Saltillo Economy

Saltillo's most famous exports are Saltillo tile and the locally woven multi-coloured sarapes. There is a General Motors assembly plant and Chrysler's Saltillo Truck Assembly plant, two engine facilities and a car transmissions plant. 37.4% of cars and 62.6% of trucks produced in Mexico are assembled in Saltillo.[2] Saltillo is home to the Grupo Industrial Saltillo, an important manufacturing conglomerate that makes home appliances, silverware, and auto parts. Some criticism has been made of this new urbanization and the lack of conservation and planning.
During the early 20th Century, Saltillo was called the Athens of Mexico because of its number of famous intellectuals. Nowadays, it is considered the Detroit of Mexico because of the importance of its automotive industry, including the huge Chrysler, General Motors, and Delphi plants.
The General Motors plant, the Complejo Industrial Ramos Arizpe (The Ramos Arizpe Industrial Complex) exports vehicles to Japan, Canada, and Central America. In this plant, the following vehicles are assembled: Chevy C2, Monza and Chevrolet Captiva for Mexican and South American markets. Saturn Vue hybrid and HHR are exported to many nations. In addition, 2010 Saab 9-4X and the Cadillac BRX, will be built at the GM plant in Ramos Arizpe. [1]

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molding and assembly clean-room

Plastics Group, Inc. (UPG), a full service contract manufacturer in the medical, consumer, automotive and electronics market segments today announced that it will open its third Mexican manufacturing location in the northern Baja California region by the fourth quarter of this year. The new 62,000 sq ft facility continues to move UPG toward its strategic objective to expand capacity in low cost countries to service its growing customer base. The state-of-the-art facility, which will be a white-room environment throughout, will include a Class 100,000 clean room to accommodate UPG's growing portfolio of customers in the medical segment. United Plastic Group's newest Mexico plant will be ISO 13485 certified and FDA registered. The plant will service a diversified group of products, as do UPG's plants in the US, Europe, China and Monterrey, Mexico. Customers in the medical, consumer, automotive and electronics industries will be able to take advantage of the advanced processing, engineering and lean manufacturing capabilities provided by the new facility.
"We sought a showcase site not only to attract customers, but also to help us attract and retain the brightest and the best talent," said Thomas Cho, Senior Vice President Operations. "The plant is ten miles from the US distribution infrastructure and within easy reach of Baja California's best technical schools, a major source of the skilled personnel we plan to employ in the area."
The contract manufacturing plant will contain up to 40 injection molding presses with full automation from 35-700 tons of clamping pressure, optimized material flow, flexible cell-based assembly, tooling repair and maintenance. All will be integrated into UPG's leading lean manufacturing and program management processes.

UPG Web site

Manufacturing in Mexico - Saltillo Coahuila

Site of such industry giants as General Motors, Chrysler, Renault, John Deere and Kimberly Clark, the city of 700,000 is a mecca for industrial manufacturing with an extensive supplier base. Saltillo is the capital of the Mexican state of Coahuila, which ranks second in the country in international exports. The automotive industry so dominates the local economy that Saltillo is often called "Little Detroit." Saltillo is also termed the "Athens of Mexico," because of the dense concentration of educational institutions clustered in the city. Saltillo's population is so well educated that the locals have a saying: "when you pick up a stone and there is an engineer under it". A well-developed infrastructure, research facilities, a network of suppliers, an educated population and hundreds of schools and universities make Saltillo a natural choice for businesses seeking to enter the maquiladora program.

Realizing the benefits to its customers, The Offshore Group began providing shelter services in Saltillo in 1997 in its La Angostura Industrial Park. Current clients include ITT Industries, Unison Industries, Senior Aerospace, Kauffman Engineering, Tal Port and Turck, Inc.

Offshore group Web site

AKT, plastic injection in Mexico

AKT Altmarker Kunststoff-Technik GmbH of Gardelegen, Germany has signed a contract with The Offshore Group of Tucson, Arizona for the provision of outsourced manufacturing support, or "shelter" services in Saltillo, Mexico. The company has signed a lease agreement for the rental of 34,822 square feet of industrial space at The Offshore Group's La Angostura Industrial Park. AKT will join other German manufacturers OKE GmbH and Turck, Inc. at the site. At the project's maturity AKT will employ approximately 83 direct labor employees. The company will manufacture injected molded parts for automotive industry applications. According to Customer Business Unit Director, Roland Kluhspies, "Our decision to establish an operation in Mexico was predicated on a desire to offer our customers a low cost North American solution. We have great faith in the productivity of the workforce located at The Offshore Group's interior location at Saltillo."
AKT headquarters is in Gardelegen/Altmark, Germany. The company was founded in 1991 and is one of the leading manufacturers of plastic injection moulding parts.
AKT offers numerous products that have been further refined through finishing processes and is able to deliver painted parts, flocked parts and IMD foil parts as well as complex assembly for the interior, engine and safety and security areas.
With international locations in Europe and overseas, AKT is ideally positioned to meet the challenge of global competition.

About The Offshore Group

The Tucson-based Offshore Group currently provides outsourced manufacturing support, or "shelter," services to 60 global companies in the automotive, aerospace, electronics, HVAC, medical device and general manufacturing industries.

Source: http://www.offshoregroup.com

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