With an investment of 700 million pesos, the cement company Holcim Apasco will change its name to Holcim México and improve its assets. To modify its image and corporate name, the company will allocate 200 million pesos, while it will channel another 500 million pesos to improve its assets, informed Eduardo Kretschemer, CEO of the Mexican construction production sector company, at a press conference. Kretschemer said that the $500 million pesos earmarked for asset renewal will be used to replace equipment in its plants, as well as to improve its operations in order to be more competitive. The

Traditionally, machines for the packaging industry have been hydraulic. However, industrialists have realized that migrating to the use of electric machinery brings benefits in terms of lower energy consumption, maintenance and increased production. "Having recent generation machines increases production capacity because the previous machines were slower and were in maintenance for longer periods of time. Having new machines helps minimize maintenance costs by 50%, increases production time and, therefore, production capacity by 20%," said Luis Carvajal, Engineering Manager of Nypro Kanaak, a

With the expansion of Tenaris-Tamsa, a thousand people have been hired to the workforce of the company dedicated to the manufacture of steel pipes, informed the company's Public Relations Manager, Gerardo Cárdenas Hernández. He pointed out that there are 4,700 people working on a permanent basis and that the factory generates around 20,000 indirect jobs per year, benefiting the region and reactivating other suppliers of the international company. The expansion of the facilities that are being made with the investment of 1,600 million dollars will allow production to increase from 800,000 tons

Mexico increased the value of its auto parts production by 10.3% between 2011 and 2012, displacing South Korea as the fifth largest global manufacturer of automotive parts and components. Mexico's main advantage over Asia was the diversification of sales, since while the bulk of South Korea's auto parts production is for its assembly plants (such as Hyundai, Kia and SsangYong), Mexico serves several Asian, American and European brands, explained Oscar Albin, president of INA. Since 2009, the auto parts sector in Mexico has recorded a sustained increase and in 2012 production reached a historic

Given the growth of the aerospace industry, manufacturers of industrial buildings for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) have new projects in the pipeline; specifically at the Queretaro state airport, where Bombardier and Kuo Aerospace, General Electric (GE), Sames (Snecma America Engine Services), among other companies, are located. Luis M. Barreiro Hernández, director of the marketing area of Grupo GMI (Sistemas Modernos de Construcción) explained that the works to be carried out will cover 6,000 to 8,000 square meters, which represents "investments for medium-term return. Obviously this

During the last Plastimagen Mexico 2013 E.J. Krause, the company organizing the show, announced that a new version of this important event will be held. Plastimagen Norte will make its debut in Monterrey in March 2014. The new version will be held annually in an effort to expand the benefits of this type of exhibition to more industries in northern Mexico. "There is a demand for a regional show in Monterrey," said Jose del Cueto , president of ANIPAC, an association that has supported all versions of Plastimagen. In its 2013 international edition, the event received more than 30 thousand

MEXICO CITY - The plastics industry, in its transformation, is becoming sustainable, because previously the sector's equipment spent a lot of energy, which came to represent up to 30% of its cost, but this has been reduced thanks to the arrival of fourth-generation machines that have been designed to save energy, said Jose Navarro, General Manager at E.J. Krause Mexico. "They have changed hydraulic equipment that require maintaining an adequate level of pressure to move the molds, which are very heavy elements, for electric systems that are assisted by motors, which makes operations much