OUR LOCATION
Our location in Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico, 365 miles south of the U.S.-Mexican
border at Nogales, Arizona offers an attractive environment for
your plant by providing:
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Substantially lower costs than in Mexican border
cities or metropolitan areas.
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A plentiful local supply of young, well-educated
hourly workers, with excellent work ethic and
extremely low turnover.
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Easy-to-recruit, experienced managerial,
supervisory and technical personnel.
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A short overnight trip of 365 miles from the U.S. border at Nogales, Arizona
via a four lane limited access toll
highway.
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Daily commercial air service from Los Angeles and
Phoenix as well as Monterrey and Mexico City via AeroMexico to Ciudad
Obregon (35 miles north of Navojoa) and from
Phoenix via U.S. Airways to Guaymas (100 miles north of Navojoa).
The Cuidad Obregon International Airport is located 56 kilometers
north of Navajoa on International Highway 15.
Navojoa is safe,
has an ample supply of labor and support facilities for manufacturing
operations.
The Navajoa Industrial Park is located 4.5 kilometers south of the
city on the east side of International Highway 15
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Navojoa is in a safe, tranquil area, far from
metropolitan areas and border cities where the drug trade and crime against
persons has become a problem. There
are an estimated 322,000 people in the Navojoa region. of which 155,000 are in
the City of Navojoa
itself. Though well educated, 35% of the population is
considered to be under-employed or unemployed, creating a large labor pool for
employment in our clients' manufacturing plants.
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The major activity in the region is agriculture.
Industrial plants employ only a small portion of the economically active
population. We have no problem
recruiting and retaining educated, capable workers for our clients’ plants.
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With its agricultural base, Navojoa has good
support facilities in place for manufacturing operations, such as machine shops,
welders, motor repair shops and the like.
Additional support facilities can be found in the nearby city of
Ciudad Obregon and the state capital of
Hermosillo. Factory service is available for virtually
all industrial machinery and equipment from easily accessible locations.
