Ternium Expoagro Awards, an incentive for innovation

"A man with a new idea is crazy, until she triumphs," says a well -known phrase.The best agro -industrial technological developments in Argentina have an international platform in the National Capital of Agribusiness. Los Premios Ternium Expoagro siempre son motivadores ya que se trata de una oportunidad para poner a la agroindustria argentina en una demandante vidriera global.

Companies that receive such a distinction remain before the possibility of being present in Agitechnica, the select sample of the agriculture German (DLG).

Companies that bet on Plot in Expoagro: Seed technology, phytosanitary and fertilizers

The contest organized by Ternium and Expoagro, in collaboration with the DLG, seeks to make visible the ingenuity and creativity of Argentine inventors and developers in the sector.

More than 80 developments were distinguished in the previous six editions in various areas that involve both traditional agriculture and regional economies, increasingly competitive in Argentina.

Winning voices of the 7th edition

Durante la primera jornada de Expoagro 2022 edición YPF Agro, que se realizará del 8 al 11 de marzo en el Predio Ferial y Autódromo de San Nicolás, se entregarán las distinciones correspondientes a la 7° edición, en la cual se presentaron 70 desarrollos de Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Tierra del Fuego, Tucumán, CABA, Santiago del Estero y se distinguieron 17.

El martes 8 por la tarde, entre otras empresas, Plantium y Piersanti recibirán sus respectivas premiaciones.

Premios Ternium Expoagro, un incentivo a la innovación

This is a gold medal, more mention to industrial design and in good agricultural practices, to plantium.The first in the robotic sector by development: Terran - Multipurpose Agricultural Autonomous Platform;and the second in the vegetal protection field for development: Ocuweed - Selective application system using artificial intelligence.

Silver medal and mention to industrial design will also be delivered to Piersanti Platforms in the harvest it.

“Haber ganado nos permitió que se sigan conociendo estas tecnologías, y estamos trabajando para llevarlas al mercado en una etapa comercial”, comentó Fermín Cajen, Proyect Manager de Plantium, y añadió que “mucha más gente empezó a conocer los productos e interiorizarse. Ganamos más reputación como empresa y nos ayuda a consolidarnos con todos nuestros productos”.

Para Cajen, “no existen en el mercado productos con estas características”, citando que el desarrollo que más llama la atención es el Robot Terran."This will allow the producer to perform agricultural tasks without being on the machine", the control is at a distance and thus can better organize his time, he encouraged that they are the first to make those developments in Argentina.The artificial intelligence applied in Ocuweed makes it more efficient and broadly use in diverse tasks throughout the year.

"From the hand of Expoagro we could always participate in the Ternium awards," said Valeria Piersanti, commercial manager of the Noetinger company, province of Córdoba, who for the third time gets these awards.

"The benefit is very important. Nos genera visibilidad y nos ayuda a posicionar los nuevos productos. Además, es una manera de presentarlo en el mercado con mayor rapidez y eficiencia”, sostuvo.

In this case, the prize went to the DRAPER DF 2000 for its regulation system of the cutting angle of the flexible system in an electrical way, without varying the angle of the head of the head.In this regard, he clarified: "The definition of our company is to permanently seek the way to innovate, improve what we have, to give more utility and a benefit to the producer, to our customers".

In Expoagro 2022, the award -winning developments will be exhibited in the space adjacent to the Ternium stand and also, those who obtained gold medal win 75 m2 at Expoagro 2023.

The 8th edition is coming

On Wednesday 9 there will be a talk to promote and encourage companies and industries to present and participate in the 8th edition of the Ternium Expoagro Awards for Agroindustrial Innovation.

The objective of the contest is to highlight the development of a product, or a transformation, improvement, which means the solution for a certain situation or a specific problem that is totally innovative in Argentina and Germany or an improvement of an already made product that gives aconcrete solution to a problem.