Planning a Mexican renewable manufacturing hub to rival China

The Silicon Border industrial park has signed up with global property giant Jones Lang LaSalle to attract renewable-energy companies to its site in Mexico, close to the US border.

Basic infrastructure for the project was completed in 2010, but the global economic downturn stunted efforts to bring in tenants — renewables manufacturers, as well as aerospace and automotive factories.

But Silicon Border president Daniel Hill says: “Most people feel the economy in the US is picking up. Everybody that you talk to sees the green sprouts of growth coming back.”

He claims the benefits provided by locating a factory for solar panels and wind equipment in Mexicali, in the state of Baja California, outweigh the cheap labour found in Asia, where Hill…

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