The border states of Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua are three of the mainstays in the maquila industry. Here you find major electronics manufacturers, auto assembly plants and everything in between.

      Baja California’s main economic activities include trade, restaurants and hotels (with a 28.3 percent share in the state’s GDP). It is one of Mexico’s most dynamic states. In manufacturing, the main activity is electronic equipment production/assembly (with a 22.1 percent share in the state’s GDP), followed by community, social and personal services (17.9 percent).

      In recent years the economic areas have increasingly diversified by incorporating high technology content productive processes and creating productive chains. Access to new production processes has increased due to the economic relation between the Mexican and the U.S. economies, as well as to the fact that 31.9 percent of 15 year old and older Baja California population has a middle or middle-higher education, which facilitates incorporation of labor to advanced technologies.

Sharp plant

      Sharp Corporation recently opened a second plant newly built inside the compound of Sharp Electrónica México S.A. de C.V. (SEMEX), Sharp’s production base in Rosarito, B.C. for LCD modules and LCD TVs destined for the North American market.

      The Mexico Plant started operation in 1997 as a color CRT TV manufacturing plant, and began production of LCD TVs in 2003. To meet the burgeoning demand for LCD TVs in the North American market, Sharp constructed a new plant (Plant No.2) on the grounds of the current plant, and began the integrated production of LCD TVs - from manufacture of LCD modules to assembly of LCD TVs - first time in North America. The start of operations at Plant No.2 gives Sharp the ability to produce...

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