GualapackGroup announced the acquisition of Mexican converter Excel Nobleza S.A.P.I. de C.V., establishing a laminates manufacturing presence in Mexico, with the Herrero family remaining in management.

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.

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.

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.

Grupo Marítimo Industrial (Grupomar) plans to invest about US$48 million in a sardine canning plant and cold storage in Ensenada, Baja California, and expansions of its shipyard and packaging site in Manzanillo, Colima, creating up to 500 jobs.

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.

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.

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.

Dresser-Rand, part of Siemens, received orders to supply five gas turbine-driven compressor trains to Mexican developer Fermaca for pipeline stations in La Laguna, Coahuila and Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosi.

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.