Chain Reaction

Durango

Staff Report

      Developments such as the massive LG. Philips Displays project in Gómez Palacio will spark a chain reaction of future projects.

      At least that’s what the Durango government hopes.

      Jorge Andrade Cansino, director of the state’s economic development department, says the evidence is already there. One LG. Philips Displays supplier has announced plans to move next to the television fabrication plant. More suppliers are expected to follow.

      For Durango, this represents an important step in the development of industries other than its traditional garment, mining or forestry. It is another major step toward development of an international industry.

      “Durango had the traditional production chains that were oriented toward the domestic market; those productive areas that had been developed with the old Mexico that had been growing within itself and not toward foreign markets,” Andrade says. “Durango could not build its future in the potential growth that the state could still have ...

...Continued in the pages of Twin Plant News, Subscribe Today!