In 2020 and 2021, the Ministry of Productive Development assisted 247 companies in 14 provinces with $6,290 million in Non-Refundable Contributions (ANR) and $600 million in credits with a rate discount, which promoted investments of $18,250 million in sectors such as energy, mining, transportation, health, aerospace, green technology, and water and sanitation, among others.
It did so through the National Program for the Development of Suppliers (Prodepro), which is under the purview of the Ministry of Industry.
“During 2020 and 2021, we promoted the growth of productive capacities in national companies through Prodepro. We assisted more than 270 projects in 14 provinces per $6.29 billion in NRA Y $600 million in credits with rate bonus. This also allowed us to promote investments of $18.25 billion,” Industry Secretary Ariel Schale told Télam.
Between the calls of the two years 506 projects were presentedof which 270 of 247 companies were selected, which meant a State investment of $3,579.7 million during 2020 and $3,310.3 million in 2021.
“This management has deployed an unprecedented financing agenda for assistance and productive support. Today Productive Development has 50 financing lines of different amounts for different sizes of companies from different sectors and destinations. And all of this is the product of an industrial policy. We are participants in a firm reactivation process,” Schale said.
“Having industry in Argentina is first of all a political decision that is expressed daily in our offices with the application of industrial policies”Ariel Schale, Secretary of Industry
What is the Supplier Development Program?
Prodepro aims to develop national suppliers in strategic sectors to boost industry, diversify the national productive matrix through the generation of greater value and promote competitiveness and productive transformation in strategic sectors.
The program aims to strengthen the capacities of the productive sector through the promotion of investments, the improvement in the productive management of companies, the increase in innovative capacity and technological modernization, with the purpose of substituting imports and promoting the generation of qualified employment.
Sectors benefited in 2020
• The projects of energy and mining received $1,697.8 million (48% of the total granted by the Program)
• The sector rail and transport received $798.2 million (23% of the total granted by the Program)
• To projects of Health they gave him $786 million (22% of the total)
• The sectors aerospace and naval received $160.6 million (5% of the total)
• The sector of defense and security received $81.1 million (2% of the total)
IN 2021
• Railway and naval, aerospace and sustainable: $706 million (22% of the total)
• Mining and hydrocarbons: $583.5 million (18% of the total)
• Health: $579.7 million (18% of the total)
• Auto parts and motorcycle parts: $345 million (11% of the total)
• Founders: $261.3 million (8% of the total)
• Industry 4.0: $212.7 million (7% of the total)
• Green technology: $218.8 million (7% of the total)
• Science and Technology: $182.2 million (6% of the total)
• Defense and security: $126.7 million (4% of the total)
• Water and sanitation: $52.4 million (2% of the total)
“In these first years of management, we reversed the deindustrialization process that left us when we took office. Today our industries have life ahead of them, they are producing, investing and creating jobs. We have already recovered 70,000 jobs,” stressed the head of Industry.
Why are there already investment projects to produce #GreenHydrogen In our country?
Because hydrogen can be extracted in many ways, but to produce it sustainably, renewable energy sources and political decision are needed.
And in Argentina we have both? pic.twitter.com/0xmat4BtMe
— Ministry of Productive Development (@produccion_arg) May 20, 2022
Geographic distribution 2020-2021
• Buenos Aires province: 45% (125 projects for $3,024.2 million)
• Cordoba: 16% (42 projects for $1,115.1 million)
• Federal capital: 16% (38 projects for $1,054.8 million)
• Santa Fe: 14% (37 projects for $927.7 million)
• Mendoza: 3% (eight projects for $177.4 million)
• Neuquen: 1% (four projects for $78 million)
• Black river: 1% (four projects for $76.4 million)
• San Juan: 1% (one projects for $61.3 million)
• Saint Louis: 1% (two projects for $60 million)
• Santa Cruz: 1% (one projects for $60 million)
• Between rivers: 1% (three projects for $48.6 million)
• Tucuman: 1% (two projects for $45.4 million)
• The Rioja: 0.5% (one projects for $32.3 million)
• Chubut: 0.4% (two projects for $30.4 million)
Why are there already investment projects to produce #GreenHydrogen In our country?
Because hydrogen can be extracted in many ways, but to produce it sustainably, renewable energy sources and political decision are needed.
And in Argentina we have both? pic.twitter.com/0xmat4BtMe
— Ministry of Productive Development (@produccion_arg) May 20, 2022
“Through Prodepro we also grant credits with subsidized rates, destined to the purchase of capital goods, technology, software, molds and dies, and certification of products and industrial processes. We are promoting the growth of productive capacities in national companies of strategic sectors Schale said.
He stressed that “with this year’s call We grant incentives for almost $4,000 million to strategic sectors for its ability to generate added value, quality employment, substitute imports and thus continue deepening industrialization throughout the country”.
“Having industry in Argentina is first of all a political decision that is expressed daily in our offices with the application of industrial policies,” the official concluded.
Maroni: “It is a strategic tool for the development of SMEs”
The National Program for the Development of Suppliers (Prodepro) was a positive experience for the companies that applied for the calls made since 2020, in which the importance of a present State and the articulation of the public and private sector was evident. .
This was indicated to Télam by Laura Maroni, a member of the Advisory Board of Management of SPI Astilleroswho stressed that Prodepro “is a strategic tool for the development of SMEs and the productive sector.”
SPI Astilleros is a company from Mar del Plata that is dedicated to the construction, repair and transformation of ships and naval artifacts.
“Our experience with the Prodepro line has been extremely positive and highlights the importance of a present state and the articulation of the public and private sectors,” said Maroni.
He stressed that “it is important to bear in mind that the main objective of Prodepro is to develop national suppliers in strategic sectors to boost the industry, diversify the national productive matrix through the generation of greater value and promote competitiveness and productive transformation in strategic sectors. “.
“Based on the State’s decision to define the naval industry as a strategic sector, we were able to move forward and participate in the Program”said the executive.
He specified that during 2021 the presentation made by SPI to access the program “was aimed at improving the competitiveness of our company through innovation in environmentally sustainable processes, and technological modernization to complement the investments to increase productive capacity that the shipyard was carrying out, making the processes more efficient”.
In addition, he stressed that “the project was evaluated by INTI and the process was agile: from the presentation to the disbursement of the funds, a period of approximately four months elapsed, allowing us to achieve equipment and technology according to the development that the naval industry requires”.
LA RIOJA INDUSTRIAL PARK
One of the beneficiaries of Prodepro was the La Rioja Industrial Parkwhich has 52 companies and more than 4,300 jobs.
In 2020, it received an ANR for $60 million with which paving works and the installation of a fiber optic network were carried out; and others were executed to promote the insertion of women in the industrial sector, such as a training center and a lactation room.
It is expected that in 2022 the financing granted by Productive Development to this park will reach 0 million.
One of the companies that is inside the Park, Tetra Packannounced in early May an investment of .500 million for the modernization of its manufacturing plant for packaging material and straws, which will allow it to reduce energy costs by 28% and reduce the generation of greenhouse gases.
Another is colortexwhich also announced at the beginning of this month a new lamination production unit in the textile and clothing factory that will produce, under the Bullet Stopper brand, new products aimed at defense and security industrial policy, a textile applied basically to covers and bulletproof vests, all products that Argentina imported until today.
