the Swedish-based manufacturer of high-end automobiles will increase its planned investment in Ciénega de Flores Nuevo León from US$700 million to US$1 billion the official said that the plant that will make cargo trucks will begin operations in 2026 “I am informed from Volvo's global headquarters in Sweden that they have decided to increase the scheduled investment in Ciénega de Flores ,Nuevo León The plant that will make cargo trucks will start operation in 2026 which remains to be confirmed by the company comes a day after the United States announced a series of reciprocal tariffs for dozens of countries excluding Mexico and Canada thanks to the trade agreement it has with them The plant is located in an area of 94 hectares and a Pocket Park of 26 hectares will be built in front of it where suppliers of the Swedish assembler could be installed To give an idea of the magnitude of the construction there are 200,000 square meters of construction The first stone of the plant was laid in October last year We’re in the business of providing relevant information through print and electronic media organizing events to bring industrial value chain actors together and services to create new business relationships Our goal is to improve our clients’ competitiveness Swedish car manufacturer Volvo announced that it had selected the state of Nuevo León as the site for its new North American heavy-duty truck factory with an estimated investment of US $700 million The new 160,000 square-meter facility will be located in Ciénega de Flores about 30 kilometers northeast of the state capital of Monterrey Volvo plans for operations to begin in 2026 and expects the site to create 2,500 jobs BIENVENIDO @volvocars Esta empresa se suma al boom económico de Nuevo León con una inversión de 700 MILLONES DE DÓLARES para construir su NUEVA PLANTA Sin duda, Nuevo León es el mejor lugar para invertir y hacer negocios… Y VAMOS POR MÁS. pic.twitter.com/BySrOjWmY0 — Samuel García (@samuel_garcias) August 23, 2024 which has targeted growth in North America as a strategic priority says the new manufacturing plant will support production in the United States supplying Volvo Trucks and Mack Trucks for the U.S The factory will also produce Mack Trucks for the Mexican and Latin American markets “Monterrey provides significant logistical efficiencies for supporting sales to the southwestern and western regions of the U.S. and to Mexico and Latin America,” Volvo said in a statement issued from its headquarters in Gothenburg Nuevo León Governor Samuel García had announced Volvo’s plans in a video posted on social media on Monday. In a statement released Friday, García said he was pleased with the decision “This will be among the biggest investments of [my term in office].” Nuevo León was also chosen as the site for a new multi-billion dollar Tesla “gigafactory,” announced in March 2023, but which CEO Elon Musk recently said is on hold pending the outcome of the U.S local director of the automotive industry association Clúster Automotriz told the newspaper Milenio that the arrival of Volvo will attract European automotive suppliers to the state “This will stimulate job growth for local businesses,” Montoya said pointing out that the region is also home to the two biggest truck manufacturing plants in North America — Navistar is based in the Monterrey suburb of Escobedo and Freightliner is located in Madero The Ciénega de Flores site was chosen after months of deliberation with Volvo considering various locations in Nuevo León and Coahuila Volvo also operates a smaller factory in Tultitlán where the company has been manufacturing buses for 26 years With reports from Telediario, El Financiero and Reforma ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region 102,000+ key contacts related to companies and projects news and interviews about your industry in English NUEVO LEON - Volvo Group started the construction of its first cargo truck plant in Nuevo León which will be the company's largest in the world and will start operations in the summer of 2026 located in the municipality of Ciénega de Flores will seek to meet the demand for up to 25,000 trucks per year “The Mexican market continues to expand; we are talking about an industry that buys 25,000 heavy duty trucks per year It is strategic for us to focus on growing in this area,” said Stephen Roy The project required an investment of US$700 million and will generate up to 2,500 jobs for the state The ceremony and protocol ceremony was attended by local authorities and executives of the Swedish company who highlighted Nuevo León as one of the ideal destinations to grow their business and invest The land where the plant will be built is 127 hectares in size of which 94 hectares will be used for the factory and the rest for the implementation of a Pocket Park where suppliers can be installed Roy also said that this plant will assemble the latest and most modern products "Mexico is an important market for our industry,” he said a commitment was also made to offer them the possibility of supplying the North American market with the latest products Nuevo León from many countries and many states in Mexico to build its largest plant in the world because of the logistics and proximity to the United States they will use the new customs through the La Gloria-Colombia highway” He also said that it will be a priority to completely rehabilitate the road to Laredo “Together with the mayor (of Ciénega de Flores) we are going to manage the complete repair of the road to Laredo and make the roads and enough accessories so that in a year and a half the plant will be working and the accesses will be ready,” the governor said president of GP Construcción y GP Desarrollos the company that will be in charge of the design and construction of the plant emphasized that “Volvo has placed its trust in Nuevo León and today this challenge has become a tangible reality announced in a press release that the opening ceremony of its new assembly plant will be held on October 15 at the GP Industrial Norte Park “Join us at the inaugural ceremony of the company's latest capital investment on Tuesday October 15 at the GP Industrial Norte Park in Ciénega de Flores,” the release detailed Volvo Group announced that it would make a US$700 million investment in a plant in the state of Nuevo Leon focused on the production of heavy vehicles for Volvo and Mack “The plant will complement the group's U.S production and provide additional capacity to support Volvo Trucks' and Mack Trucks' growth plans in the U.S as well as new Mack truck sales in Mexico and Latin America The assembly plant is expected to be operational in 2026,” said the statement sent from its headquarters in Gothenburg The land on which the heavy truck plant will be located is 1.7 million square feet (157,935 square meters) hangs on the wall in José Luis Martínez Cruz’s room in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León The abandoned Minecraft world the 14-year-old built with Lego bricks sits in his closet On the armchair where Martínez Cruz used to toss his clothes a banner with his photo and the word “DESAPARECIDO” hangs above the date he was last seen: Dec The other side of the banner reads “Te extrañamos amor.” It was a sweltering Saturday in July when I met Martínez Cruz’s mother in the kitchen of her home in Salinas Victoria her third son had been missing for seven months The 49-year-old mother spent much of our interview distracted by her cell phone awaiting any clue that would lead to her son’s whereabouts Cruz lives in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Salinas surrounded by bare cement block houses that look unfinished and vacant lots filled with trash and tall weeds Cruz shared with me one of the last photos she took of her son Cruz has been a cog in the celebrated machine of globalization She assembles auto parts in one of the many factories in Salinas Victoria Cruz stands for roughly 12 hours on a production line for the manufacture of car door handles The finished products are shipped to Laredo the busiest trade hub on the U.S.-Mexico border she gets in the company van for the hour commute home at least 31 people have been declared missing this year Local residents say the real number is larger These are young people who left their homes to visit friends in the evening and have not been heard from since witnesses saw people following them in black trucks The same trucks have been seen arriving at houses in the middle of the night with armed men who forcibly remove residents the city is experiencing rapid growth due to a new wave of foreign investment Salinas Victoria sits less than three hours from the Colombia Solidarity International Bridge the only border crossing between Nuevo León and Texas making it ideal for the “near-shoring” of production to supply the world’s largest consumer market Salinas Victoria is now home to industrial parks such as the Hofusan a 2,100-acre manufacturing site built by Chinese investors and global automotive suppliers such as Japan’s Tokai Rika and South Korea’s Hyundai Mobis The Nuevo León government boasts that the state is primed to become a major hub for electric vehicle manufacturing Tesla plans to build a new Gigafactory on the outskirts of Santa Catarina about 35 miles southwest of Salinas Victoria.Chinese company Noah Itech is investing $100 million in the construction of its first plant in Mexico; South Korean automotive manufacturer Kia pledged $408 million The flood of foreign investment in Nuevo León has fueled the steady expansion of the Monterrey metropolitan region toward the state’s northern border with the U.S but not necessarily for the residents of Salinas Victoria and other towns in northern Nuevo León Their homes have turned into a conflict zone with hostile cartels vying for control of logistics and shipping corridors These conflicting developments force the question: What good is an economic boom if the state cannot bring order to it and the result is the deaths and disappearances of children like José Luis Martínez Cruz The highways connecting Nuevo León to the U.S are among the best selling points the government of Nuevo León has to offer carrier organizations and truck drivers decry the risks they face on the road from abuse and extortion by authorities to robberies and kidnappings by organized crime (often with the complicity of local police) Nuevo León delegate of the Mexican Alliance of Carriers Organization said his group has urged authorities to do more as its drivers have become a popular target of crime “But now it is also the vehicles and the kidnapping of drivers.” dubbed the “highway of terror,” over 70 people disappeared during 2021 according to United Forces for Our Disappeared in Nuevo León a group that includes families of the missing Most of the victims were truck drivers carrying goods that there is no trace because the authorities do not investigate,” said Angelica Orozco who joined United Forces for Our Disappeared after a former university classmate vanished in Monterrey during the first years of the war on drugs Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar acknowledged the importance of Nuevo León as a leader in North American supply chain integration Although local business people have expressed concern about the security situation companies have chosen Nuevo León for reasons of confidence But when pressed at a news conference by this reporter “You can’t have integration if these roads are not safe.” What good is an economic boom if the state cannot bring order to it and the result is the deaths and disappearances of children like José Luis Martínez Cruz As part of the state’s efforts to improve transportation infrastructure so that Nuevo León can boast “the fastest and safest border crossing in Mexico,” the state government has unveiled what it calls a Master Road Plan a 35-year-old former senator who came to power in 2021 thanks to the support of his wife’s social media following promised well-armed detachments of the National Guard and the Fuerza Civil state police to secure exports to the U.S As Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador further militarizes public security García also announced the opening of a new military base that would house 600 soldiers in the municipality of Cerralvo to “shield” the border with Tamaulipas While Tamaulipas faces endless cycles of violence due to disputes between drug cartels After NAFTA, the number of cargo trucks crossing the U.S.-Mexico border increased, while drug trafficking routes became more accessible. But this rapid growth also brought a surge in drug-related violence in many border cities such as Matamoros or Reynosa in Tamaulipas who investigates informal cross-border trade in northern Nuevo Léon at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology explains that the state’s desire to protect certain sectors implies the presence of new state agents and new security policies on many of these routes that were already under the control of cartels (with the support of some authorities) As trade increases and smuggling routes become more accessible and attractive “All of this is nothing more than a control of routes and plazas,” Sandoval added referencing the regional organizations that control drug trafficking networks At least nine other young men disappeared on the same day as José Luis Martínez Cruz (The prosecutor’s office and the local search commission didn’t respond to my request for interviews.) Cruz learned from one of the victims who returned that Martínez Cruz was still alive and being held in a safe house where a criminal group allegedly took the young men Statements from witnesses indicate that some of them may have undergone forced recruitment A recent study published in the journal Science estimates that organized crime is the fifth-largest employer in Mexico and recruits some 350 new members every week to replace their losses in manpower due to arrests and murders Another woman I met whose family has been victimized says she knows who kidnapped her husband in front of their home in downtown Salinas in the early morning hours of Aug (I’ve changed Andrea’s name to protect her identity along with the names of other victims.) The prosecutor’s office did nothing with the information she provided she moved with her five children to a relative’s home in a nearby town fearing that her husband’s kidnappers would return 11 people were reported missing in Salinas according to the National Registry of Disappeared Persons I know at least three other women like me,” said Andrea moved in 2018 with her two sons to Ciénega de Flores “My cousin said that there was a lot of work,” she told me Twenty-eight-year-old Alejandro disappeared in Ciénega on Dec Witnesses said that a pair of men approached him while he was walking down the street and forced him to get in a car “I have nothing else than to look for my son.” Delia had to quit her job as a wire harness assembler for an industrial refrigeration manufacturer to search for her son and care for Alejandro’s seven-year-old daughter she was warned of the risks by her neighbors as more and more cases of missing people cropped up At least 42 people have disappeared in Ciénega this year now for an American company that manufactures drinking water coolers where she works as a machine operator cutting carbon filters Cruz and Delia feel more and more isolated as authorities fail to attend to their cases they worry that organized crime members will harm them or other family members “They [the authorities] have to do something,” Cruz told me are sometimes complicit in the disappearances a dozen state and military law officers arrived at the premises of the Secretariat of Public Security in Ciénega de Flores and a judge were arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping  They were allegedly involved only in two cases that occurred in November 2022 and March 2023  The families of the missing in Ciénega hope that more information will come to light about the relationship between organized crime and state agents in carrying out disappearances Some of the victims have been freed from the clutches of the cartels only on the condition that they sell drugs for them When Delia heard that her neighbor’s nephew was back home and then released after being beaten and told that his family would be harmed if he refused to do the cartel’s bidding When the neighbor asked him about the fate of Delia’s son he said he didn’t know and advised her to “be careful.” So now Delia imagines that her son is on a long journey that’s what she tells her fatherless granddaughter to get through each day and the need for independent journalism has never been greater A new administration is openly attacking free press — and the stakes couldn’t be higher Independent journalism like Truthdig doesn't just report the news — it helps cultivate a better future Your tax-deductible gift powers fearless reporting and uncompromising analysis we can protect democracy and expose the stories that must be told Your feedback is important in helping us keep our community safe Don't miss out on the latest investigations provocative insights and original reporting from a progressive perspective — delivered straight to your inbox Thanks, I’m not interested ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " Iconic toy manufacturer LEGO will invest US $508 million to expand its plant near the northern industrial city of Monterrey Nuevo León Governor Samuel Garcia announced last week Governor García and state Economy Ministry official Emmanuel Loo met with Lego executives at their headquarters in Copenhagen as part of a European working tour promoting the state of Nuevo León as a strategic hub for international business García said that since he took office in October 2021 LEGO has invested US $1 billion in its Ciénega de Flores facilities LEGO undertook a US $200 million expansion project in November 2023 a warehouse extension and other facilities That project added 59,000 square meters of operational space to the current site The governor said that with this latest investment LEGO aims “to make the plant not only the largest in the world but also the most sustainable,” with plans to minimize energy use and increase renewable energy supply García said the expansion will include additional solar panels and increased solar battery storage capacity The factory already features a water treatment and recycling plant that reduces its water consumption — critical infrastructure in drought-prone Nuevo León LEGO COO Carsten Rasmussen thanked Governor García saying his visit reinforced confidence in the relationship between the toy company and the state and their mutual opportunities for growth Rasmussen said he would convey García’s message to the Board of Directors confirming the value Lego places on Nuevo León The LEGO plant has generated 6,300 jobs across the state of Nuevo León It is one of three LEGO factories in the world handling all aspects of the manufacturing and packaging of LEGO products element processing and decoration and packing boxes This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page NUEVO LEON - With an investment of US$35 million inaugurated its plant in Ciénega de Flores where it will manufacture electronic controllers China is already the second country with the most investments in Nuevo Leon only behind the United States," said Ivan Rivas It is worth mentioning that of the 148 investment projects that have been confirmed since the beginning of Samuel García's government The manufacturing of electrical appliances and power generation equipment is one of the most dynamic sectors of the local economy accounting for 17.3% of Nuevo Leon's exports we will be able to better serve the American market and contribute to the development of local industry We will continue to work closely with the government to promote economic development and mutual prosperity,' said Ma Wei Topband is a provider of smart controls technology for home applications and industrial tools the company employs 11,000 people and has a presence in China 3 in the world among manufacturers of heavy machinery and construction equipment has announced intentions to build a second plant in the state of Nuevo León Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG), which arrived in Nuevo León in 2022, said its new plant will be in Ciénega de Flores a municipality near Monterrey that has also had a large Bridgestone tire factory since 2007 Media reports said the new plan will see investment of US $80 million and create 300 new jobs in the state Making the announcement at its annual meeting XCMG noted that it has already created more than 100 jobs in the state a section of Monterrey with a big industrial park makes scissor lifting platforms for the North American market Another Chinese company, the Lingong Machinery Group (LGM), announced in September that it vertical lifts and boom lifts starting this year in a new 10-hectare industrial park in Nuevo León Media reports said the company will invest  $5 billion in a formidable multi-pronged project that will create 7,000 new jobs “When a company decides to expand its operations we [describe] the unique competitive advantages that Nuevo León offers to investors,” said Iván Rivas Rodríguez Chinese furniture manufacturer Kuka Home Mexico is on board. Three weeks ago, it announced plans to expand its plant in Nuevo León which it said is expected to create more than 4,000 jobs XCMG ranked as the third largest original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in the world in 2023, by the KHL Yellow Table, an annual ranking of the world’s top 50 OEMs by sales figures placing it behind only Texas-based Caterpillar ($37.54 billion) and Japan-based Komatsu ($24.65 billion) but ahead of Illinois-based John Deere ($12.53 billion) a city of more than 9 million in China’s northwestern Jiangsu province The company has more than 40 plants and six research and development facilities in Germany With reports from Expansión and El Economista NUEVO LEON – DHL Supply Chain inaugurated its second logistics center in Ciénega de Flores as part of a $500 million euro investment announced this year for Latin America has an area of 50,000 square meters and includes 18 bays 4 ramps and more than 50 fast loading and unloading positions The company will generate 1,000 jobs directly and indirectly with this expansion and more than 2,000 jobs when the three expansions are completed emphasized that the government of Nuevo Leon is committed to supporting DHL Supply Chain’s investment in the state “Nuevo León tends to look for these types of investments investments that come to take care of our environment,” Navarro stressed also highlighted the importance of DHL Supply Chain’s investment for Nuevo León’s competitiveness “Better logistics contributes to our state’s competitiveness and its leadership in the country as the ideal place to invest,” said Rivas DHL Supply Chain Mexico president Mario Rodriguez said the new center will feature state-of-the-art facilities and sustainable equipment “This center will have state-of-the-art facilities access control systems for transportation providers as well as equipment that integrates the company’s sustainability strategy,” Rodriguez said company dedicated to the manufacture of construction platforms and elevators inaugurated its new plant in the municipality of Ciénega de Flores "We are very excited to establish and build our team and operations in the state," said Jeremy Rife vice president of operations of the company the manufacturer of construction platforms and elevators invested US$140 million for its new plant they will produce three types of people lifts and construction platforms "We have a state-of-the-art facility and a highly skilled and capable team in Nuevo Leon that has built a strong culture around our Zero Harm Safety program and corporate values," commented Jeremy Rife During the inauguration of the Terex Genie plant indicated that the state is working to create 240 new industrial parks which will be ready with the necessary infrastructure with public security at exits and entrances with the Army and National Guard so that companies continue to arrive," said the Governor He also emphasized that Nuevo León ranks first in job creation thanks to the arrival of companies such as Terex Genie According to data from the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) a figure that exceeds 77,000 jobs for the whole of 2022 Our goal is to improve our clients’ competitiveness.