The Japanese automaker Honda announced Thursday that it will invest $470 million dollars to build its fourth plant in Mexico, which will be located in Celaya, Guanajuato, and will specialize in the production of transmissions. Tetsuo Iwamura, executive vice president of Honda Motor, said the new factory will generate 1,500 direct jobs and will start operations in the second half of 2015. Last year, with an investment of $800 million dollars, the company began the construction of an assembly plant also in Celaya, which will employ 3,200 people in the manufacturing sector when it reaches its

As part of Promexico's Mexico-European Union competitiveness and innovation program (PROCEI), the European Community will invest 20 million pesos in Mexico to train 25 Mexican SMEs to obtain AS9100 aeronautical certification this year. Through the Aeronautical Testing and Technology Laboratory (Labta), SMEs in areas such as metal mechanics, electrical systems and even companies dedicated to composite or composite materials will be trained. "To help them quickly and achieve the goal, we are recovering the SMEs that have the capacity to make wonderful materials that the industry requires, that

In his inaugural speech at the Plastimagen Mexico 2013 industrial fair, held in Mexico City last March, the president of Anipac, engineer José Anselmo del Cueto, highlighted the role of plastics in the automotive industry. According to the executive, in this niche, the progressive replacement of traditional materials with plastic implies great fuel savings, greater comfort, lower cost and greater efficiency in passenger safety systems. This is a high value-added market, where the longevity of plastics is also highly appreciated. Mexico's current boom in the automotive industry offers juicy

Great possibilities for Italian SMEs specialized in the production of packaging and bottling machinery in Mexico. UCIMA, the Italian trade association, is committed to supporting companies in the most important sector of the local fair, Expo Pack Mexico 2013. In general, Italy exports about 90% of its production, but the margin for growth is still very high. Mexico represents a very strong market for the Italian packaging machinery industry for food, beverages, medicines and other non-food products. Industries buy about US$500 million worth of machinery every year. And it is an industry