Smurfit Kappa plans to invest 300 million dollars to expand its infrastructure and production in the State of Mexico over the coming years, creating more than 1,200 jobs. The announcement was made in January 2022 by Governor Alfredo Del Mazo Maza.
Smurfit Kappa is investing $22 million to expand its corrugated plant in Culiacan, Mexico, adding a 10,900 m2 building with a new corrugator and rotary die cutter, with completion targeted for the end of 2021. The plant's workforce is expected to grow to over 300 employees.
Grupo Industrial Saltillo announced a $30 million investment to expand capacity at Draxton's automotive parts foundry in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, adding 30,000 tonnes per year of nodular iron casting capacity with operations starting in Q4 2022.
Continental announced a roughly €60 million expansion of its San Luis Potosí automotive plant, adding about 20,000 square meters of production floor and a fully automated high-bay warehouse for disc brakes and electronic parking brakes. Full operation is expected by October 2022.
Motherson announced a new production line at its plant in the Logistik II industrial park in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The company's global investment in recent months totals 640 million pesos (about 32 million US dollars).
Smurfit Westrock invested 26 million dollars to expand its corrugated cardboard plant in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The expansion was carried out in 2023 according to the article.
SKF is investing approximately $23 million to move tapered roller bearing manufacturing from China to an existing manufacturing site in Mexico. The move is part of its North American manufacturing consolidation announced September 24, 2020.
Stant began an expansion of its plant in the San Miguel de Allende industrial park in Guanajuato, backed by a $15.2 million investment expected to create 500 jobs over five years.
The Nidec Press & Automation service center in Queretaro, Mexico is expanding with a new facility to add warehouse space and larger on-site press remanufacturing capability. No value or timing was given.
Nidec Motor Corporation expanded its Monterrey, Mexico manufacturing facility by 60,000 square feet with a $2.3 million investment to increase production capacity for industrial electric motors.
Danfoss announced the expansion of its industrial refrigeration line at its Apodaca, Nuevo León plant, where manual refrigeration valves previously imported from China will be assembled locally to supply the Americas by the end of the year.
Danfoss Mexico has expanded operations at its Apodaca plant by installing a production line for industrial refrigeration valves, previously imported mostly from China. The investment amount was not disclosed.
Whirlpool inaugurated an expansion of its Celaya, Guanajuato plant, its largest in Mexico, with a $5 million investment including a 1,000-ton press, raising stove production capacity by 18%.
ITP Aero inaugurated new facilities in Querétaro, Mexico, for producing aircraft engine pipes and end-fittings, adding 40 jobs in 2019 and targeting 327,000 pipes and 230,000 end-fittings in 2020.
HellermannTyton Manufacturas announced a US$30 million expansion of its plant in Nuevo León, Mexico, to raise installed capacity and create 300 new jobs. The company plans a further US$10 million investment later, bringing total staff to 500 by 2022.
GEPP's Procesos Plasticos (Proplasa) plant in Tultitlan, State of Mexico, has a production line targeting over 14,000 tonnes of shrink film and 4,500 tonnes of stretch film per year. Italian firm Amut Dolci Extrusion supplied three coextrusion lines and related equipment.
Copamex will switch production at its Anáhuac mill in Mexico from graphic paper to recycled containerboard, having ordered a modern stock preparation system from Voith.
Treofan Americas plans to install a 10-meter wide BOPP extrusion line in late 2018 adding 30,000 tons of capacity at its Zacapu, Mexico plant. The total project capital expenditure is estimated at $65 million.
Siemens inaugurated a new production line at its Balvanera plant in Corregidora, Queretaro, investing US$7.2 million to double capacity for low and medium voltage control panels and switches from 7,000 to 14,000 panels per year, adding 240 jobs.
Owens-Illinois will build a fifth glass furnace at its Nava plant in northeastern Mexico to supply beer bottles to Constellation's adjacent brewery, an expansion estimated at about $140 million, financed equally by both partners.
Smurfit Kappa started operating a new containerboard machine PM6 at its Los Reyes paper mill in Tlalnepantla, Mexico, in October 2017, adding about 100,000 tonnes a year of capacity for $62 million.
Treofan is investing USD 45 million in a new 5-layer, 10.4m BOPP orientation line at its Zacapu, Mexico plant, due to start in Q4 2018. The line yields a net capacity increase of about 30,000 tons per year, or 50% of current capacity, as an old 1992 line is mothballed.
German BOPP film maker Treofan Group announced in July 2017 a $45 million new manufacturing line at its Zacapu, Michoacan plant, adding 30,000 tonnes a year of capacity, with completion expected in Q4 2018.
Treofan invested $45 million in a new biaxially oriented polypropylene film line at its Zacapu, Mexico plant, adding about 30,000 tons per year of capacity, with operation due in Q4 2018. Brückner Group will supply the line.
Emerson's Copeland Scroll division opened a new production line, Line 4, at its Reynosa compressor plant and is offering over 100 operator vacancies. The plant already employs about 730 people.
Grupomar plans to invest about 500 million pesos to expand its can factory, frozen food and sachet packaging operations in Manzanillo, Mexico. Grupomar expects 400 to 500 jobs nationwide.
Continental celebrated completion of a major expansion at its Juárez 1 plant in the Parque Industrial Panamericano, which will add two new products, a BLDC motor and a Mass Air Flow sensor, over the next two years.
Tristone Flowtech Group is investing nearly $6.4 million in 2016 and 2017 to expand manufacturing equipment at its new Delicias, Chihuahua plant, which began production in December 2016 and doubles the size of the existing site.
Bendix has doubled manufacturing capacity for solenoid valves and assembled manifolds at its Acuña, Mexico plant with a US$1.5 million investment adding a low-flow solenoid line and a manifold line.
Hexpol AG invested $9.2 million (EUR 8.7 million) in a 135-litre rubber mixing line at its Queretaro facility, adding about 12,000 tonnes of capacity to 53,000 tonnes per year; the addition was celebrated at an open house on 16 November.
Bemis Manufacturing is adding 15,200 square meters and three 1,000-1,500 ton presses to its Monterrey plant, and the building can support future presses up to 4,400 tons. The company plans to hire once the expansion is complete.
Bos Automotive announced a $12 million expansion of its Irapuato, Guanajuato plant, adding 8,000 square meters and about 400 jobs over three years. The German auto parts maker is celebrating ten years in the state.
Altopro SA de CV plans a $50 million expansion of its Irapuato facility, including a new five-layer polypropylene oriented film line from Brückner, expected operational in early 2017 and adding about 40 million pounds of capacity.