SCALING-UP Medtecs Leads Efforts to Scale-up PPE

Production Locally
RESPONSE Pampanga SSF Cooperators Step Up
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Against COVID-19 Pandemic

CHALLENGES CoVid-19 Pandemic Presents Challenge
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to the Zambales Mango Industry

ROLL-IT PROJECT Congress Approves P413 Million for
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2020 Central Luzon ROLL-IT Projects

STREAMLINING PG-Aurora Awards Best Performing
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LGU in the Streamlining Program

Nestlé Philippines Inaugurates
INVESTMENTS Distribution Hub in Tarlac
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UPPC Invests P8.49 Billion in Bulacan

DIGEST
INVEST

Central Luzon Growth Corridor Foundation, Inc.

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2020 1st Semester

Nestlé Philippines
Inaugurates Distribution
Hub in Tarlac
Forturo Food
Manufacturing Opens in
Peñaranda, Nueva Ecija
For turo Food Manufac turing, Nueva Ecija’s first dr ying
facility, opened in Peñaranda, formally registering its
business on Januar y 2, 2020. Located at Par tida Street,
San Jose, the facility occupies an approximately 8,500
square meters of land and employs ten (10) people.
Operating under the direc t super vision of Engr.
Timothy Stephen A. Abello, For turo Food has an initial
investment of P2 million. The company uses spray
dr ying which is an emerging technology and is just
one of the methods utilized in processing food to
prevent spoilage, par ticularly of agricultural food
produc ts.
An innovation projec t of Engr. Isauro “Jun” Abello, the
facility is designed to produce a maximum output of
250 H2O per hour. Their output includes spray dr ying
ser vice and pack aging labor of 30-100 grams. The
clients will provide for Puree (Fruit Puree), Carrier and
Bulk Pack aging.
At present, the company operates daily with a spray
dr yer capacity of 50kg per hour and a dr y blending
facility of 30kg per 30 minutes with an advantage
access of raw materials like onion, garlic, turmeric,
tamarind, calamansi, dalandan, pepper, among others.
The newest distribution hub of Nestlé
Philippines located at San Manuel, Tarlac
was inaugurated on March 02, 2020. The hub
will cater to the Nor thern and Central Luzon.
The ceremony was attended by officials of
the local government unit of San Manuel
headed by Mayor Doña Cresencia R.
Tesoro and former Mayor Benjamin Tesoro,
dignitaries from Nestlé Philippines and
Logistics Proper ties I nc., and officials from
different government agencies like the
Depar tment of Trade and I ndustr y (DTI),
Depar tment of Science and Technology
(DOST ), and Depar tment of Labor and
Employment (DOLE). - Lunabelle A. Sison,
DTI-Tarlac
The company ’s toll manufac turing set up is
50-75 H2O per hour evaporation rate.
The company has tied up with the
Depar tment of Science and Technology
(DOST ) with the following projec ts:
• Fabrication of Spray Dr yers for Regional
Shared Ser vice Facility
• Fabrication and collaboration for Nano -
clay, dex trose and waste water facilities
• Fabrication and collaboration for
M icrobial Colorant
The company also par tnered with the
academe in the conduc t of research works.
Once linked and engaged with manufac turing
company Universal Robina Corporation
(URC ) and the Depar tment of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) for the powderization
of juices, For turo Foods’ full operation will
cover two shif ts and is expec ted to generate
approximately 60 million by nex t year.
The company ’s mission is to provide the
technology to improve Filipino -made
agricultural and industrial produc ts for local
and global competitiveness. I t envisions to
be the number one spray dr ying technology
provider in the Philippines by providing
quality ser vice while advocating for
environmental and social sustainability. -
Honeylen Marie P. Fernando, DTI-Nueva Ecija
UPPC Invests
P8.49 billion in
Bulacan
The United Pulp and Paper Co., I nc.
(UPPC ) is investing P8.49 billion
for the construc tion of its new
paper machine facility in Calumpit,
Bulacan which will nearly double
the company ’s capacity. The new
investment will augment UPPC ’s
produc tion with an additional
220,000 metric tons and will include
a new paper machine, waste plant,
power boiler and effluent treatment
plant.
To date, UPPC has two paper
machines with a combined annual
capacity of 230,000 metric tons
producing both test liner board and
corrugating medium. I t operates
23 baling stations to source locally
recovered paper nationwide.
As the Philippines’ leading
manufac turer of high- quality
industrial grade paper used for
corrugated pack aging produc ts,
UPPC holds the biggest market
share at 22%. I t is a subsidiar y of
SCG Pack aging, Thailand’s largest
pack aging solutions provider, and
is one of the businesses under the
conglomerate SCG.
UPPC ’s investment will not only
benefit the pack aging industr y but
also boost local competitiveness
with improved produc t quality
while reducing impor t volume. The
projec t will also increase waste
paper recover y, thus, contributing
to increased livelihood in the
industr y especially for those
in the grassroots level (bote -
dyar yo collec tors), and promote
environmental preser vation
INVESTMENTS
while assuring a steady supply
of pack aging paper to meet the
countr y ’s increasing demand. Aside
from this, revenue from taxes
and foreign investment will also
increase for the localities and in the
national government.
The industr y produces P25 billion
wor th of paper produc ts yearly
which direc tly and indirec tly
provides livelihood to more than
1.6 million Filipinos within the
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industr y ’s value chain—from
collec tors, junk shops, paper mills
to end-users.
The tentative commercial run of
UPPC ’s new facility is scheduled
on November 2020 but due to the
current situation brought by the
COVID -19 pandemic, operations
might be postponed until nex t year.
The projec t is registered with the
Board of I nvestments (BOI) which
entitled the company for income tax
holiday. They are also applying for
real proper ty tax exemption from
the Bulacan I nvestment Incentive
Board (BIIB). - Jerr y C. Caguingin,
PCEDO -Bulacan

PG-Aurora Awards Best Performing
LGU in the Streamlining Program
The Provincial Government (PG)
of Aurora, through the I nvestment
Promotion O ffice, in par tnership
with the Depar tment of Trade and
I ndustr y (DTI) and Depar tment of
the I nterior and Local Government
(DILG), conduc ted the first
ever provincial Recognition
of Outstanding LGUs in the
I mplementation of the Streamlining
Program in the Issuance of Mayor ’s
Permit during the Aurora Day
Celebration held at the Provincial
Capitol of Aurora on Februar y 19,
2020.
Outstanding local government units
in Aurora were recognized for their
effor ts in achieving investment
growth, expanding business
operations and more efficient
processing of business licenses,
clearances and authorization. They
were also ack nowledged for their
competitiveness and eagerness to
attrac t more economic ac tivities in
Aurora.
STREAMLINING
Ms. Cecilia B. Marino, Aurora’s
I nvestment Promotion O fficer,
presented the awards for
Outstanding Per formance in the
I mplementation of the Streamlining
Program in the Issuance of
Mayor ’s Permit for CY 2018-2019.
She expressed her gratitude
and suppor t to LGUs for their
perseverance in implementing
programs which help ease business
transac tions in the province.
The outstanding LGUs were
awarded in two major categories:1)
I nstitutionalization of Reforms
and First to Establish Elec tronic
Business Permit and Licensing
System (EBPLS) in Aurora which
was awarded to LGU Baler; and, 2)
Simplification and Standardization
of Business Permit Licensing System
for New Registration and Renewals
as well as in I mproving Customer
Relations and First LGU to Establish
Ideal Business One Stop Shop
(BOSS) in Aurora which was awarded
to LGU Dingalan.
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Baler was also recognized for
rank ing within the top 10 of
the Cities and Municipalities
Competitive I ndex (CMCI) among
3rd to 6th Class Municipalities in
the previous years, par ticularly from
2017-2019.
Cer tificates of recognition and
cash incentives were given to the
winning LGUs. Present to give
the awards were Ac ting Governor
Christian M. Noveras, DTI-Aurora
Provincial Direc tor Edna D. Dizon,
DILG-Aurora Provincial Direc tor
O felio A. Tac tac and Provincial
I nvestment Promotion O fficer
Cecilia B. Marino. - April Joy D. Abat,
Aurora I nvestment Promotion O ffice
 ROLL-IT PROJECT
Congress Approves P413 Million for
APPROVED PROJECTS
AURORA
TOTAL AMOUNT REMARKS
2020 Central Luzon ROLL-IT Projects
Improvement of Dingalan-Umiray Provincial Road connecting
Brgy. Umiray, Brgy. Ibona and Brgy. Matawe DTI Shared Service
1 Facility (SSF) and Dingalan-Gabaldon National Road in support P30,000,000 Included in GAA 2019 A total of thir teen (13) Central approval of only six (6) projec ts
of SSF cooperator, SME & beneficiaries Fruits and Coconut- By-
Luzon ROLL-IT projec ts amounting amounting to P135,000,000. Two (2)
Products, Dingalan, Aurora
to P413,315,000 was approved in of these road projec ts in Mariveles
BATAAN
the General Appropriations Ac t and Bagac, Bataan have been
Construction/ Improvement of Bagac-Mariveles By-pass Road (GAA) for 2020, which was legislated completed as of the star t of the
Connecting Freeport Area of Bataan in support to Mix-used
2 P50,000,000 Included in GAA 2019 by the House of Representatives year. Meanwhile, the remaining
Industry- Electronics, Garments, Fashion Bags, etc., at FAB,
Mariveles, Bataan and published by the Depar tment projec ts from Aurora and Pampanga
of Budget and Management (DBM) had an average completion rate
BULACAN
on Februar y 2020. of 41.05% prior to the onset of
Rehabilitation/ Improvement of Matungao-Guiguinto Provincial the COVID -19 pandemic which
Road connecting McArthur Highway and Bantayan Road in
support of Electronic Manufacturing, Chemicals, Furniture and
The approved projec ts under caused delay in the program’s
3 P15,000,000 Re-submission the convergence program of the implementation.
Garments, and Agri-Business Industries in Barangays Malis,
Panginay, Poblacion, Tabe and Tuktukan, in the Municipality of Depar tment of Trade and I ndustr y
Guiguinto, Province of Bulacan (DTI) and the Depar tment of Public For fiscal year 2021, DPWH did
PAMPANGA Works and H ighways (DPWH), more not download new program
Construction of East Circumferential Road connecting MacArthur commonly referred to as ROLL-IT guidelines, thus, no new projec ts
4 Highway to Angeles-Magalang Road in support of handicraft, P15,000,000 Re-submission or Roads Leveraging Link ages of were requested from the
furniture and food processing industries, Angeles City, Pampanga I ndustr y and Trade, are mostly re - proponents. However, in keeping
Construction of NLEX- SCTEX Connecting Road in support of submissions that did not make the with the program’s goal to develop
5 furniture, IT-BPM, hotels, garments and textile industries, Angeles P50,000,000 Included in GAA 2019 previous GAA’s cut or continuing infrastruc ture leading to key
City, Pampanga appropriations—projec ts which industries and economic zones
Widening of Philippine Export Zone (PEZA) Road and have been previously included in the area, the ROLL-IT Regional
construction of road connecting Angeles-Magalang Road to in the GAA 2019 for multi-year Technical Work ing Group (RT WG)
6 East Circumferential Road in support of handicraft, furniture, P28,515,000 Included in GAA 2019 funding. Four (4) new projec ts prioritized the endorsement of
manufacturing and garments and textile industries, Angeles City,
endorsed by the Bases Conversion continuing projec ts.
Pampanga
and Development Authority (BCDA)
Construction of Angeles City toll exit connecting NLEX and SCTEX were also included in the approved I n the first half of 2020, the RT WG
7 in support of handicraft, furniture, manufacturing, hotel, IT-BPM, P60,000,000 Re-submission

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garments and textiles industries, Angeles City, Pampanga
list. was able to endorse four teen
(14) projec ts from Central Luzon
Improvement and Widening of Zeppelin St. and Clark Perimeter
Road connecting MacArthur Highway to West Circumferential
An increase in the total amount of amounting to P918,490,000 for
8 P25,000,000 Re-submission approved projec ts in Central Luzon inclusion in the 2021 budget, with
Road in support of IT-BPM, hotels, garments and textiles
industries, Angeles City, Pampanga was noted for fiscal year 2020 one (1) additional re -submission
9 Camachilles-Sapang-Biabas-Bical Road, Mabalacat City, Pampanga P35,000,000 Endorsed by BCDA compared to 2019 which saw the from San Luis, Aurora. Said projec ts
Clark North Access Road from MacArthur Highway to P. Balagtas
are still subjec t for review of the
10 P25,000,000 Endorsed by BCDA Central Technical Work ing Group
Avenue, Mabalacat City, Pampanga
11 Sta. Ines-Atlu Bola Road, Mabalacat City, Pampanga (Package 1) P25,000,000 Endorsed by BCDA
(C T WG) and fur ther deliberations by
the House of Representatives.
Improvement and Construction of Road connecting West DTI-DPWH
Circumferential Road to East Mega Dike Bacolor Side going to
12 San Fernando and Bacolor in support of furniture, garments and P15,000,000 Re-submission Convergence Program Since the convergence program’s
textiles and processed meat products industries, Angeles City, creation in 2016, a total of P1.068
Pampanga on Road Connectivity billion wor th of road projec ts have
TARLAC for Industry and Trade been approved for construc tion
in Central Luzon. - R ya Bianca G.
13 Bamban Seamless Road, Bamban, Tarlac P39,800,000 Endorsed by BCDA
Development Ar tates, DTI Region 3
CoVid-19 Pandemic
Presents Challenge
to the Zambales
Mango Industry
Zambales is conveniently located
between mountain ranges and the
West Philippine Sea, blessed with
fer tile volcanic soil. The province is
famous for its best tasting mangoes
which are har vested from as early as
December up to May. The Carabao
Mango locally k nown as Dinamulag
is the most popular variety of mango
found in most of the towns of
Zambales. O f the four teen (14) strains
of Dinamulag Mango, the Sweet Elena
strain locally found in Zambales has
been declared by the Depar tment of
Agriculture (DA) as the sweetest mango
af ter comparative study. I t is the star
of all summer mango har vests in the
Philippines.
The province is one of the countr y ’s
top producers of the national fruit.
There is an aggregate total of 263,287
mango trees spread out over 7,500
hec tares of plantation. A projec ted
har vest of 15,797,220 k ilograms was
expec ted by the Provincial Agriculture
O ffice (PAO) due to good weather and
the absence of bug infestations. At
the expec ted average cost of P100.00/
k ilo an estimate sale amounting to
P157,922,000.00 was expec ted.
As in any sustainable business, there
are cer tain threats that affec t the
income of growers which they can
prepare for. The Corona Virus Disease
2019 (CoVid-19) Pandemic is not one
of them. The changes in the market
environment caused by this pandemic
was unprecedented and took growers
to suffer great losses.
For the first quar ter of the year 2020, a
number of major events were expec ted
to happen in Zambales. However, in
obser vance of safety precautions,
these events were ultimately cancelled.
The Central Luzon Regional Athletic
Association (CLRAA) Meet and the
Dinamulag Festival, alongside the
season’s usual events. The CLRAA
Meet 2020 would have been held on
Februar y 22-28, 2020 at the Zambales
Spor ts Complex, I ba. The event was
expec ted to draw in 14,000 delegates
from across the region. Following
this event would have been the holy
week on April 5 to 11, 2020. Because
it is a non-work ing holiday star ting
Thursday, many would have scheduled
trips to the province’s beach resor ts
on these dates. Last is the Dinamulag
Festival held annually to celebrate the
bountiful har vest of the province’s
mangoes. The festival was planned
to be held from April 29 to May 2,
2020. Several ac tivities that promote
CHALLENGES
Zambales’ ar t, culture, talent and
agriculture were lined up for the four
(4) day festivities. I n suppor t to the
mango industr y a Mango Congress
would have been held for mango
growers in addition to tours for visitors
which would include mango pick ing
where a tourist buys an average of 2
k ilos of the fruit.
The cancellation of summer events
has created a surplus in supply and
losses to sellers due to the absence
of tourists and non-mobility in the
local market. Some mango sellers
who stocked up on their fruits had to
discard crates upon crates of overripe
mangoes. Agustin Pampuan, a mango
seller and grower, lost over Php300,000
and had to either feed the surplus to
pigs or throw away a staggering 8,400
k ilos of mango during the pandemic.
Some chose to sell their mangoes at a
low price of 30php per k ilo just to keep
their stock moving.
To overcome the challenges caused
by this pandemic, some moved to
online selling and found success. Ms.
Evelyn Grace, President of Samahan
ng Magmamangga ng Zambales,
supplied mangoes to high- end markets
in Manila where Zambales Mangoes
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command a premium price. She said
that some customers ordered 20 to 30
crates for reselling while some ordered
k aings in affluent neighborhoods. Her
usual 25% profit margin jumped up to
80% this year.
I n suppor t to local suppliers, PAO
issued food passes to those who are
qualified so they may supply to areas
outside Zambales. The Provincial
Government of Zambales, led by
Governor Hermogenes E. Ebdane
Jr., is work ing constantly so that all
stakeholders affec ted by the pandemic
can bounce back . - Mar y Ann V.
Magsanop and Kevin L. Nacabuan,
Provincial Government of Zambales
Pampanga SSF OneDOST Against COVID -19 program good use all their scrap fabrics and

Cooperators
Step Up Against
COVID-19 Pandemic
Responding to the government ’s call
for the produc tion of face shields and
Personal Protec tive Equipment (PPEs)
for front liners and health workers in
the countr y ’s fight against COVID -19,
K apampangan Shared Ser vice
Facility (SSF) cooperators began their
produc tion of face shields, PPEs and
face masks.
and the USAID -STRIDE (Science,
Technology, Research and I nnovation
for Development).
The outputs of the two SSF FabLabs
were distributed to government
institutions such as: the Jose B. Lingad
Memorial Regional Hospital ( JBLMRH)
in the City of San Fernando; Diosdado P.
Macapagal Memorial Hospital (DPMMH)
in Guagua, Pampanga; Dr. Paulino
J. Garcia Hospital in Cabanatuan
City, Nueva Ecija; 4MDRRMO -Bacolor,
Pampanga; Bureau of Fire Protec tion
(BFP) Bacolor, Pampanga; DHVSU
Security Personnel; and DHVSU RRMO
Task Force COVID -19.
Reusable Face Masks
RESPONSE
transformed them into good quality
face masks. During the quarantine
period, produc tion was done at home.
They then moved to the SSF facility
when the restric tion was lif ted while
still obser ving health protocols.
The World Health Organization ( WHO)
had once pointed out that washable
and reusable face masks made from
cloth can be used as an alternative to
surgical masks which are prioritized
for use in hospitals by front liners and
medical personnel.
Truly, these SSF Cooperators are
putting their best foot for ward in
responding to the challenges amidst
the pandemic. - Emil Paolo B. Galang,
DTI-Pampanga

Face Shields and PPEs Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, four

Philippine Science High School- Central
Luzon Campus (PSHS- CLC ) and Don
Honorio Ventura State University
(DHVSU) Main Campus, both of which
are FabLab (fabrication laborator y)
SSF cooperators, developed design
prototypes for aerosol boxes and
sanitation booths and embarked on the
produc tion of PPEs in addition to the
regular face shields.
Pampanga SSF cooperatives saw an
oppor tunity to add reusable and
washable face masks on their regular
produc t lines. These cooperatives
are the Yellow Ladies of Mandasig
( YLM), Women’s Unity Multi-Purpose
Cooperative ( WUMPC ) and Samahang
K ababaihan Pangk abuhayan ng
Dulong I log (SKPDI) in Candaba, and
the Kooperatiba ng mg K apatirang
K apampangan para sa K abuhayan at

The FabLabs developed two designs of
face shields—3D printing, and acr ylic
forming. To ensure the unhampered
produc tion of the face shields which
will be distributed to Mabalacat City,
City of San Fernando, and Bacolor, the
face shields were manufac tured at
the FabLab Managers’ homes during
the quarantine period and at the
Depar tment of Science and Technology
(DOST ) Regional O ffice -3 Conference
Room.
Produc tion was sustained through
the donations from scholars/students’
parents in the region, the emergenc y
subsidy of DOST-III through their
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K aunlaran Multi-Purpose Cooperative
(5K MPC ) in Apalit.
The initiative of the cooperators to
shif t a por tion of their capacity to
the produc tion of face masks was
suppor ted by the Depar tment Trade
and I ndustr y (DTI) Pampanga thru the
provision of capacity building training
for the produc tion of face masks and
PPEs.
The face masks produc tion had
managed to keep the cooperatives and
their members afloat in this difficult
time while contributing something to
the government and the community.
More so, they were able put into
Medtecs Leads
Efforts to Scale
Up PPE Production
Locally
With a strong presence in almost all
continents worldwide for over 30
years now, Medtecs I nternational
Corporation Limited (MICL) has been a
leading supplier of personal protec tive
equipment (PPE), medical tex tiles
and integrated hospital ser vices for
large healthcare providers. Medtecs
and its subsidiaries (the Group) are
strategically located across Asia — in
the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore,
Cambodia, and the People’s Republic of
China.
I n the Philippines, Medtecs’ PPE
manufac turing facilities have been
around since 1989 in Mariveles, Bataan.
The company has been consistent in
giving relief and aid through donation
of funds, goods and medical supplies
to those in need: from the SARS
outbreak in 2003, the typhoon Yolanda
in 2013, the recent Taal Volcano
eruption early this year, and the
present pandemic.
During this time of pandemic, Medtecs
is playing front and center in providing
high- quality PPEs to healthcare
personnel worldwide, as it has been
doing in previous viral outbreaks like
SARS, H1N1 and Ebola. Medtecs Group
Chairman Clement Yang said, “ This
time we have stepped up effor ts to
help fight the corona virus. We have
donated PPE and vital medical supplies
wherever we operate, including Taiwan,
the Philippines and Cambodia. As
our ongoing commitment to suppor t
communities during the pandemic, we
have also reached out to help Germany,
I taly and Japan where there were
unmet PPE needs.”
Medtecs Group is at the forefront
in the fight against COVID -19
in the Philippines, as President
Rodrigo R. Duter te expressed his
suppor t for locally manufac tured
personal protec tive equipment (PPE).
Depar tment of Trade and I ndustr y
(DTI) Secretar y R amon Lopez repor ted
that while there had been only one
expor ter in Bataan (Medtecs) that
locally manufac tures PPE during the
onset of the pandemic in Februar y, the
countr y now welcomes a unified effor t
from several manufac turers to produce
high- quality PPE.
With Chairman Yang’s appointment
as the founding chairman of
the Confederation of Philippine
Manufac turers of PPE (CPMP),
SCALING-UP
Medtecs seeks to help the Philippine
government in establishing PPE
specifications that meet global
standards. The CPMP was established
through the coordinated effor t of the
DTI and the Confederation of Wearable
Expor ters of the Philippines (C WEP).
Composed of five companies that
repurposed their facilities to make PPE
for healthcare workers, CPMP can now
make 57 million pieces of face masks
and 3 million coveralls and isolation
gowns for the frontlines. Their goal is
to build PPE produc tion capacity in
the countr y and to ensure compliance
and quality of epidemic prevention
produc ts available in the local market
and ultimately to safeguard the health
and safety of the Filipinos.
Another silver lining to be considered
in this tr ying time was the selec tion
of Medtecs by the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) as one of the suppliers to
produce protec tive gowns, coveralls
and shoe covers. With a contrac t award
amounting to $5 million, around
1.2 million medical garments were
distributed to frontline health workers
in 11 developing member countries.
Medtecs Group is scaling up its
operations to meet the global PPE
demand. Specifically, Chairman Yang
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has made it his mission to assist
the Philippines to have more than
enough supplies of PPE through the
development of a local stock pile
model, which Medtecs has already
helped Taiwan and Singapore to
develop and which have helped both
countries to avoid PPE shor tage and
meet emergenc y needs. As Chairman
Yang so aptly emphasized, “[ The
Group’s mission is] Providing world-
class medical produc ts, ser vices
and protec tive wear to ensure that
ever y worker returns home safe.” -
Christine Yang, Medtecs I nternational
Corporation Limited
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CLGCFI
INVEST Growth Corridor
Foundation, Inc.
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The Central Luzon Growth Corridor Foundation, Inc. is composed of the seven (7)
Provincial Governors of Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac
and Zambales; Department of Trade and Industry Undersecretary for Industry and
Investments; and Department of Trade and Industry-3 Regional Director.

It is mandated to provide policy decisions and to facilitate the planning,

EDITORIAL TEAM coordination and monitoring of investment and trade-related projects of Central
Luzon.

Its major initiatives are geared towards the creation of a business and
investment-enabling environment, promotion of Central Luzon to local and
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Editor-in-C hief international investors as the logical destination for business, promotion and
development of small and medium enterprises, and capacity building for
investment promotion partners.
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Ma naging Editor

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RYA BIANCA G. A RTATES
Content Editor President, CLGCFI
Governor, Tarlac

BA RRY J. PAN GILINAN

La yout Hon. GERARDO A. NOVERAS Hon. AURELIO M. UMALI
Governor, Aurora Governor, Nueva Ecija

A PRIL JOY D. ABAT, LGU-Aurora Hon. ALBERT S. GARCIA Hon. DENNIS G. PINEDA
JERRY C. CA GUIN GUIN, LGU-Bulaca n Governor, Bataan Governor, Pampanga
M A RY ANN V. M A GSANOP, LGU-Za mbales
KEVIN L. NACABUAN, LGU-Za mbales Hon. DANIEL R. FERNANDO Hon. HERMOGENES E. EBDANE, JR.
CHRISTINE YAN G, Medtecs International Corporation Governor, Bulacan Governor, Zambales
EMIL PAOLO B. GAL AN G, DTI-Pa m pa nga
LU NABELLE A. SISO N, DTI-Tarlac
RYA BIANCA G. A RTATES, DTI-Regional Office 3
Contributors CEFERINO S. RODOLFO JUDITH P. ANGELES
Member, CLGCFI Member, CLGCFI
Undersecretary, DTI Regional Director, DTI-3
LEO NIL A T. BALUYUT
Editorial Tea m Adviser
OIC-A ssista nt Regional Director, DTI-3

SECRETARIAT
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