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“Yung talent mo, tama ng puhunan sa pagnenegosyo mo,” (Your skill is enough capital to start a business) was what a brother (priest) from Don Bosco told Chris Pingol’s grandfather Mamerto Pingol, when the latter was having apprehension over how to get started in the business of metalcraft that largely produces church-related products.

Thus, was his motivation to put up a metalcraft business which manufactured the censer used in the religious incense of Pope Francis’ masses in Tacloban, Luneta and University of Sto. Tomas.

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The province of Ilocos Norte is among the “brightest” in the Philippines, as every barangay now enjoys the benefits of electricity.

Playing a key role in the province’s rural electrification program is a forestry technology called high pressure sap displacement that is used in treating electric poles on-site.

Developed by the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI), this method prolongs the service life of power and telecommunication poles. It is also used in treating bamboo poles for fishpens, poles for bridges, wharves and mining operations, and pole-type building materials.

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Mrs. Fructoso Lana, owner of Frux Peanut Butter, is going nuts. It’s almost incredible that technology intervention worth P 541,600 has spread her income base to yummy figures.

According to Lana, Frux has increased its production by 136 percent and sales by 142 percent as the company is now able to produce quality peanut butter in different sizes such as 300g, 250g, 200g bottles and 50g that are widely distributed to established local markets. Among Frux Peanut Butter’s clients is Manolette Bakeshop with 200 branches all over the country.

At the closing ceremony of 2014 Mindanao DOST Science and Technology Fair at SMX Convention Center of SM Lanang in Davao City last year, Frux Peanut Butter was recognized for successfully implementing SETUP.

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STA. MARIA, Isabela -- A ceramic water filter facility outfitted with high-performing equipment from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)’s program for small businesses, dubbed SETUP or Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program, was blessed recently  during the Cagayan Valley leg of DOST’s “Science Nation: Agham na Ramdam” nationwide roadshow.

SETUP offers assistance to micro, small and medium enterprises via funding, technology upgrade, and manpower training, to improve their production and product quality, and be at par with other small businesses in the regional and national levels.

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For 54 years now, DOST’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) - thru its wood identification service – has been helping both local and foreign archaeologists in establishing the identity of wood specimens recovered from their study sites.

Explains wood anatomist Dr. Ramiro P. Escobin, “Our clients are mostly researchers from the National Museum and the University of the Philippines Archaeological Studies Program who bring to us for identification either charred, desiccated, or waterlogged wooden artifacts.”

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