Sanhua Automotive Mexico opened its third plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, with an investment of about 400 million pesos, adding roughly 250 jobs. The plant will make automotive thermal expansion valves and other components.

Bosch will begin operations in December 2017 at a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, with investment above $80 million. The plant will focus on steering systems for automakers in the Bajío corridor.

Walbro LLC opened a new aluminum die casting facility co-located with its engine management plant in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. It starts with flywheels for small engines and plans six more die casting machines.

General Electric Oil & Gas Pressure Control opened a plant in the Guadalupe Industrial Park, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, for manufacturing oil industry equipment. The investment was 200 million pesos, creating 160 direct jobs, with exports to 22 countries.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto inaugurated Grupo Modelo's brewery in Hunucmá, Yucatán, with initial capacity of 5 million hectoliters a year and an aluminum can plant producing 1 billion cans a year, built for 8.5 billion pesos.

General Electric inaugurated a plant in the municipality of Guadalupe, Nuevo León, Mexico, where it will manufacture wellheads and Christmas trees for the hydrocarbons industry for export to 22 countries. The plant cost 190 million pesos and will employ 150 technicians and specialists.

SSI Schaefer Packaging opened an 8,500 square meter reusable packaging fabrication facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, on March 1, 2017, expected to create about 50 jobs.

Grupomar plans to invest about 500 million pesos in a new sardine canning plant with refrigerated storage and vessels in Ensenada, with capacity of one million cases a year.

Maflow Mexico, a Boryszew subsidiary, started production at a new 4,712-square-meter greenfield plant in Silao, Guanajuato, invested US$13.8 million, supplying air conditioning parts and tubing for Volkswagen's Atlas SUV.