presidential Residence
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At the Presidential House, the President of our country received a group of leading industrial and businessmen affiliated with CAME, the Argentine Association for Medium Sized Companies to celebrate the industry day. It was a working meeting of more than one hour and a half, lead by the President and the head of the sector association, Osvaldo Cornide.
Mr. Pedro Cascales, Lic. took part of this meeting on behalf of CARMAHE, and was the first to present the reality of the machine tools and technologies for production sector and the current situation highlights. He also emphasized points calling for change.
Our Minister of Economy and Public Finances, Mr. Amado Boudou, our Industry Minister, Ms. Débora Giorgi, Lic; and the undersecretary of Management Control and Coordination for the Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services, Mr. Roberto Baratta, Lic. joined our President for the meeting.
CAME’s delegation consisted of 38 authorities from different regional and sectorial Chambers and Associations.
In his speech, Mr. Cascales call attention to the growth of the sector caused by the country’s economy growth in the last years. He also pointed out that a 20% growth is forecasted for 2011 according to estimates made by the companies affiliated with CARMAHE.
Furthermore, CARMAHE’s President stressed the importance of installing machines and production assets in our country, emphasizing that ‘ONE machine incorporated to our national production equipment equals to ONE direct job position at least, generating more exports and import substitutions if such machine is national; though the same happens when machines are imported to access high technology, also required to be installed in Argentina.’
Cascales specified to our President that CARMAHE had designed a re-industrialization plan for machine tools, and had submitted it to the industrial authorities. This plan is currently being analyzed by national authorities. To this effect, he explained that ‘our sector is not competing for budgets, but for production, for more investments and technical and professional training.’
