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President Alberto Fernández will inaugurate this Tuesday the new building of the Materials Science and Technology Research Institute (Intema) in the Buenos Aires city of Mar del Plata, accompanied by the Minister of Science, Daniel Filmus, and the head of the Conicet, Ana Franchi .
As officially reported, the event will take place from noon and will serve to open up a space that generates basic and applied science of the highest level in all fields of science of the materials, in which more than 4,000 million pesos contributed by the Conicet and more than 988 million pesos were invested by the Ministry of Science.
The new Intema building was built on UNMdP land and occupies an area of 13,500 square meters with eighty offices, thirty laboratories, five pilot plants, an auditorium, meeting rooms and a multipurpose room.
It has five floors, the last one will have a Technological Platform that will provide a work space and technical support to companies associated with research groups for the development of projects with potential impact on the productive sector.
The Intema is a double dependency institute between the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP).
It works together with the productive sector -from small industries to large industrial companies- to develop new products, processes and technologies in the field of metals, ceramics and plastics.
It has a team of 250 people made up of 120 researchers, 80 interns and 50 technicians and technical and management support professionals.
It has 12 divisions: Metallurgy, Thermoplastic Composite Materials, Ecomaterials, Applied Electrochemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Ceramics, Catalysis, Sustainable Materials, Thermorigid Structural Composites, Nanostructured Polymers, Electronics, and Biomedical Polymers.
