Brazilian Standards Organization seeks exchange with Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba, May 17 (ACN) The Brazilian National Standards Organization (ABNT) stated its interest in promoting scientific-technical links with Cuba’s National Bureau of Standards (ONN), according to ABNT Director-General Ricardo Fragoso.

“We can exchange more projects and technologies with our colleagues of the ONN,” remarked the Brazilian official, who is attending the celebrations in Havana for the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Cuban Institute of Standardization, Metrology and Quality Control, including an international colloquium on the role of standardization during and after the pandemic.

He referred to the need for joint action and cooperation based on national experience and international practice, given the benefits of globalizing the knowledge derived from the digital era to cope with COVID-19.

On his end, José Andrés Zaldívar Chacón, director of Cuba’s Metrology Research Institute, remarked that, despite the U.S. blockade, the national metrological infrastructure has developed in terms of the inspection, calibration and testing processes implemented in the public health system and other fields.

The main event for the five decades of these activities in Cuba will be held on Friday along with the commemoration of World Metrology Day, observed on May 20 to hail the anniversary of the Metre Convention, signed in Paris in 1875.