Marshall Excelsior Company, a Harbour Group company, acquired Xanor de Mexico (Xanik), a Mexico City maker of specialty severe-service valves. Terms were not disclosed.
Atlas Copco Power and Flow signed a commercial partnership with Proveedora de Bombas, Motores y Compresores to distribute its products, including WEDA submersible pumps, in Mexico. The agreement includes training for the distributor's personnel.
Grupo Modelo, working with WestRock and Grupo Gondi, is switching from plastic ring carriers to CanCollar Eco paperboard multipack collars in Quintana Roo, Mexico, at an investment of about $4 million. The first phase is projected to eliminate more than 100 tons of plastic waste.
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.
Clearlake Capital-backed Pretium Packaging completed its acquisition of Grupo Edid, a Lerma, Mexico rigid packaging manufacturer and paperboard printer, on December 16, 2021; financial terms were not disclosed.
Direct Pack Inc. opened a new 200,000-square-foot thermoforming facility in Mexicali, called Direct Pack Baja, which began producing food packaging in September 2021. The plant represents a $25M investment.
French aluminum foundry Le Bélier confirmed a $100 million investment in a new production plant in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, creating 500 jobs. The plant will serve the automotive market.
Hitachi Astemo will invest 56 million dollars over two years to improve industrial safety at its Lerma plants in Mexico, creating 480 new jobs, the state governor announced.
Guntner officially inaugurated a new 8,400 m2 production plant in Apodaca, Mexico, making evaporators and condensers for commercial refrigeration to serve growing US demand.
Hengli Hydraulic plans a CNY1.2 billion project in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with annual capacity for oil cylinders, special cylinders and hydraulic pumps and motors. No construction schedule was given.
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.
Nidec Global Appliance will invest $83 million in its Mexican plants, including $33 million for a compressor line in Apodaca, Nuevo León, and further investments in rolling mill, HVAC motor and appliance motor operations. The investments aim to add production lines and raise capacity for the North American market.
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.
Smurfit Kappa Group completed the acquisition of Cartonbox, a folding carton company based in Monterrey, north-east Mexico, announced on 5 July 2021.
SIG will build a new carton packaging plant in Querétaro, Mexico, to serve North American markets, investing around 40 million euros over 2021-2023. The plant is expected to open in Q1 2023 and create about 200 jobs.
Grupo WIC, a subsidiary of Western Industries Corporation, opened a new larger facility in Reynosa, Mexico, with new manufacturing capabilities, with an inauguration ceremony held on August 21, 2018.
SIG will build a new carton packaging production plant in Queretaro, Mexico, investing around 40 million euros over 2021-2023 to serve North American markets. The plant is expected to open in Q1 2023 and create about 200 jobs.
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.
Coahuila Governor Miguel Riquelme announced Lennox's third plant in the region, a 375,000 sq ft building with corporate offices being built by Amistad Construction at Amistad Airport Industrial Park.
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.
Coretech Flow/Master Valve USA was awarded a contract to supply manual and automated ball valves for a 30-inch gas pipeline in Mexico operated by Fermaca, with SENER as EPC contractor. The scope covers 28 manual and 39 automated valves, with the automated valves integrated and tested in Katy, Texas.
Tri-Wall's Mexican subsidiary TW Mexico Packaging Solutions acquired a 100% stake in Thimm Packaging Systems Mexico, a supplier of industrial packaging to the Mexican automotive market, with the transaction closing on October 9, 2020.
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.
Rengo's subsidiary Triwall, through TW Mexico Packaging Solutions, acquired a 99.99% stake in Tim Packaging Systems, the Mexican unit of Germany's Tim Group, which makes heavy-duty corrugated packaging for the automotive industry. The article is dated 13 August 2020 and gives the announcement as 12 October.
UFI Filters won a contract to supply engine oil coolers for the new 3.0L diesel engine in General Motors pickups and SUVs in the NAFTA market starting in 2023, produced at its plant in Mexico.
Jaguar Exploración y Producción selected Emerson for its onshore exploration and production program. The announcement was made on July 21, 2020.
Typack-Recipet plans to invest US$5 million in a new thermoformed plastic packaging plant in Mexico, expected to be operational within 15 months.
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.
KYB Americas announced a new manufacturing plant in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, to begin with hydraulic pumps for automotive continuously variable transmissions and later make shocks, struts and steering components. The plant is expected to add 130 jobs.
San Miguel Industrias is constructing a 10,000 square metre rigid plastic packaging plant in Huejotzingo, Mexico, with a $28 million investment, 10 SACMI machines and 150 planned jobs.
The Nordex Group received an order to supply and install 42 turbines with a combined 138 MW output in Tamaulipas, Mexico, including a two-year full service contract. Installation starts in spring 2020.
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.
Heineken built a greenfield brewery in Meoqui, Chihuahua, Mexico, with about 5 million hectoliters annual capacity and 500 direct jobs, a roughly 400 million euro investment; KHS supplied four of the six lines.
Spanish firm TotalWinePack set up Consorcio TotalWinePack México and signed a strategic alliance with Mexican packaging company Todo de Cartón to manufacture its wine transport boxes in Mexico. The alliance was closed at the end of November 2019.
Grupo Gondi, a Mexican paper, corrugated and folding carton manufacturer, will install a Landa S10 nanographic printing press at its new Monterrey plant by the end of 2019. It will be the first Landa press in Latin America.
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.
Trelleborg's offshore operation was awarded a major multi-million-dollar contract by Pemex to supply its Elastopipe rubber-based flexible piping system for the Abkatun A complex in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract was announced on 3 July 2019.
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%.
O-I completed its acquisition of Nueva Fabrica Nacional de Vidrio (Nueva Fanal) from Grupo Modelo for about US$188 million. The plant near Mexico City has four furnaces producing about 300,000 tons of glass containers a year.
Irish packaging group Smurfit Kappa will invest $34 million in two stages to build a new corrugated cardboard plant in Baja California, Mexico, creating 200 new jobs.
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.
Rohrer is building a new thermoforming facility in Tijuana, Mexico, to serve U.S. consumer goods and packaging customers who have moved manufacturing to the border region. The plant is expected to employ nearly 200 people at full production.
C&P and parent U.S. Corrugated Holdings entered a strategic alliance with Bio Pappel, giving C&P operational control of Bio Pappel's Mexicali super plant, effective April 5, 2019. Investments continue with a new Latitude Jumbo folder-gluer and a Barberan digital press.
Owens-Illinois agreed to acquire Nueva Fanal, a glass container plant near Mexico City, from Grupo Modelo for about $188 million in cash. The plant produces roughly 300,000 tons of glass containers a year, and the deal is expected to close during 2019.
A Mexican mining company commissioned German pump maker Abel GmbH to supply 14 hydraulic diaphragm pumps for transporting jarosite sludge in zinc production.
Harsco Industrial IKG broke ground on a new 12,000 sq m grating production plant in the Advance Querétaro Industrial Park in El Marqués, Mexico, with an investment of about 17 million dollars and 158 initial jobs. The plant will supply industrial grating to Mexico and Latin America.