Desalination plant investment in Baja California
By Adina Moloman Source: Global Water Intelligence; Water World Weekly Newscast. Rosarito, Baja California was selected for developing a 379,000 cubic meters per day facility and 40-kilometer pipeline desalination plant to serve customers in both Baja California, Mexico and the California, US. The investment is actually a joint venture of NSC Agua[1], that is 50 […]
Biotechnology industry is growing fast in Mexico
By Adina Moloman Source: San Diego Dialogue publication “Borderless Innovation”, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) portal www.fda.gov There are four strategic life science regions identified in Mexico: Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos and Nuevo Leon with strong clinical research clusters and other clusters related to FDI more specifically oriented to pharmaceutical manufacturing. In the past years […]
Sustainable Lighting Program
By Adina Moloman Source: World Bank, Siglo 21 Through “Sustainable Lighting” Program, Mexico is showing that it is possible to implement a large-scale energy efficiency program in the residential sector. With this program, the public may exchange working incandescent bulbs (4 pieces) for other 4 energy saving CFL bulbs at designated sites set up in […]
New office of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) in Baja California
By Adina Moloman Source: IMPI, US Department of State, SE Baja California is open to foreign direct investment (FDI) in most economic sectors and has consistently been one of the largest recipients of FDI among other Mexico Manufacturing regions or any other global regions from emerging markets. In order to compete Baja California with its […]
New export permits in Mexico on conventional weapons and dual-use goods
By Adina Moloman Sources: SE, Secretaria de Gobernacion On June 16th 2011, in Mexico was published a decree that regulates export control regime for conventional weapons, dual-use goods, software and technologies that pose a risk of interception, which it actually came into effect on October 21, 2011. All this mentioned above are subject to an […]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement (TPP)
By Adina Moloman Source: Foreign Affairs This month all the attention is on the final decision over Japan joining the TPP and what that means for the Asia -Pacific Region. November 12, 2011, the Leaders of the nine Trans-Pacific Partnership from developed countries such as United States, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, and developing countries that […]
Biotechnological Medicine in Mexico
By Adina Moloman Source: www.presidencia.gob.mx/latest news Last month President Calderon announced the new Health Input Regulation Reform. This will be a good opportunity in Mexico for the pharmaceutical industry that will be able to develop new medicines and increase their market. Mexico’s General Health Law was reformed on June 11, 2009, where the law was […]
Baja California to host G20 summit in 2012
By Adina Moloman Source : Xinhua/English (People’s Daily Online); www.g20-g8.com Following the most recent summit, which was held in Cannes in November 2011, Mexico will chair and host the leaders’ summit in 2012. Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon has officially selected Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, as the host city for the 2012 G20 Summit[1], which […]
Ryerson Opens new Facility in Tijuana
By Adina Moloman Source: Metal Center News; Siglo 21 Ryerson Inc., a major processor and distributor of metals in North America and China, who has developed a network of service centers throughout the United States, Canada and China, has opened last month a new service center in Tijuana. This new investment in Tijuana is part […]
Expo Manufacturing Tecate 2011
By Adina Moloman Source: SEDECO Expo Manufacturing Tecate 2011 took place last Thursday, October 27th, at the Convention Hall Peregrinos in Tecate, B.C, Mexico. This was the first edition and the event, which aimed to provide business opportunities in the region, attract new investments that can encourage the development of the industrial sector in Tecate. […]