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 are ready and that already have the client," commented Mario Villalón Cornejo, delegate of Cideteq's management in the generation of strategic issues.

For Villalón, the aeronautical industry is generous in the sense that an SME can start working with an industrialist under the promise of certification. "We proposed to accompany SMEs in their aeronautical certification. It may seem like an easy exercise but it is very complex."

One example of an SME that expects to benefit is Kuo Aerospace, which does precision machining of some aircraft structural parts. The companies will have to develop administrative, structural and technical capabilities to become certified.

Source: http://www.manufactura.mx/industria/2013/04/30/ue-invertira-20-mdp-en-aeroespacial-nacional