A Year of Expansion for Entrada Group and Mexico: Mexico’s Strong 2015 is a Good Sign for Your 2016 Growth

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Highlights for Mexico in 2015

Auto sector expansion continued, with facilities for Toyota (new $1 billion manufacturing plant in Guanajuato) and Ford (new and expanded engine and transmission plants in Chihuahua and Guanajuato, respectively, at a total cost of $2.5 billion) announced.
Mexico’s aerospace sector grew to more than 300 U.S. and European manufacturers. This is up from 100 companies in 2004, with total investments nearing $1.4 billion. Manufacturing investments in Mexico have tripled over the past 11 years.
Mexico was on track to export 170,000 heavy trucks and buses in 2015, the highest ever, up from just 1,000 heavy trucks approximately 20 years ago.
Mexico ranks eighth in the world with nearly 114,000 graduates per year in engineering, manufacturing and construction.

Highlights for Entrada in 2015

We inaugurated a new manufacturing campus in Celaya, Guanajuato, joining our original Zacatecas campus (which now is over 1 million square feet of manufacturing space). The Celaya campus will eventually be a $50 million investment that encompasses 15 buildings, seamlessly integrating into our manufacturing support platform.
System-wide, our clients grew their hours worked and staff headcount by 28%. Clients added 110,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space, and two new Entrada Group buildings were completed, totaling 144,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space
Some of our customers deployed more sophisticated processes. For example, one supplier added welding and sub-assembly operations to its wire harness production, and another augmented their operations with a rubber extrusion fabricator, exemplifying the trend of more sophisticated, local engineering in Mexico, with less reliance on American or European know-how.
We led a week-long, 4-state strategic Mexico manufacturing tour for German suppliers, guiding them through the heart of the country’s fastest-growing industrial area and sharing our Mexico manufacturing expertise.