Mexico is catching the world's attention as a rising star in the world of manufacturing. The low costs, favorable regulatory climate, quality of the workforce, and ease of trading to the North American and European markets mean that more and more companies are choosing to locate their production operations in Mexico. Mexico has several potential ways for foreign businesses to commence operations in the country, either alone or with a [...]

Top Automotive Manufacturers Leveraging Mexico's Growing Economy Forbes recently ranked the top ten world's largest auto makers, looking at gains in production and profit in 2014, and put Toyota on the top of the list as the worlds largest auto maker. With a wide increase in April 2014 over April 2013, Toyota launched 13.3% more vehicles into the market, helping to boost them to the top spot of the global [...]

Why Mexico's Electronics Manufacturing Is Growing Although the global economic crisis affected the electronics industry worldwide, electronic manufacturing in Mexico enjoys rapid growth. Encouraging economic indicators indicate that further growth in the Mexico electronics industry will continue, leading the nation to a full economic recovery and threatening China’s position as a global manufacturing powerhouse. New foreign investments in Mexico continue to grow as companies find advantages them that help them [...]

In 2012, the total power output was 14.5 GW. This was a combination of both renewable sources and private power generation. Not including hydroelectric power, the amount of renewable energy installed by the end of 2012 was 2.7GW with an actual output of only 2.4 GW. This was a reasonable step to Mexico’s energy sector. Solar manufacturing in Mexico in Mexico is a big thing now amounting to 37 MW, [...]

In any company, no matter what you sell, the amount of money that you buy it for is the biggest factor that affects how much you will be able to make in profit after selling your product. Because of this, more companies are outsourcing or offshoring their work and time in order to save money. Businesses can make more money by keeping their non-essential core activities and processes going through [...]

Manufacturing in Mexico has rapidly grown as a result of a significant political and economic reorganization in the early 1990s. The economy shift resulted in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the US and Canada. State-owned companies were privatized changing Mexico’s economy into an export-oriented industrial one. As trade between Mexico and the US increased, a “manufacturing belt” of maquiladoras, factories in Mexico that produce goods for US [...]

The global demand for goods is rising as emerging economies grow. This in turn isfueling increasing competition in the manufacturing industry and the countries that host them. Nowhere is this more evident than in the automotive manufacturing industry. Both in the top 10 manufacturers worldwide, Brazil and Mexico remain strong contenders Growth Comparison Brazil’s economic downturn over the past few years has adversely affected their share of the manufacturing market. [...]

It wasn’t long ago when businesses in North America were in a rush to get a foothold in China. Manufacturing in China seemed to be the solution to high-priced manufacturing costs in the United States. China had very inexpensive labor and operational costs, and even with a long supply chain, they could help companies undercut the competition on price alone. However, many of those companies are now in a bind [...]

There was a time when China dominated the marketing world as a manufacturing base. But not anymore. The benefits of manufacturing in Mexico include a superior labor force, duty-free trade agreements, more stable infrastructure, close proximity to the North America, and fast marketing response. In spite of its highly reported incidents of violence, Mexico has now replaced China as a preferred manufacturing base location for many U.S. companies; this is [...]