| Kaman Aerostructures: Now in MEXICO! |
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Aircraft bearing and components manufacturer Kaman Aerospace Corporation announced a $10 million investment in Chihuahua City, where it will employ 500 workers in a new plant to be completed this fall.
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Kaman will manufacture structural components and do metal component detailing.
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Robert Kanaskie, the company's president, said Kaman felt drawn by Chihuahua City's infrastructure, workforce skills and the city and state governments' support.
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| Mexico is taking back manufacturing work |
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- MONTERREY, Mexico — When Cessna Aircraft Co. sought a low-wage country in 2006 where it could manufacture airplane parts, its first instinct was to go to China.
- After struggling to find a way to ship supplies to the Asian country in less than a month, the Wichita, Kan.-based producer of light airplanes discovered a better solution just across the border: Mexico.
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| Canadian Manufacturer Increases its Stake in Mexico |
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- Mailhot Industries
- By Danny Kucharsky
- In April this year, at perhaps the lowest point during the global economic downturn, Terrebonne, Quebec-based Mailhot Industries officially opened a new $10 million plant in Mexico. Mailhot designs and manufactures hydraulic cylinders for a variety of applications, from construction and mining to refuse and recycling collection.
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| The U.S.-Mexico Border Is Safer Than You Think |
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- Crime along the U.S.-Mexico border has been cited to justify everything from Arizona’s new immigration law to Congress’ decision Tuesday to spend another $600 million on border enforcement. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has referred to “mayhem” and “headless bodies” found along the border, while Sen. John McCain said that the failure to secure the border “has led to violence -- the worst I have ever seen.”
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| Airbus employees celebrate 40 Years of Innovation with their families |
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- In a tremendous event encompassing five sites in Toulouse, Airbus celebrates today ‘40 Years of Innovation’ in Toulouse together with some 145,000 employees, families and friends. Airbus top management and Airbus pioneers deliver moving testimonies that marked some of the major steps through the manufacturer’s 40 year history.
- “Our comprehensive family of aircraft has revolutionised aviation and its continued success in the market worldwide has led us to our global leadership position today. Over 40 years, Airbus people have developed break-through technologies and innovations that have become world standards.
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Gary Swedback, President, NAI Mexico
- Will Boeing create a new aerospace cluster in Mexico to compete with Bombardier and the new Japanese regional jets?
- Why did Fisher and Paykel from New Zealand choose Baja California over Southern California?
- Should GM close its Silao operation if KIA and Hyundai are making plans to manufacture autos in Mexico?
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| U.S.-Mexico: Trade and Investment at a Glance |
| Thursday, 20 May 2010 10:24 |
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Washington, DC
May 19, 2010
- The United States is Mexico’s largest trading partner and largest foreign investor. Mexico is the third largest U.S. trading partner after Canada and China, and is the U.S. second largest foreign supplier of petroleum. The U.S.-Mexico border is one of the busiest, most economically important borders in the world, with nearly one million legitimate travelers and nearly a billion dollars worth of goods legally crossing the border each day. Eighty percent of this trade crosses the land border on trucks and trains. Border states are not the only ones that benefit from this dynamic trade relationship--a total of 22 U.S. states have Mexico as the number one or number two destination for their exports, including California, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
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The northern Mexican city has a modern infrastructure ideal for foreign and local companies, making it the second best city to do business in Mexico, reports Contenido magazine. A close coordination among governments and ambitious planning have gone a long way in industrializing the city and the State.
Gerardo Perez Castillo walks down Libertad Street in the historical section of Chihuahua City. At the corner, a traffic display informs him that he has 30 seconds cross the six lanes of Venustiano Carranza Avenue. Perez is heading to his job at Foxconn, a company assembling cell phones for Motorola and one of the 80 foreign assembly plants operating in the city’s seven industrial parks. Chihuahua City took solid steps to industrialize during the last 35 years as it let loose from the State’s traditional livestock and mining industries.
Today, 14,961 businesses of every industry operate in the city and its outskirts.
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