HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 9 (ACN) The 2020 National Quality Award of the Republic of Cuba will be presented tomorrow in a ceremony at the José Martí Memorial.
After a rigorous process of selection, only two of the ten initial applicants remain standing: Empresa de Investigaciones y Proyectos Hidráulicos, from the province of Holguín, and Unidad Empresarial de Base No. 3, run by La Estancia S.A., a food and beverage production plant in the province of Sancti Spiritus.
They both achieved the most outstanding results evaluated by professionals in the sector, according to Sc. D. Nancy Fernández Rodríguez, director-general of the National Bureau of Standards (ONN).
Data provided by the ONN, the main promoter of the National Quality Award, an incentive granted by the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, was established in 1999 for relevant results in the implementation of total economic efficiency management.
Despite the restrictions imposed by COVID-19, the number of competitors reached 10 as in previous years, including seven service providers and three production enterprises from seven provinces.