Dies former President company Metaldom

Armando Fernández Hidalgo-Gato, who was President of the complex metallurgical Dominican S.A (Metaldom) since 1969 until 1992, when he made his retirement, died yesterday in the city of Miami, to the 83 years.

The Mr Fernández was born in Guines, Cuba, in 1928. Graduated lawyer and practiced in one of the most prestigious law firms in Havana until that in 1964 he emigrated to the United States, where he lived in the cities of Atlanta and Chicago.

Subsequently, were requested his services in Dominican Republic to work in one of the companies investors who later founded Metaldom. Thereafter he would begin his outstanding work in the development of the steel industry of the nation. Don Armando reaches Metaldom in 1967 from the hand of the first President of the company, Mr Rafael Fernández mount, exercising as Adviser, and the Presidency and the Board of Directors of the company.

In 1969 took the Chair u000aof Metaldom after the death of Fernández mount. Is converted in a pioneer of el development industrial local that began in those years.

Don Armando stood out as a leader in the company due to his human qualities and his approach with all employees of the company, which maintained a magnificent relationship and those who remember it with pleasure and admiration. Within other outstanding tasks that developed in the private sector in the country, he was for several years a member of the Board of Directors of the Banco Popular Dominicano.

Before reaching Dominican Republic, don Armando had married Lady Emma Ruiz, with whom he had two daughters, Emma and Merci, the first born in Cuba and the second in the city of Miami in the United States. Don Armando was always concerned about keeping your family close-knit.

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