Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan Executive wants to pay special attention to the conformity of domestic production to increase confidence and better compete in the Regional Free Trade Zone, the Director General of the National Institute of Quality Infrastructure (INIQ), Carmo dos Santos said on Friday in Luanda.
Speaking at the launch and presentation of the Roadmap for Verifying the Conformity of Construction Materials and Products, he emphasized that this process will reduce imports.
He explained that the aforementioned roadmap, worth 150 million kwanzas, stems from Angola’s attentiveness to the circumstances of the domestic, regional, and global markets.
He announced that the process will initially cover 30 listed products, which will be verified over the next 12 months.
‘The process is dynamic and continuous, the 30 products are listed now, but eventually throughout this year we may include some products. I appeal to construction materials in the sense of joining,’ he said.
According to the director, compliance verification aims to confirm the aptitude of a particular product or process, based on its technical requirements and specifications, with advantages for those who produce, but, and above all for those who buy and consume.
He added that they are more competitive, safer and more possibilities to achieve new markets, especially external markets, considering that the quality of products, when technically measured and declared, is crucial for circulation in commercial circuits.
He recalled that other products, such as the area of food and drinks, will also deserve, in a short pass, special attention from the government and the iniq, in the context of their attributions and the activity plan.
The official stressed that the process will help the country reduce imports, increase exports, raise the confidence and safety of products produced in Angola, and just like imported ones.
To this end, it has known that soon the sector will also have a similar script for food and drinks, with the same fundamentals.
On the other hand, the National Director of Industry, Evaristo Baptista, understands that it is an important moment in the country, considering that most of the products of national production do not yet have a certificate.
‘We understand that our country really already has a wide range of products, not only linked to the construction sector, but also from other sectors, I refer to the food sector, sector linked to drinks, minerals, plastics and many others,’ he emphasized.
The representative of the Angola Construction Materials Association (AIMCA), JoseĢ Sousa, considered that this process represents a point of some turning into the positive sense of improving the compliance of materials, giving them more visibility, making the representatives of companies reflect on the path that has been traced.
The launch of the verification script, carried out by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce through the National Institute of Quality Infrastructure (IniQ), includes at least 30 materials from the construction sector of which stand out steel, metal profiles, cement blocks, plate, cement, ready concrete, constituents of aggregates, electric, plastic, stone, adjuvants and mortars, structure projects, structure bituminous, among others.
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