With the expansion of Tenaris-Tamsa, a thousand people have been hired to the workforce of the company dedicated to the manufacture of steel pipes, informed the company's Public Relations Manager, Gerardo Cárdenas Hernández. He pointed out that there are 4,700 people working on a permanent basis and that the factory generates around 20,000 indirect jobs per year, benefiting the region and reactivating other suppliers of the international company. The expansion of the facilities that are being made with the investment of 1,600 million dollars will allow production to increase from 800,000 tons

After commenting that in the last 10 years Mexico has worked on market diversification and that as a result South America, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia represent the second most important market for the automotive sector, after the United States, the Executive President of the National Auto Parts Industry (INA), Óscar Albín Santos referred to this state, which, he said, is attractive for companies not only because of its geographical location, but also because of the quality of the labor force it offers. " It is very eloquent to know that Queretaro, despite the fact that it does not have a

MEXICO CITY - The metal-mechanic industry includes everything from screw manufacturers to equipment producers, and the National Chamber of the Transformation Industry (Canacintra) is seeking to boost this sector through certifications, greater linkage and technification of production plants, explained Pablo Alberto Briseño Alonso, liaison president of the metal-mechanic branch of the business organization. The metal-mechanic industry is made up of 18 branches and the lack of an industrial policy aimed at promoting this sector has limited the growth of some of them. For example, according to

Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association belonging to CONFINDUSTRIA, which groups together some 165 makers of machinery, molds and equipment for plastics and rubber) has issued its report on the sector's performance in 2012 – based also on the Italian National Institute of Statistics - ISTAT foreign trade statistics. Even more than in the past – and more markedly than in other Italian mechanical equipment sectors – production output was driven by exports, with an upward trend that, despite levelling off over the year, enabled Italian equipment manufacturers offset extremely weak domestic