Audi Q5 earns Kelley Blue Book Best Buy award for second year in a row
For second year in a row, the Audi Q5 has been named winner of the 2019 Kelley Blue Book Best…
Seoul-based Nexen to supply all-season tires for the Volkswagen Jetta
Nexen Tire, a tire manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, announced that it has signed a deal to supply its…
Germany-based Elektro-Kontakt invests US$ 24 million to set up its fourth plant in Coahuila
Elektro-Kontakt, a manufacturer of electrical components for a wide range of industries, inaugurated in recent days its fourth production site…
GM closures hit 500 suppliers in Mexico and that is just a wake-up call
Just because General Motors does not plan to idle assembly plants in Mexico, it doesn’t mean the local industry will…
GM cuts: production of Chevy Cruze will also end in Coahuila
Earlier this week, General Motors confirmed plans to idle five plants and cut nearly 14,000 jobs in North America in…
BMW now considers building a plant in the US for engines, transmissions
Just a few days after BMW officials in Mexico revealed that the German premium automaker would consider to build its…
Japanese manufacturer to invest in Yucatan 30% more than originally planned
Yucatan state authorities and executives of Uchiyama Manufacturing Corporation, signed last week the letter of intent for the construction of…
Production of heavy trucks hikes 15% in first nine months of 2018; exports grow 31%
Last September, production of heavy vehicles in Mexico was of 16,342 units, while exports totaled 13,790 units. If compared with…
US auto sales expected to drop in November, but average prices will hit record high
Analysis firms are expecting an auto sales drop ranging from 1.3 to 3.8% for November 2018 in the U.S. market….
Next-generation Mazda3 debuts at Los Angeles Auto Show
28 November, 2018Japanese automaker Mazda unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show the next generation of the Mazda3, the first commercial model…
Footwear industry interested in investing in Oaxaca
28 November, 2018Governor Alejandro Murat met with directors of the Flexi and Taguesi footwear industries, who expressed their interest in investing in…
Santa Lucia will have an investment of US$484,978 million in 2019
28 November, 2018Javier JimĂ©nez EspriĂş, the next Secretary of Communications and Transport, announced that in 2019 US$484.978 million will be invested in…
Soria Natural will commercialize cannabis products in Mexico
28 November, 2018Soria Natural, through its subsidiary Fitonat Mexico, has been one of the seven companies authorized to commercialize products containing cannabis…
Lopez Obrador reaches out to manufacturing companies for youth-oriented training program
27 November, 2018Manufacturing companies with production sites in Ciudad Juarez learned about a new program president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will implement…
Faurecia supplies resonance free pipe for GM pickup trucks from Guanajuato plant
27 November, 2018French automotive supplier Faurecia announced it will equip two of GM’s foremost pickup trucks, the Chevrolet Silverado and the GMC…
Sweden-based manufacturer Dometic AB to open a new plant in Mexico by March
27 November, 2018Dometic AB, a Sweden-based manufacturer of cooling systems and air conditioners for trucks and recreational vehicles, will open a plant…
Hitachi Cable to expand production capacity at Queretaro plant in 2019
27 November, 2018Hitachi Cable, a manufacturer of brake components, will increase production capacity of its plant in Queretaro next year by shifting…
USMCA rules may be unworkable for some suppliers, official says
27 November, 2018Complying with the proposed US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that replaces NAFTA will be expensive for those in the automotive supply chain…
YFYJupiter changes leadership
27 November, 2018YFYJupiter, an innovative, sustainable packaging solutions company, has a new manager. Irina Liao is now the plant manager in the…
Queretaro authorities open center of innovation for Industry 4.0
27 November, 2018Authorities of the Secretariat of Sustainable Development (Sedesu) of the state of Queretaro inaugurated the Productivity and Innovation Center for…
