By Danielle Laurencio Gómez.

Las Tunas.- While evaluating institutional projects that may have an economic, social or environmental impact to include them in the 2020 economy plan, Aceros Inoxidables (Acinox) from Las Tunas is preparing to achieve the category of High Technology Company.

The strategy is integrated into the process of applying the new science, technology and innovation (CTI) policies, which is why since last May 20, the Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (Citma) launched the call to respond to situations in food production, climate change, housing construction, health and education, and be able to use the results of such research in favor of local development.

Amara Morales Cordero, head of the CTI unit in Las Tunas, told the Cuban News Agency that the province has been assigned one million pesos to financially support the progress of these projects.

The expert also meant that the existence at Acinox of two science doctors, 49 masters and the innovative activity of the company with respect to the automation of the steel casting processes in the bar mill, demonstrates that this entity is the one that exhibits better conditions in the province to become a High Technology Company in the medium term.

The innovation, led by the automation engineer Guillermo González Yero, reduced costs and interruptions in production, made it more efficient, ensured the quality of the product and humanized the work, in addition to reducing the number of faults in the emptying machine and therefore favored the production sequence of the steel mill.

From Citma, the specialist pointed out, the projections of the territory focus on the rearrangement of the entities of science, technology and innovation, which includes two study centers of the University of Las Tunas, that of Energy Efficiency and Technological Processes. , and that of Pedagogical Studies.

Similarly, it is expected that the connection between universities and companies will allow the creation of science and technology parks, Morales Cordero explained.

New science, technology and innovation policies range from industrial property, food safety and metrology to the preservation of historical memory.