Posts by Jose A. Grajeda
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Manufacturing and technical talent in Mexico
Manufacturers that are seeking to initiate or to expand facilities south of the border should be aware of, and familiar with, the education and training infrastructure that has been put into place for the purpose of developing technical talent in Mexico that is capable of meeting their needs. It in the late 1970s, during the […]
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Mexico-Panama free trade agreement nears Senate ratification
Mexico’s policymakers continue to pursue the country’s free trade strategy. Discussions are currently underway in the Mexican Senate on the topic of the ratification of a Mexico-Panama free trade agreement. Proponents of signing the accord between the two Latin American countries point toward a successful completion of the treaty as being another step towards achieving […]
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Lower industrial electricity rates in Mexico in 2015
A drop in the price of fossil fuels will mean lower industrial electricity rates in Mexico in 2015 for manufacturers. The advent of 2015 brings with it good news for maquiladora manufacturers in the form of what will be lower industrial electricity rates in Mexico. As a direct result of the drop in the global […]
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Mexican Electricity Sector Reform: A Retrospective
Since the early 1980s, many Latin American countries have implemented reforms in the electricity sector with mixed levels of success. Chile: For example, Chile allowed private investment in electricity, which improved the performance of the system, but still allowed high levels of market concentration. Consumer prices declined, but not as much as wholesale prices. Argentina: […]
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Mexican special economic zones to be established
Southern states will see Mexican special economic zones as a means by which to improve security and material conditions. Earlier this month, Mexico’s president, Peña Nieto, outlined 10 points for a new reform plan aimed at cleaning up corruption, improving industry, and cutting down on organized crime in lesser developed states. Mexican special economic zones […]
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Mexican engineering skills expand
“Mexican engineering students outnumber those enrolled in Germany and Brazil.” Mexico is rising in the international manufacturing value chain. One of the reasons for this is the progress that the country has made over the last several decades. When the maquiladora industry got its start in the country during the middle 1960s, the country was […]
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Mexican Electricity Law opens much of the sector up to private participation
Prior to the implementation of the Mexican Electricity Law that went into effect in the early days of August of 2014, Mexico’s electricity sector was strictly vertically integrated, and controlled by the country’s Comision Federal de la Electricidad (CFE). Although some private entity participation in the sector had been allowed since 1992, mainly in limited […]
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The basics of leasing industrial space in Mexico
Most maquladora manufacturers are leasing industrial space in Mexico. Most industrial use buildings occupied in Mexico are rented by the manufacturers that occupy them. Although with some degree of frequency larger multinationals buy land for big projects, and build their own buildings in order to execute greenfield developments, smaller and mid-sized firms will serve their […]
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Tecma Times – Third Quarter 2014
Firstronic enters into agreement to establish Mexican manufacturing operations with the Tecma Group El Paso, Texas – Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Firstronic has entered into a seventy-eight month contract for services in Mexico with the Tecma Group of Companies that will enable the firm to begin the assembly of electronic control units for industrial and automotive […]
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The Infinity Q-30 and QX-30 will be assembled in Mexico
The leaders of two European automotive industry strategic partners, Dieter Zietsche, the president of Daimler, and Carlos Ghons, the president of the Renault-Nissan alliance, recently announced that, in the near future, two new Infiniti models in Mexico will be assembled in Mexico. The work will be done in Nissans new $2.5 billion manufacturing complex located […]
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Texas-Mexico economic ties and trade in transition
Tech industries are playing an increasingly bigger role in Texas-Mexico economic relations. .Among border states, Texas is the undisputed leader in cross border trade with Mexico. Texas-Mexico economic cooperation is clearly visible through an examination of the volume of traffic passes through Texas commercial land ports on its way to and from its southern neighbor. […]
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Mexican worker’s compensation – Part II: Premiums and Dispute Resolution
This brief article is the second installation in a two part series on Mexican workers’ compensation. It concerns itself with an introduction of the methodology that the Mexican Social Security Institute utlilizes for setting the premiums that employers must pay into the fund that is reserved for use by employees that have either been injured […]
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An introduction to workers’ compensation in Mexico – Part I
This is the first in a two part article on the basics of workers’ compensation in Mexico. While in the US workers’ compensation insurance programs are administered on the state level, workers’ compensation in Mexico is a component part of a of a bundled group of benefits that are dispensed to Mexico’s laborers through the […]
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BSNF partners with Ferromex to provide US-Mexico rail service from Chicago to Guanajuato, Mexico
Increased US-Mexico rail traffic creates opportunities and new revenues for companies in both countries. Because of the more than doubling in the volume of its US-Mexico rail traffic in the twenty years that have elapsed since the signing of the NAFTA in 1994, BSNF Railway has struck up a partnership with Mexico’s Ferromex to launch […]
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Depot Repair In Mexico Is Cost Effective
In this Tecma Talk podcast, Rich Guglielmo, COO, of Amcor Service Solutions shares his experiences and addresses the benefits of doing depot repair in Mexico.
Tecma Group of Companies: Hello and welcome to another installment of Tecma Talk podcasts in which we speak to invited guests that experts that are both internal to Tecma […] -
California’s Coastal Closeouts, Inc. to operate in Mexico with the Tecma Group
Los Angeles, California-based Coastal Closeouts, Inc. has entered a five year agreement under which it will operate in Rosarito Beach, Baja California, Mexico through the Tecma Group of Companies’ Mexico Shelter Manufacturing Partnership (MSMP). Services delivered by Tecma will enable Coastal Closeouts to begin sorting, classifying and packaging used clothing for the purpose of exporting […]
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Toyota Mexico manufacturing plans under review
Company executives take a breath to reassess Toyota Mexico manufacturing strategy and plans. Earlier this month, it was reported that company officials were actively scouting a Toyota Mexico manufacturing site. The company is the only major automobile OEM without significant production capacity in the country. Last week, however, Toyota president, Akio Toyoda, put the project […]
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What are Normas Oficiales Mexicanas, or NOMs in Mexico? A primer.
NOMs in Mexico, or Normas Oficiales Mexicanas, are mandatory rules applicable mainly to the labeling of imported product for sale in Mexican national territory. From a historical perspective, unlike in the United States, setting standards for products in Mexico was done with little or no feedback provided by privately-owned industry and consumers. As a result, […]
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Mexico IMMEX-Maquiladora program experiences job growth
Despite a smaller number of companies registered under Mexico’s IMMEX-Maquiladora program over a calendar year, employment figures are up. In terms of numbers, there were 2.2% fewer companies registered under the Mexico IMMEX-Maquiladora program in June 2014 than there were during the same month in the prior year. During the sixth month of 2014, the […]
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Job creation in Mexico in 2014 will exceeed previous year’s gains by forty percent
The director of Manpower Latin America that job creation in Mexico will top out at six hundred and fifty thousand new formal sector positions by the end of the current year.
