Steris Leases Mexico Facility
Steris Corp., a sanitizing lotions and soaps maker, said on Wednesday it signed a lease on a facility in Monterrey, Mexico, where it plans to transfer manufacturing operations from Erie, Pa.
The facility _ which Steris is leasing from real-estate developer Avante Group _ will be used to manufacture sterilization equipment for healthcare, pharmaceutical plants and research laboratories. The facility comprises roughly 13 acres, and is located two and a half hours south of Laredo, Texas. After the initial build-out at the site, Steris plans to transfer operations in phases through the summer of 2007.
In January, Steris announced plans to cut 450 jobs, and to move its Erie, Pa. manufacturing operations to Mexico. The cost-cutting move is expected to save $20 million annually after it is completed, and is expected to result in a charge of $30 million, or 27 cents per share, in the fourth quarter.
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May & Scofield has 38 employees, will consolidate with Mexico plant
May & Scofield's closing means it is offering the community back some of its best workers. "We have a workforce here anyone in the community should be welcome to," said Madison Plant Manager Scott Finck. "We're offering the community back some of its best. Anyone would be lucky to have them."
In an announcement Monday, May & Scofield Company Chairman Rick Scofield said the Madison plant will be closing at the end of February. The company plans to merge the Madison operation with May & Scofield's facility in Acuna, Mexico.
May &
Mexico's water chief hints at Bajagua OK
Mexico's top water official said this week that his agency would probably back a controversial proposal by a San Diego company to build and operate a sewage treatment plant in Mexico.
“We would need to see the actual plans, but I believe the position . . . would be in favor of the project,†Cristóbal Jaime Jácquez, director of Mexico's National Water Commission, said following a tour of a sewage-pumping facility in Tijuana's Laureles Canyon.
The unusual proposal by Bajagua LLC has generated some opposition north of the border. But in Mexico, there
DaimlerChrysler upgrades Mexico plant
DaimlerChrysler AG said Wednesday its Toluca facility will have the capability to build more than one model on its assembly line as part of the automaker's $1 billion investment in its Mexican operations.
In addition to enhancing the Toluca plant, which currently builds the Chrysler PT Cruiser, the funds will help create two supplier parks and further operational improvements, the company said.
The supplier parks, to be built near the Toluca facility, will be jointly funded and will make head liners, cockpits, front-end modules and front and rear suspensions.
The bulk of the investment will take place in
U.S., Mexico negotiating to set up customs port in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Shipping U-S vehicles and electronics to Mexico may become much cheaper and faster next year.
That's when the first Mexican customs facility in the U-S is expected to open in the Midwest.It's nearly one-thousand miles to the border from Kansas City.But the area will soon start building an inland port to whisk thousands of trucks through export inspections and back onto the North American Free Trade Agreement corridor.The three (M) million dollar facility is expected to be approved by the U-S and Mexican governments by year's end.
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Sasken plans development center in Mexico
Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd has announced its plans to set up its international Development and Support Center in Nuevo Leon in Mexico, where it a wholly owned subsidiary, Sasken Communication Technologies Mexico.
Sasken Mexico's 12,000 sq ft development and support centre in Monterrey, in the Apodaca Industrial Park will be able to accommodate 100+ engineers. The process for hiring the required engineers has already been initiated. The facility will be operational by the end of the first quarter of 2006. This center will focus primarily on Embedded System Software Development.
"Mexico has excellent infrastructure
Orphanage in Mexico gets Lions' share of gifts
Christmas celebrations came early for an orphanage in Tecate, Mexico, when more than a dozen members of the Montebello Lions Club arrived bearing gifts, food and money.
In its first Orphanage Christmas Party on Dec. 10, the club showered toys, games, clothes, books and several computers on the 29 children at San Juan Bosco Orphanage.
A past president of the Montebello club, Valente Herrera, owns a tile and flooring factory in Tecate. After witnessing the scarce resources at the orphanage, Valente decided to ask the club to unofficially "adopt" the facility earlier this year, said
Company says Mexico to allow pipeline for Arizona refinery
The Mexican government will permit construction and operation of a pipeline to deliver crude oil to a proposed new Arizona gasoline refinery that would be the first such project built in the United States in nearly 30 years, the company behind the project said Tuesday.
Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma said it has reached an understanding with a Mexican ministry, the Secretariat of Energy of Mexico, regarding the pipeline, an offloading facility for tanker ships and a tank farm for temporary storage of oil.
David Traenor, a spokesman for Scottsdale-based Arizona Clean Fuels, called
HBPO Opens New Manufacturing Plant in Mexico
HBPO GmbH, a joint-venture company formed by automotive suppliers Hella, Behr and Plastic Omnium, has opened a new 12,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Hermosillo, Mexico.
The facility will produce front-end modules for the Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln Zephyr models built at Ford Motor Company's Hermosillo assembly plant. The HBPO facility employs 42 people and has an annual production capacity of more than 220,000 front-end modules.
The Hermosillo plant is HBPO's second facility in Mexico. The company also operates a plant with more than 110 employees in Puebla that supplies front-end modules for Volkswagen
Shell Swaps Stake in Gulf of Mexico Field
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Thursday it will swap its 17 percent stake in the Gulf of Mexico's Tahiti field for Total SA's interests in natural gas assets in South Texas.
The Tahiti field, nearly 190 miles southwest of New Orleans, is operated by Chevron Corp. Total said first production is planned for mid-2008 from a floating production facility with daily capacity of 125,000 barrels of oil and 70 million cubic feet of natural gas.
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Mexican police respond to protests after death in Mexico City women's prison
Dozens of riot police on Monday poured into a women's jail in eastern Mexico City to quell protests after an inmate died of an apparent heart attack.
Protesters at Santa Martha Acatitla prison hung burning clothes from the windows along with protest signs proclaiming "no more death" and "we are innocent."
There were no injuries in the protests following the death of one inmate from natural causes, said Pedro Aguilar, a spokesman for the city corrections department.
Prison officials met in the afternoon with inmate leaders to listen to grievances.
About 1,600 inmates,
