The Integral Security Locksmiths Project signs the first commercial contract with its largest client in Las Tunas, the Commerce, Gastronomy and Services Business Group, for which it will manufacture nearly a thousand safes.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Commerce, Gastronomy and Services Companies handle large amounts of money, so the protection of the cash collected in these facilities is a priority in this province.

“Today the sector has 1,148 units that handle cash. Therefore, one of the main needs, based on the monetary ordering of the country, demands the security of that money. We have a demand for 990 safes and today we do not have that,” Rolando Rodríguez Rojas, general director of the Commerce, Gastronomy and Services Business Group in Las Tunas, says.

The establishments in the sector receive the first safe-deposit boxes produced by the only self-employed project of integral security locksmiths approved in the country.

“We began innovating designs that had to do with the characteristics of Commerce and its warehouses in intricate rural areas. Through the Department of Foreign Trade, Foreign Investment and International Cooperation, we managed to link up with the companies that would supply us with essential raw materials. We speak, for example, of the liquefied gas containers, to obtain its sheet, which meets the characteristics of the standards according to its resistance and durability; and with the Raw Materials Company of the territory, we obtained the necessary aluminum and other materials that are essential for these productions, Edwar García Ramírez, a self-employed entrepreneur, says.

To the traditional designs of safes, others were added, taking advantage of the available supplies in the province itself. These non-state workers - three in total - operate under the CEPWAR brand, paving the way for import substitution. Products made from liquefied gas containers that have already lost their use-value to supply fuel can be seen in their catalogs, as García Ramírez notes.

“Due to the project they have presented to us, we are providing them with all the cylinders that we dispose of due to quality aspects for gas storage. We evaluate the need they have to obtain these containers for their productions, destined to safeguard the cash of the companies of the Las Tunas territory,” Rolando González Labrada, head of the Liquefied Gas Group, adds.

Thus begins the path that leads CEPWAR to pioneer the effort to build alliances between the State and the self-employed.