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 of America.
“We believe Mexico will develop into our largest production location,” says Martin Schueler, HBPO’s managing director. “We plan to assemble more than 650,000 front-end modules in Puebla and Hermosillo on an annual basis within the next several years.”
About HBPO and Its Partner Companies
HBPO GmbH, Lippstadt, Germany was founded in 2004 as a joint venture between Hella, Behr and Plastic Omnium and is based on a previous joint venture formed by Hella and Behr in 1999. With annual sales of more than 350 euros, HBPO today assembles more than 1.2-million front-end modules in eight manufacturing plants around the world, a number that is expected to grow to more than 2-million units within the next two years. HBPO is the only company specializing in the design, development assembly and delivery of complex front-modules that incorporate lighting, engine cooling, air conditioning, assembly carriers, crash boxes, electronics, locks, air baffles and bumpers.
More: home.businesswire.com
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 &
Alcan acquires packaging plant in Monterrey, Mexico; price not disclosed
Alcan Inc. has acquired a 250-employee packaging business in northern Mexico as the Montreal-headquartered company expands in the Mexican market.
Alcan said Tuesday it paid an undisclosed price for the packaging assets of Recubrimientos y Laminaciones de Papel, S.A. de C.V., also known as Relapasa, of Monterrey, Mexico.
The acquisition of Relapasa, with 2005 sales of about $22 million US, expands Alcan Packaging Mexico to 1,250 employees at three plants.
"The Monterrey site will provide an expanded manufacturing platform to accelerate Alcan's food and specialty flexible packaging growth in the Mexican
Mitsubishi to Build Power Plant in Mexico
Mitsubishi Corp. of Japan signed a contract to build a $611-million coal-fired power plant for Mexico's government-owned electricity company.
The plant will have the capacity to generate 651 megawatts of power and will take three years and eight months to complete, the Federal Electricity Commission said.
Mitsubishi will begin construction on the plant, in the southern state of Guerrero, on May 31, the commission said.
Soure: latimes.com
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
Protiviti Opens Office in Mexico City
Protiviti Inc., a leading internal audit and business and technology risk consulting firm, today announced it has opened an office in Mexico City. The new location is Protiviti's first formal office in the region and will enable the company to better serve its global clients that have operations in Mexico as well as companies based throughout Central America.
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"We are pleased to enhance our ability to address our client's needs in Mexico, one of the largest urban areas in the world and an important manufacturing location for many companies," said Everett
Google Opens Offices in Mexico and Brazil
Brad Hill from the theunofficialgoogleweblog posts that Google has recently opened offices in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, Brazil. In July, we posted that Google had acquired San Paulo-based, Akwan Information Technologies and planned to open a research and development center there. Btw, the theunofficialgoogleweblog post also points out that Google is now trading at over $400/share. As I post this item, it's trading at $403.84, an all-time high.
More: blog.searchenginewatch.com
Dana Corp. dissolves joint venture in Mexico
Dana Corp. announced plans to acquire full ownership of several operations based in Mexico, following the dissolution of its joint venture with DESC S.A. de C.V., known as Spicer S.A. de C.V.
Dana will assume 100 percent ownership of operations that make and assemble axles and driveshafts, as well as forging and foundry operations in which the company now holds an indirect 49-percent interest.
DESC, in turn, will assume full ownership of the transmission and aftermarket gasket operations in which it now holds a 51-percent interest.
The transactions are expected to close in the first quarter of
Short on trucks, GM gears up in Mexico
With its employee-pricing sale over, General Motors Corp. is turning to its Mexican factories to replenish the stocks of American auto dealers.
"We're short on trucks. Dealers don't have them in all the colors and with all the options that people want," said Gilbert Duhn, a customs manager for the company. "We've started building more trucks in Mexico."
Such a move wouldn't be possible without the North American Free Trade Agreement, Duhn said during a speech at the NAFTA vs. Global Competition conference here, which ended Friday. The two-day event was hosted by
Mexico police storm steel plant, 2 shot dead
Hundreds of Mexican police stormed a major steel plant on Thursday to force out striking workers in a violent clash that spilled onto the streets and left at least two workers dead.
Steel workers and police with riot gear and shields fought a pitched battle at the Sicartsa complex, which has been closed for three weeks by workers defending a union boss whom the government accuses of graft.
Dozens were injured when some 600 police moved in firing tear gas canisters early in the morning at the plant in the western state of
Google opens offices in Brazil, Mexico
Search engine Google Inc. on Thursday said that it has opened offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Mexico City, as it looks to accelerate growth in Latin America.
The offices will be charged with boosting use of Google Web sites and increasing advertising sales in the region for the Mountain View, California-based Internet company.
The Mexico operation is led by Gonzalo Alonso, formerly sales director for the T1MSN Internet service. Google's operation in Brazil is managed by Alexandre Hohagen, who was previously Brazil general manager for HBO.
Source: today.reuters.com
