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Medtecs Philippines launches environment friendly fabrics

   Hotels and hospitals can now save a lot of money, time, and energy on the daily laundry of their linens with Medtecs Philippines two new fabrics.

   Inspired by the hotel and hospital industries’ demands for their linen’s brighter look, environment care, and revolutionary energy savings on weaving and dyeing, Medtecs manufactured two new fabrics using sophisticated water jet looms, specifically targeted to lessen the daily laundry cost.

   “We are taking design of our fabrics to a new level by featuring an expanded array of rich, lustrous fashion driven, energy saving technologies, textures and patterns durable enough for today’s environment problem world,” Akhmad Irgashev, Medtecs’ executive vice president said.

   The two newly launched energy saving fabrics aptly named Bataan Silk and Bataan Water, which were invented by Medtecs in its manufacturing plant in Bataan, were proven to save up to 40 percent of its washing time.

   Due to the newest technology that Medtecs created with the new fabrics, Bataan Silk and Bataan Water are easily cleaned and washed, saving the hotels and hospitals, which washes their linens on a daily basis.

   This means a hotels and hospitals’ housekeeping departments could save 40 percent on their daily washing budget as the time, pressure, water, soap and efforts are lessened.

   In this time when Philippines is facing another energy crisis, the two new energy saving fabrics is a must-have for hotels and hospitals.

   Presently, hotels and hospitals use the classic linens that takes a lot of time, effort, and energy to wash everyday. Not to mention the wear and tear of the classic old linens that go through the daily washes.

   The two new brand of fabrics, which were created using Medtecs’ water technology washes easily and are cleaned fast, and don’t wear and tear easily as they are built for the daily wash.

   While Bataan Silk is more beautiful and luxurious than Bataan Water which is better fitted for budget-conscious business, both fabrics used Medtecs’ unique water technology and are top savers of the environment.

   Medtecs Philippines, with its manufacturing plant in Bataan, and business office in Makati City, is an integrated healthcare products and services provider in the Asia Pacific Region, and a leading manufacturer and distributor of medical consumables for the global health industry. Medtecs group started its operation in the Philippines in 1989, and has since then established a strong presence in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific Region.

  Aside from the Philippines, Medtecs has also its offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Cambodia and the People’s Republic of China.

   For more information, please visit our website at http://www.medtecs.com.tw/

U.S. Government Launches Cities Development Initiative in Batangas City

 BATANGAS CITY- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City Government of Batangas to unleash the city’s full economic potential through USAID’s Cities Development Initiative (CDI) on May 3 here.

    USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg and USAID/Philippines Mission Director Gloria D. Steele signed the MOU with Mayor Vilma Dimacuha. The event was also witnessed by Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Undersecretary Merly M. Cruz and other Batangas City officials and representatives from the private sector, academia, and civil society organizations.

    “This partnership aims to address key constraints to economic growth and investment in Batangas City. The CDI will unlock and maximize the city’s growth potential through significant collaboration in areas such as education, energy, environment, health systems, and economic growth and investment,” Deputy Administrator Steinberg said.

    DA Steinberg is in the Philippines to attend the Asian Development Bank’s 45th Annual of Meeting of the Board of Governors. He will be among the panelists in the Development Partners Session- Cooperation in a Changing World on May 5 where he will share his insights on recent changes in the global aid architecture and its implications for development cooperation in Asia.

    Mission Director Steele said, “CDI takes a unique and cross-cutting approach to promoting inclusive growth. Together with Iloilo City and Cagayan de Oro City, USAID has selected Batangas City to become a ‘center of growth’ because of its demonstrated economic potential.” Identified as one of the urban growth centers in the Philippines, Batangas City has an international port and recently-completed access roads that provide a faster and more efficient route for exploring and penetrating markets in nearby provinces and regions.

    “The initiative is built on the premise that economic growth and job creation are closely linked to urban development, where cities act as engines of economic growth,” Director Steele said. “The CDI seeks to promote economic growth outside of Metro Manila to disperse economic opportunity in the Philippines as it moves from a low growth path to a higher, sustained, and more inclusive growth trajectory in line with other high-performing emerging economies.”

    The Cities Development Initiative is an integral part of the U.S.-Philippines Partnership for Growth (PFG). Launched in November 2011 by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, PFG is helping the Philippines achieve its high growth potential by creating a more transparent, predictable, and consistent legal and regulatory regime; fostering a more open and competitive business environment; strengthening the rule of law; and supporting fiscal stability.

   “The PFG will be carried out in the spirit of mutual responsibility, embracing commitments by the Philippine government to take the necessary actions to promote inclusive growth,” Director Steele said. (Source: USAID/Philippines )

P200 BILLION AVAILABLE TO FUND K-12 PROGRAM

 Batangas Second District Congressman Hermilando I. Mandanas presented to the Department of Education (DepEd) the  P200 Billion funding program to upgrade the basic education in the Philippines, as contained in the House Resolution (HR) No. 158, which was adopted by the House of Representatives last year.   

   

 The P200 Billion fund, Mandanas said, is  available to construct the backlog of 200,000 classrooms, furnished with chairs, tables, blackboards, electric fans, etc.   

   Another 50,000 e-learning centers with at least 1 Million computers, with connectivity, can be constructed for the approximately 25 Million elementary and high school students, now under the K12 Program of  DepEd.  The 500,000 teachers and administrators will also be provided with their individual computer.  At the moment, there is only one computer for every 250 public school students and only 2% of the teachers are computer literate.

   The implementation of the P200 Billion upgrading of basic education will be undertaken by the Local Government Units (LGUs), who expect to receive a total of P500 Billion from unreleased Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA).  

   Mandanas said he is optimistic that the Supreme Court will rule favorably on his Petition for the release of P500 Billion IRA backpay to Provinces, Cities, Municipalities and Barangays on or before July, 2012.   Of this amount, 40%, or P200 Billion, will be used to upgrade the standards of basic education in the Philippines as contained in HR No. 158.  The remaining P300 Billion of the P500 Billion IRA backpay will be used to improve the devolved health services and for local projects like roads, water system, housing, calamity mitigation, livelihood, safeguarding the environment and other much needed local projects.

   The Department of Education will assist the P200 Billion Funding Program by instructing its Regional, Division and District personnel to provide all the information needed by the LGUs to implement this program, and to request for the new schoolrooms and other facilities to upgrade the standards of basic education in the Philippines using the IRA backpay upon its release.

Mandanas, who is a son of a public elementary school teacher, and also graduated from a Barangay Public Elementary School, emphasized that, “the P200 Billion for Basic Education will raise the competence and dignity of the Filipinos.  The Philippine economy is primarily based on the quality of citizenry.  All Filipinos, including our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and those in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry, will enhance their capabilities and will then be able to work and earn enough to reach and meet the increasingly high cost of respectable living in the Philippines”.