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• 10 / 25 / 2006

To support this effort, Cuba will set in motion this quarter investments of millions of dollars to complete resources for projects.

This program is a priority of the country, said Construction minister (MICONS), Fidel Figueroa. He added that MICONS is working to set up a sustainable construction materials industry in each province.

In addition to building houses, the program includes 250 thousand rehabilitation and conservation actions supporting about one thousand social projects with the production of materials, hand labor and technical means.

With a new plant in Havana that produces 2.2 million square meters of flooring yearly, MICONS will produce seven million square meters of flooring a year.

Contributing to the plan are 10 more tile factories, two plants that increased their productive capacities and the incorporation of tile industry.

There is also a technological line to produce 52 thousand high quality sanitation fixtures.

Cuba expects to apply a technique developed by its engineers to manufacture ceramic bricks that are cheaper and with a resistance similar to concrete, Figueroa explained.

MICONS also expects to obtain roofing and intermediate floor components from expandable polyethylene and maintain the volumes of prefabricated coverings as well as produce six million square meters of asbestos cement roofing.