Swiss company Sulzer started up a new vertical hydraulic pump factory with a US$7.1 million investment, extending its 40-year-old plant in Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico. Output will serve power generation and hydrocarbon operations.

Siemens Energy announced an expansion of its Querétaro facility, investing 105 million Mexican pesos to add high-power switch and high-voltage line manufacturing, with 200 direct jobs expected. The company says the plant will export to Central America, Chile, the US, Canada and the UK.

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.

Wärtsilä's EPC-built 130 MW gas-fuelled power plant near Monterrey, Mexico, commenced full operations in September 2018 for Pemcorp and Arroyo Energy Investors, with a three-year O&M agreement.

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.