K. Alan Russell, an El Paso businessman, was recently appointed to the Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) Freight Advisory Committee. Russell is the president and CEO of Tecma Group of Companies. Tecma is a bi-national company that directly employs 4,500 individuals that provides Mexico manufacturing support to maquiladora industry firms. He has been at the [...]
Read MoreA new “Satellite” system was put in place by Mexican Customs on 17 December, 2012 for a 90 day trial period. This new system is an X-ray based technology providing non-intrusive technology which is intended to facilitate trade and ensure national security. This project is part of a modernization strategy to strengthen the control of inspections [...]
Read MoreInternational Manufacturing Solutions, the Mexican subsidiary of the El Paso-based Tecma Group, has recently received the prestigious “Distintivo H” award by the country’s Secretary of Tourism (SECTUR) for the industrial food services that it provides to manufacturers in Mexico. The company garnered the honor in recognition of the superior quality and comprehensive hygiene measures that [...]
Read MorePosted: Sunday, December 23, 2012 6:00 pm | Updated: 12:21 pm, Sun Dec 23, 2012. El Paso Inc. By David Crowder El Paso Inc. staff writer, El Paso Inc. As the push to cut crossing times at the international bridges heats up, a new technology to be launched first in El Paso and Juárez would [...]
Read MoreBy Michael Hissam / Special to the Timeselpasotimes.com – Posted: 12/09/2012 12:00:00 AM MST Bridge wait times continue to be an economic issue for commercial traffic, private vehicles and pedestrians. Lest we forget, the Rio Grande splits more than 2 million people and must be crossed by nearly $80 billion of goods and services every [...]
Read MoreThe Mexican murder capital has lost the dubious honor to another Latin American city. By Emma O’Connor | TIME NewsFeed | October 15, 2012 Mexico’s notoriously dangerous Ciudad Juárez may be a household name—for all the wrong reasons—but Honduras’ San Pedro Sula has ousted the Mexican metropolis as the world’s most violent city. Statistics from 2011 [...]
Read More5S is the name of a workplace organization method that uses a list of five Japanese words: seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu, and shitsuke. Translated into English, they all start with the letter “S”. The list describes how to organize a work space for efficiency and effectiveness by identifying and storing the items used, maintaining the [...]
Read MoreThe Excel with Tecma program is part of the self-improvement and continuing education programs that Tecma offers to its employees. This program was started back in May of 2011 with classes designed for different levels of education to allow those employees that for whatever reason were not able to finish their schooling. These classes are provided [...]
Read MoreBy William Booth, The Washington Post. CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — When this city was among the most murderous in the world, the morgue ran out of room, the corpses stacked to the ceiling in the wheezing walk-in freezers. Medical examiners, in plastic boots, performed a dozen autopsies a day as families of victims waited outside [...]
Read MoreBy Diana Washington Valdez \ El Paso Timeselpasotimes.com Posted: 06/21/2012 12:00:00 AM MDT The mayors of the Paso del Norte’s three largest cities signed a proclamation Wednesday in which they pledged to work together to promote trade and prosperity in the region. The mayors gathered for the event they called “historic” at the [...]
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