Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose del Castillo has announced the opening of a new government office dedicated to promoting quality production. The Dominican Institute for Quality (Indocal) replaces the former Department of Standards and Quality Systems (Digenor).
Indocal was created in Law 166-12 and will be responsible for regulating quality in the production of goods and services. Minister Del Castillo says that industries and small business need to comply with the requirements of today’s globalized markets. Manuel Guerrero, the director of Indocal, invited all sectors to participate in efforts to improve quality in the Dominican Republic.
For the occasion the government organized a first International Symposium on Quality with the theme “Functional Quality Infrastructure” that took place on Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 May at the Hotel Embajador in Santo Domingo, attended by 400 representatives from the DR and 18 other countries. Germany was the guest country, and was represented by the Institute of Metrology (PTB) that shared experiences on metrology, normalization, accreditation, evaluation and tests.
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