Quarterly Newsletter | September 2012
Mexico – Not Just for the Big Players
An increasing number of privately-held, midsized companies have expanded their offshore manufacturing presence in response to growing demand for their wares. At first, it was larger multinationals like General Electric, Honeywell, General Motors, Delphi and others that set up manufacturing or R&D facilities in Mexico. For decades, large companies have realized many benefits from a [...]
Aerospace Companies Come To Mexico
By anyone’s standards, Mexico is a major player in the worldwide aerospace industry. In a relatively short time, this country of 113 million people has gone from a minor parts supplier to partner of several large aviation companies by consolidating its aerospace sector and constantly being on the lookout for new business. Mexico has recorded [...]
Nearshoring Fuels Mexican Manufacturing Growth
Security concerns don’t yet appear to be putting a major dent in Mexico’s appeal to manufacturers. Here’s why. Closer, cheaper, friendlier. That might have been the formula underlying moving to or opening manufacturing operations in Mexico. The United States’ southern neighbor offers transportation distances a fraction of those from Asia, a labor force a good [...]
New Daimler Plant Inaugurated in Saltillo
President Felipe Calderon inaugurated a new Daimler plant in Saltillo, Coahuila, which will produce up to thirty thousand Cascadia trailer trucks per year for sale in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Such plant meets the strictest worldwide environmental standards and will employ one thousand seven hundred workers. The President stated that Mexico is a [...]
Audi and Mercedes will soon make a decision on the states to establish
Mexico City- Before this year is over Mercedes Benz and Audi will decide where they will install their respective production plants in Mexico, Hector Lopez Santillana, Governor of Guanajuato, assured. Governor Lopez said that the two assemblers consider Guanajuato as a strong possibility, even if none of them has made an announcement yet. “Both companies [...]
VW Mexico Reaches Production Record
Volkswagen’s history in Mexico began with its arrival in 1954 as part of a major auto exhibition within a large German industrial trade show. The auto show took place at the then recently inaugurated Ciudad Universitaria (University City) in the southern suburbs of Mexico City, a world famous architectural complex and World Heritage Site based [...]
Case Study Axiom: Manufacturing with Entrada Makes a Reel Difference
Weighing China against Mexico as a manufacturing location based on labor costs alone is a false comparison. Mexico’s proximity to the US and Canada, highly competitive cost structure, and transparency make it a winning location, hands down, according to Axiom, the New York-based manufacturer of fishing rods, owned by St. Croix Rods, and Rapsody, Inc. [...]