{"id":110729,"date":"2018-03-21T07:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=110729"},"modified":"2018-03-21T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:05:49","slug":"president-medina-inaugurates-new-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/21\/president-medina-inaugurates-new-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"President Medina inaugurates new factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110759\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110759\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Medtronic-Presidency-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Presidency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, 20 March 2018, President Danilo Medina inaugurated the fourth factory of the multinational company Medtronic that manufactures high technology medical devices in eastern Santo Domingo. This investment is reported to be US$46 million.<\/p>\n<p>Around 450 new jobs were created at the newest plant located in the San Isidro Free Zone factory. Overall, the company employs 3,688 persons in plants in the San Isidro Free Zone.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Paolo Tolari said the new plant brings the company\u2019s investment in the country to approximately US$160 million. He says the new plant reaffirms the company\u2019s confidence in the Dominican Republic as an ideal place to do business.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/mas-empleos-e-inversiones-danilo-asiste-inauguracion-cuarta-planta-dispositivos-medicos\" target=\"_blank\">Presidencia <\/a><\/p>\n<p>21 March 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 20 March 2018, President Danilo Medina inaugurated the fourth factory of the multinational company Medtronic that manufactures high technology medical devices in eastern Santo Domingo. This investment is reported to be US$46 million. Around 450 new jobs were created at the newest plant located in the San Isidro Free Zone factory. Overall, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/03\/21\/president-medina-inaugurates-new-factory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}