In Mexicali these days the hottest news is no longer the weather. The capital city of Baja California is beginning to emerge as a technology center. The latest news is Honeywell’s construction start on a $40 million lab where it will develop technologies for commercial aircraft.

      Honeywell says it will hire nearly 800 workers in the first stage and eventually reach 1,500 workers. Several hundred are expected to be Mexican engineers.

      Sergio Tagliapietra Nassri, Baja California secretary of industrial development, said this project was won thanks to the reforms to the state law regarding industrial development.

      He also said that the change of this law was a strategy of the state, together with the business sector to promote high technology development and design investments.

      Tagliapietra said Honeywell searched the world for the place to build the first test laboratory outside of the places where it manufactures its airplanes. The plant is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter.

Mexicali advantages

                                                                                                           With a population of 886,201, Mexicali is one of the 10 largest cities in Mexico. With an annual growth of 2.3 percent and having 65 percent of the population under age of 30, Mexicali’s labor force will grow significantly in the following years. Mexicali has the advantage that its people have been trained in different technical programs as well as in universities.

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