AUTOMOTIVE IndUsTrY In MExIcO Ready to Overtake - ProMéxico

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Automotive
The Newcomer
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After years of debate, luxury automaker
Audi has finally won approval from parent
Volkswagen AG to build a new North American
assembly plant that could help fuel its
record growth in the US and other markets.
Board of Management and Supervisory
Board of Audi AG approved plans to build
Automotive
Ignition
and Go
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With an estimated investment of 35
million usd, the Japanese company
Nishikawa Cooper, specializing in the
manufacture of rubber and glass for
the new plant in Mexico. The exact location for the new facility,
which will manufacture Audi’s Q5 sport-utility vehicle starting in
2016, will be chosen by Audi later this year and it is expected that the
company will invest as much as 2 billion usd.
The plant will assist Volkswagen in its quest to boost US sales to
1 million units by 2018 –including 200,000 Audis and 800,000 VWbranded
vehicles. The automaker is also seeking to sell 10 million
vehicles worldwide by that year, which it believes would position it
as the industry’s global sales leader.
www.audi.com
the automotive industry, will
begin operations in Silao, Guanajuato.
The plant, located in the Guanajuato
Inland Port logistics
center, will meet demand from
customers like Honda, Nissan
and Mazda.
www.nishikawa-rbr.co.jp
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Automotive
Keihin
Arrives
in Mexico
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Japanese automotive engine
parts manufacturer Keihin
will install a production plant
in the northeastern state of
San Luis Potosí. The 29 million
usd facility is planned to
begin producing engine parts
by the end of 2012 and will
have Honda among its major
consumers.
www.keihin-corp.co.jp
Renewable Energy
Solfocus
Working
on New Solar
Plant
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Infrastructure
Grupo Carso to Build New
Water TreatmentPlant
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Mexican construction company Grupo Carso
will invest approximately 1 billion usd in the
construction of a major water treatment plant
at Atotonilco, in the central state of Hidalgo.
The plant is planned to recycle 60% of waste
water in the Valley of Mexico, where Mexico
City is located.
www.ccicsa.com.mx
SolFocus has joined hands with Mexican
real estate developer Grupo Musa and US
based energy developer Synergy Technologies
to launch a solar power plant in Baja
California, Mexico.
The project will have a total capacity of
450 MW. It will be built in 50 megawatt
tranches, with construction on the first one
starting in late 2012 and being operational
before the end of 2013.
The power plant will use SolFocus Concentrator
Photovoltaic equipment. It will
be owned and operated by SolMex Energy,
a new company formed by Grupo Musa and
Synergy Technologies for producing clean
solar energy in Mexico.
solFocus
Northern Mexico, where Baja California
oF
is located, has the third greatest solar resource
in the world, making it an ideal location
for this project.
courtesy
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