Modern Industrial Parks facilities and services offer:

New, refrigerated buildings facilitated to meet your needs. Construction completed in four month guaranteed Loading docks in very fully insulated building Shelter plan available to simplify your maquila operations. Telex, fax and telephone with direct dial worldwide. Industry-standard electrical service.

Abundant potable water and sewer service. Landscaped areas within parks. Wide, paved streets, curbs, street lights, fire hydrants. Close to worker housing and city bus lines. Access to major thoroughfares. Security service and controlled access to park areas.

Advantages of Operating in the Interior of Mexico

However, maquilas located in large interior cities like Hermosillo, draw their workers from established residential areas. As a result, employee turnover is very low because these workers return to their own homes and families each night. They are happy and become highly productive permanent employees of maquilas.

Unlike some Mexican cities hosting many maquilas operations, Hermosillo is just discovering of the benefits of the maquiladora program. Young Mexicans – rich in loyalty, eager to learn and offer employers their inherent pride of workmanship – are abundantly available. And Hermosillo’s fine educational systems produces a broad range of skills for industry: professional, managerial, administrative, technical and production oriented.

Continued acceptance and growth of the maquiladora program is assured because the State of Sonora has given priority to the development of the industry in this capital city, Hermosillo.

Facts about Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

Hermosillo, capital of state of Sonora, is a semi-tropical city of more than a half-million. This dynamic, attractive city provides all the amenities one expects to find in a major cultural/economic center. Wide, tree-lined boulevards lead to beautiful homes, old churches and modern office buildings. Temperature ranges from 40º to 100+º F and rainfall is less than 10 inches a year.

Fishing and water sports abound in Kino Bay, San Carlos and Guaymas on the nearby Gulf of California – Mexico’s Mediterranean ". Tucson, Arizona, is just a 4 hour drive north over a modern 4-lane divided highway.

Hermosillo’s modern educational system provides 571 grade and high schools, technical, industrial and commercial colleges with a faculty or more than 7,000. Medical services include 32 hospitals and clinics. Hermosillo offers global direct dial telephone service as well as telegraph, telex, fax, and U.S. cable T.V.

The quality of life workers skills and availability as well as support services offered in this industry untapped metropolitan area are graphically demonstrated by the fact that the Ford Motor Company selected Hermosillo as the location for the most modern stamping and auto assembly facility in the world.

Distance from Hermosillo to:

Nogales, Sonora/Arizona	175 miles
Tucson. Arizona	240 miles
Phoenix, Arizona	340 miles
San Diego, California	575 miles

Transportation

AIR - From Hermosillo International Airport: direct flights to Tucson, AZ, to Los Angeles, CA, via Tijuana, connecting to major U. S. Cities; to Mexico City, Guadalajara, Los Mochis, Chihuahua, Monterrey, Culiacan and Ciudad Obregon.

RAIL - Piggyback service to California and Arizona connecting to major U.S. cities through Nogales, Sonora / Arizona.

HIGHWAY - Modern International Highway 15 serves north and south-bound routes. Secondary roads serve surrounding communities.

TRUCK - A large number of domestic and international freight carriers serve Hermosillo.

SEA - Guaymas, 87 miles south by divided highway. And uncrowned international marine terminal equipped to handle container cargo and break bulk cargo quickly due to low traffic volume. Kino Bay is 66 miles west.