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Industrial Parks from Agriculture to High Tech
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SELECTING
AN INDUSTRIAL PARK FOR YOUR FACTORY
The
place to settle your industrial operations in
Sonora varies in each region because there are
important geographic and climate and more differences
along the State.
For all multinational corporations that have
decided to move into Mexico, is very important
to consider the differences among regions.
Sonora has a broad offer.
In this article we provide you information about
where to stablish your assembly plant, industry
or maquila. We consider aspects such as quality
of life in the region, labor force skills, services
that industrial parks offer, such as all-inclusive
packages with rent of buildings, workforce,
transportation, customs and eficient solutions
to reduce your costs and production facilities.
The reasons of where to produce or assambly
a product offer solid arguments.
SonoraEs... Industrial parks, more than factories
or industrial buildings. Know them in detail.
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Industrial Parks: precincts specialized and planned
to concentrate vocation, work, resources and tools
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The
industry is one of the most dynamic sectors and
in constant growth that has prompted the regional
economy in Sonora. Left behind remain the first
cottage industries, that devised their products
almost of craft form, to lead to the large industrial
complexes that are located in all the state of
Sonora, form the border line to the southern valleys,
including the coastal zone.
During the decade of the 60’s, a diversification
in the established industry was given up till
then, with the rise of the bonded assembly plants
in the border line, as part of an Industrialization
Program of the Border implemented by the government
in 1965, with the objective of creating more sources
of employment. Cities like Nogales, Agua Prieta,
San Luis Rio Colorado, initiated a considerable
growth, that provided the necessary infrastructure
for the creation of the industrial parks in the
70’s.
Large extensions of land, near the main ways of
communication or the border line or in the same
centers of population, began to plan and to endow
the basic services so that the businesses interested
in the zone would have everything needed for their
operation.Sonora has currently 48 industrial parks
distributed strategically in the |
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Sonoran
territory, 17 correspond to the State System of
Industrial Parks, 3 are related to fishing activities
and are managed at federal level and the remaining
belong to the private initiative.
Among the services provided are water, electric
energy, rain drainage, public lighting, paved
roads, recreational areas for its workers, and
medical services. Some others are equipped with
networks of natural gas, railroad service, and
the best in modern telecommunications as it is
the use of optic fiber in its internal networks
and substations of broadcast of specialized data. |
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Sonora's
labor is important and parks include it
as a as an advantage of the region. Raw
materials are processed in agro-industrial
and fishing parks, cars are manufactured
in Sonora, as well as electronic
circuits of high technology.
Since the recent announcement of the expansion
of Ford in Hermosillo, south of la Colorada
highway, a new park is built in which
the suppliers of the new project for 2005 will
be installed. To the date of this edition,
the start of construction of four of the
larger plants has been confirmed,
among them Magna. |
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On
the other hand master plans exist that contemplate
the installation of housings inside the perimeter
of the same park for its employees’ comfort.
At a state level, Sonora has a great network of
highways that ease the transportation of supplies
and merchandise. The industrial parks have access
to one or several routes to be communicated for
land to any destiny. In the state there are also
3 international airports, a maritime port, Guaymas,
railroads, and among all this state infrastructure,
gas pipeline from Naco to Hermosillo stand out,
that was established in the 80’s, with a
length of 336 kilometres. Communications are also
at service of the industry, cell, conventional
phone system, networks, Internet, and microwaves
are also offered by the state.
To speak of industry is to speak of a great diversity
of branches as that of manufacture, the bonded
assembly plant of export, the agro industry, the
fishing industry, chemical, mining, among others.
All represented in the industrial parks of Sonora.
The borderer cities of Nogales, Agua Prieta and
San Luis Rio Colorado have developed great industry
bonded assembly plants. Nogales is the second
city in the state with more industrial parks,
among the ones that emphasize: the Industrial
parks City Nogales, Terraces del Cid, San Carlos,
Nogales S.A. of C.V., and Nuevo Nogales harbor
international industries such as: Motorola, Chamberlain,
Sonitrones, Samson, Avent, Master Lock, among
others. Some of them have more than one plant
of production or departments as in the case of
Avent (four plants) and Sonitrones (12 departments).
San Luis Río Colorado is another of the
poles of development that has grasped the attention
of the investors. Enterprises like Daewoo, Bose,
Onion King, with Korean and American capitals
have dominated in this boarder city. A very modern
International Industrial Park is being developed,
in which an extensive range of services for workers
and their families are contemplated. Inside the
future plans of this development is the installation
of a customs that would permit the direct access
of products and commodities from the park to the
United States.
Other cities as Cananea, Naco, Imuris, Magdalena
and Santa Ana have developed its industrialist
potential in smaller scale. Autopartes of Santa
Ana (APS) has been in business for more than 15
years operating in Santa Ana, becoming the first
supplier of Ford established out of Hermosillo,
who already began supplying flexible hoses complying
with precision with the requirements of the company.
In Hermosillo, Cd. Obregón, Guaymas, and
Navojoa besides the agro industry that transforms
and gives value to the production of the field,
the manufacture has been one of the large job
generators. Hermosillo, being the capital, has
a great number of parks that in its majority are
private, all of them located in important zones
of the city and surrounded with efficient and
extensive communication.
Internationally recognized businesses operate
in the industrial Park of Hermosillo. Great quality
of labor exists in Sonora; without doubt Ford
is a clear example of it and in 2003 reaffirmed
its commitment to continue growing and contributing
to the development of the industry specialized
in the automobile branch.
One of the most important characteristics of this
park is the variety of industries of different
branches that operate; such as those of transformation,
agriculture, and stockbreeding sectors. Businesses
as Cortes y Procesos de Carne de Sonora, Norson,
Rancho el 17, characterize for being large meat
products exporters to international markets and
regions.
Dinatech Sur is the most recent industrial park
in construction and has qualified as the best
equipped park built in Mexico, since it has been
designed for suppliers of Ford plant. The incentives
in infrastructure offered by the government will
facilitate operations for the businesses installed.
Subterranean installations of public lighting
and high tension electric energy, networks of
copper, gas, water, and optical fiber communication
are part of their innovative services. It will
also have a bridge to interconnect with the Industrial
Park of Hermosillo and the car assembly plant,
as well as an extension on the railroad.
In the Coast area of the state, the Industrial
Park Roca Fuerte in Guaymas and the Industrial
Park Bellavista in Empalme, have been consolidated
as two large economic detonators of this zone
generating more than 10 thousand jobs with the
operation of 30 plants focused to the auto parts,
aerospace, and electronic industry. In the Bellavista
park operates the only Desalination plant installed
in the state that has a capacity of 600 cubic
meters daily and recently was finished to install
a network of optic fiber.
Cd. Obregon is a city of great agricultural tradition.
Obregon is a city in continuous growth. Mexican
businesses as Cerveceria Modelo, Gamesa, and Frito
Lay are present in the Industrial Park of that
city.
The Autocircuitos de Obregón, (Acosa),
which belongs to the Japanese business Yasaki
is the greater employer to state level generating
more than 5,000 jobs; is dedicated to manufacture
automobile harnesses and is located in this industrial
complex. Also it is important to indicate that
its presence extended to Navojoa with a subsidiary
that was installed late 2003; Secosa, generating
1,200 jobs.
In the parks installed in the ports of Guaymas,
Rocky Point and Yavaros, the industries relate
to the sea and the great diversity of products
that are obtained from it, thus emphasize in them,
the canning plants of sardine, plants elaboration
of fish flour, freezers, packing of classified
shrimp, and shipyards dedicated to the production
of shipping and transportation of products.
Sonora is an attractive destiny for the foreign
and national investments, the great proximity
with the largest market of the world; its modern
infrastructure and in growth, the great technical
quality of labor and specialized as well as its
great labor stability, have influenced considerably
in the growth and strengthening of the economy. |
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