The Mexican electronics manufacturing industry has gone through a roller coaster ride in recent years. At the turn of the century, Mexican electronics manufacturers suffered a series of blows as the U.S. electronics industry went through a deep recession in 2001. A significant number of U.S. manufacturers sought to lower their labor costs by moving operations to China and other less expensive locations. The Mexican electronics manufacturing industry weathered the storm and is on the rebound now, thanks to innovative and resilient companies like Sanmina-SCI.

      Sanmina-SCI Corporation is one of the world’s leading electronics contract manufacturers. The company provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions to Original Equipment Manufacturers primarily in the communications, defense and aerospace, industrial and medical instrumentation, multimedia, computing and storage, and automotive technology sectors.

      Sanmina-SCI provides manufacturing services to companies of all sizes, geographic locations and end markets. One of the keys to the company’s success is its vast global footprint. With strategic locations in 20 countries on five continents, Sanmina-SCI is able to provide customers with numerous geographic options and the ability to compete in today’s global market.

      So why did this multinational corporation with facilities in regions spanning the globe, choose Guadalajara to be its largest manufacturing campus?

      In 1987, Sanmina-SCI decided to build a world-class manufacturing facility in Mexico. The company selected Guadalajara to be the site for this new facility, and became the first contract manufacturer to establish operations in Mexico’s second largest city. Guadalajara was selected because it offered the strongest combination of infrastructure, talent and location.

      Mexico is an attractive manufacturing location because of its proximity to the large U.S. market.  In fact, 95 percent of the products manufactured in Sanmina-SCI’s Guadalajara facility are sold in the United States. While Guadalajara is not a border town, the company’s trucks can deliver products over the U.S. border in less than 18 hours. Guadalajara is also only a three-hour drive from the Port of Manzanillo, Mexico’s largest port per volume of cargo. Sanmina-SCI is able to ship materials and components from China and other facilities to the Guadalajara location through this port...

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