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INCERTEC Expande Operaciones de Platinado en Mexico

kandemedina — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:38:30 +0000

FRIDLEY, Minn. (September 19, 2011) —INCERTEC, a specialty plating, metal finishing and engineering solutions company based in Fridley, Minnesota, announced today that it has expanded its operations to Mexico by purchasing the assets of CRS Aerospace in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico.
The expansion will allow INCERTEC to provide cost savings and geographical efficiencies to customers in the aerospace, medical device, electronics and connector industries.
“In the industries we serve, precision is critical” stated Tim Meador, Chief Executive Officer and President of INCERTEC. “By adding this location, we can provide manufacturers doing business in Mexico the same consistency, quality and delivery provided by our U.S. location.”
In addition to companies with operations in Mexico, INCERTEC expects to serve the California market as well as U.S. clients with multiple divisions who currently work with different plating partners across
the country.
Initially the new INCERTEC plant will provide secondary processes such as NADCAP-certified anodizing types I, II and II, Chemfilm, cleaning, passivate, paint and NDT (non-destructive testing).
Within the next year, the new plant will also offer the same processes as its Fridley, Minnesota location, including plating on plastics. Protecting the environment is integrated into all of INCERTEC’s processes, and the Empalme plant will utilize the same state-of-the-art water treatment system as the Minnesota location, allowing them to return clean water to the earth.
INCERTEC is headquartered in Fridley, Minnesota and is committed to innovation, certification and technology to provide highly-engineered, custom plating solutions for clients including Honeywell, Goodrich, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin. INCERTEC has certifications from NADCAP, ISO 9001, AS9100 and others. For more information, visit the company’swebsite at www.incertec.com.

Faurecia North America Honors Two Plants for Exceptional Performance in Safety, Quality and Employee Empowerment

kandemedina — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:59:09 +0000

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Tier-one automotive supplier Faurecia (www.faurecia.com), recently honored employees from its emission control technologies production plant in Hermosillo, Mexico and its interior systems production plant in Fountain Inn, S.C., for their exceptional performance in quality, safety and employee empowerment. The awards were presented at Faurecia North America’s annual managers’ conference in Rochester, Mich.

The annual awards were based on meeting and exceeding defined criteria related to overall performance and improvement.

•Faurecia’s emissions control technologies facility in Hermosillo, Mexico, was recognized for outstanding performance for safety by achieving zero lost-time accidents, industry-leading quality performance, and employee empowerment efforts that resulted in more than 61 implemented improvement ideas per person.
•Faurecia’s interior systems facility in Fountain Inn, S.C., was recognized as the most improved plant for consistency in safety and achieving zero lost-time accidents, improvements in quality, and increasing implemented improvement ideas per person by 70 percent. This is the second consecutive year that the Fountain Inn plant has been honored as the most improved plant in North America.

“Being named the most improved plant two years in a row makes us even more determined to continue our success with the goal of receiving the outstanding performance award next year,” said Martin Round, plant manager of Faurecia’s Fountain Inn facility. “We are extremely proud of all the hours and dedication our team has put into improving our site’s production in each of the categories.”

In addition to the plant awards, Faurecia also honored two sites for their outstanding efforts in community service. As part of its FUELS (Faurecia Unites Employees for Local Service) program the Hermosillo, Mexico and Northwood, Ohio, plants were honored for donating 18,245 lbs and 4,933 lbs of food respectively to local food banks in September 2010.

“We are proud of how well all of our sites have performed and honored to be able to recognize those sites that have gone above and beyond this year,” said Michael Heneka, president of Faurecia North America. “The awards program has been a great driver in bringing employees together, with everyone working toward achieving one common goal and continuously improving our overall performance as a company.”

Faurecia is the sixth-largest automotive supplier in the world and the ninth-largest in North America. It specializes in automotive seating, emissions control technologies, interior systems and automotive exteriors. The annual regional awards recognize exceptional performance and instill a sense of community and pride in the plants that excel in the required categories.

For the latest updates on Faurecia activities throughout North America, connect with the company at www.facebook.com/faureciaNA and www.twitter.com/faurecia_NA.

About Faurecia North America

Faurecia North America had sales of $3.4 billion in 2010. The Group has 32 production sites in the United States, Canada and Mexico and employs more than 10,000 people in the region. It has four technical and development centers, situated in Auburn Hills, Holland and Troy, Mich., and in Columbus, Ind., as well as a customer center in Toledo, Ohio.

About Faurecia

Faurecia is the world’s sixth-largest automotive supplier with four key Business Groups: Automotive Seating, Emissions Control Technologies, Interior Systems and Automotive Exteriors. In 2010, the Group posted total sales of $18.22 billion. The company is headquartered in Nanterre, France, with its North American headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich. It employs 75,000 people in 33 countries at 238 sites and 38 R&D centers. Faurecia is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange. For more information, visit: www.faurecia.com.

SOURCE Faurecia North America

FDI American Cities of the Future 2011/12 Awards Ceremony

kandemedina — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:54:21 +0000

Over 150 individuals assembled for the inaugural awards ceremony for FDI American Cities of the Future. The audience included mayors and other government officials, a number of whom had travelled from Latin America and Canada to attend.

The mayors of Fredericton and Mississauga in Canada; Hermosillo and Querétaro in Mexico; Richmond, Virginia and Wooster, Ohio, in the US, accepted awards on behalf of their cities.

FDI American Cities of the Future recognises cities which have the best prospects for inward investment, economic development and business expansion. The results were released in the April / May issue of FDI Magazine and the awards ceremony was held on Wednesday, June 29 in Washington, DC. The full results are available online, www.fdiintelligence.com/Rankings.

Courtney Fingar, editor of FDI Magazine, commented: “The Americas are home to many of the world’s most established investment destinations as well as some of the fastest emerging ones, making it a highly competitive and diverse region for FDI. Given the strength of the rankings methodology, large field of competitor cities and sheer scale of such a benchmarking exercise, those cities marked for recognition deserve to be proud of their efforts. FDI Magazine congratulates them.”

Firma Rolls-Royce acuerdo de colaboración con el Gobierno de Sonora

kandemedina — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:05:29 +0000

Paris, Francia.- La empresa global de sistemas de generación de energía Rolls-Royce y el Gobierno del Estado de Sonora, anunciaron su colaboración para apoyar el desarrollo de la cadena de proveeduría de la compañía británica en dicha entidad.

Durante la 49 internacional “Paris Air Show – Le Bourget”, que tiene lugar en la capital francesa, las partes anunciaron un esquema de participación cuyo eje central de colaboración consistirá en la asignación de trabajo para apoyar el desarrollo de un clúster de la industria aeroespacial en Sonora.

Moisés Gómez Reyna, Secretario de Economía del Estado, comentó que este compromiso de largo plazo con Rolls-Royce apoya la estrategia de manufactura de componentes para turbina, que tiene como objetivo ofrecer fundición, maquinados y procesos especiales en un solo clúster.

“Este acuerdo de voluntades –único en el país- entre Rolls-Royce y el gobierno de Sonora, permitirá incentivar a nuestros proveedores aeronáuticos ya instalados en el estado y a los que decidan hacerlo en un futuro, para trabajar en componentes cada vez más complejos, haciéndolos más capaces y competitivos globalmente”, destacó.

El funcionario resaltó que la instalación de empresas proveedoras de primera línea de Rolls-Royce en el estado de Sonora, “implica el inicio con el pie derecho para consolidar un plan de trabajo estratégico para los proveedores actuales y futuros de una de las más importantes compañías fabricantes de turbinas a nivel mundial”.

Gómez Reyna recordó que actualmente operan en la entidad las empresas Trac, Goodrich y Esco, todas proveedoras de Rolls-Royce, y ubicadas bajo el shelter de Offshore Group en la región de Guaymas-Empalme.

Por su parte, Mike Orris, Chief Procurement Officer (el más alto ejecutivo de adquisiciones globales de la empresa británica), dijo que Rolls-Royce es una compañía global y requiere de una cadena de proveeduría competitiva globalmente para poder responder efectivamente a las necesidades de su base de clientes en el mundo.
“Nuestra cooperación con el estado de Sonora nos ayudará a conseguir este importante objetivo”, expresó el ejecutivo.

Durante la firma de la carta de intención celebrada este martes en el Paris Air Show estuvieron, por parte de Rolls-Royce, Mike Orris, Chief Procurement Officer; Andrew Cavaciuti, Interational Business Head of Region y Daniele Roberts, International Business Executive.

Por parte del gobierno de Sonora participaron Moisés Gómez Reyna, Secretario de Economía; Francisco Búrquez Valenzuela, Presidente del Consejo para la Promoción Económica (Copreson); Enrique Ruiz Sánchez, Director General de dicho organismo, y Lorenzo Galván García, Subsecretario de Economía.

Sargent Earns Supplier Gold Status from United Technologies Corporation

kandemedina — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:35:43 +0000

Tucson, Arizona, June 9, 2011 – Sargent Aerospace & Defense, a leading supplier of precision engineered components and aftermarket services, announced that on June 2 the company was presented Supplier Gold Status by United Technologies Corporation.

“Sargent is a key supplier of flight-critical components to UTC’s Hamilton Sundstrand, Pratt & Whitney, and Sikorsky companies,” said Scott Still, president, Sargent Aerospace & Defense.
“Recognition from these companies and UTC as a whole validates the emphasis we place on highly engineered solutions and outstanding customer service.”

According to Hamilton Sundstrand, Sargent’s Guaymas, Mexico facility is the first in that country to win the UTC Supplier Gold distinction. It is located in The Offshore Group’s Roca Fuerte Industrial Park.

“UTC’s Supplier Gold recognition program was established to acknowledge superior performance over a 12-month period in the areas of quality, delivery, lean and customer satisfaction,” said Robert Murray, vice president of supply chain at Hamilton Sundstrand. “Sargent’s performance over the past year has been exceptional.”

Sargent has adopted UTC’s lean assessment and other tools across all facilities and hopes to achieve Supplier Gold status at American and Canadian facilities during the next 12 months.

About Sargent
Founded in 1920, Sargent Aerospace & Defense is a premier global supplier of precision-engineered customized components as well as flight-critical aftermarket aviation services. Leveraging 90 years of expertise, Sargent directly contributes to the safe operation of countless commercial and military aircraft and rotorcraft, submarines and land-based vehicles. Sargent’s continuing investment in people, assets, technology and process quality ensures excellence and is integral to the company’s commitment to customers and their end-users. For more information, visit www.sargentaerospace.com

Inauguran Teamwork Athletic Apparel en San Luis Río Colorado

kandemedina — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:04:57 +0000

Teamwork Athletic Apparel, la maquiladora de uniformes deportivos, inauguró su nave industrial el pasado 2 de junio en la ciudad de San Luis Río Colorado. Esta empresa cuenta con plantas en Asia, Centro América y Estados Unidos.
Así San Luis Río Colorado se coloca al nivel competitivo de estas regiones. Aquí se generarán aproximadamente 125 empleos, además de la derrama económica que se derivará por los insumos y búsqueda de distribuidores locales para la adquisición de materia prima.

Ubican a Hermosillo y Guaymas como ¨ciudades del futuro¨

kandemedina — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:16:18 +0000

En el top 10 de costo beneficio para grandes ciudades, es decir que tienen características para ser consideradas urbes del futuro, publicada por FDI Magazine, del diario británico The Financial Times aparece Hermosillo.

En el mismo tenor, pero en cuanto a ciudades pequeñas, está Guaymas.

La capital de Sonora se ubica al nivel de ciudades como Tuxtla Gutiérrez, San Luis Potosí, Matamoros y Torreón.

De acuerdo con un comunicado del gobierno estatal de Chiapas, el estudio de la publicación FDI Intelligence consideró una base de datos de la división de inteligencia en inversiones de la revista -en 450 ciudades en Norteamérica y Sudamérica- evaluando seis categorías.

“Potencial económico, recursos humanos, costo-beneficio, calidad de vida, infraestructura y ambiente amigable para los negocios”.

Por cada una de estas categorías se realizó un listado de las ciudades en América que más destacaron en estos rubros específicos, los cuales a su vez toman en cuenta 90 variables como salarios, costos de exportación e importación, percepción de corrupción y desempleo.

Los precios de petróleo, logística, número de patentes, número de universidades, cobertura hospitalaria, índices de criminalidad, conectividad aérea, etcétera.

Según el gobierno chiapaneco, esta es la primera ocasión que dicha publicación realiza un listado para Latinoamérica.

Industria Aeroespacial

Copreson — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:29:15 +0000

Invierte en Sonora

Copreson — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:24:37 +0000

Video promocional de Sonora

Copreson — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:00:27 +0000