Jabil announces investment in Nuevo Leon

The American company leader in electronic components, Jabil, announced an investment that will generate 3,000 and 5,000 jobs in Nuevo Leon in the next two years.

Jabil will settle its new plant in the Milenium Industrial Park in Apodaca and will start operations in September, offering first about 200 jobs during the first trimester. This represents an investment of about 30 million dollars for the company, according to Simon Wilcox, general director of Jabil in Monterrey.

Before the arrival of Jabil, the governor of the State, Jaime Rodriguez Calderon, reasserted the commitment of the Government to generate conditions to attract companies and offer job opportunities to citizens.

“It is very important to continue attracting companies that have to do with technology, we are migrating very well and at great speed in our project Nuevo Leon 4.0, this will allow most of our medium and high-level students have the possibility of a job,” he added.

Meanwhile, Roberto Russildi Montellanos, secretary of Economy and Labor of Nuevo Leon, explained that the Citizen Governance supports the company with investment advisory and linkage with educational institutions.

“We offer them human capital that will continue to be trained, linkage with universities, technical schools and the entire group working in the benefits and wages subject, they will be available for them to make the best decisions,” said the secretary.

The American firm has 100 operative centers in 28 countries and provides jobs for more than 200 thousand people around the world.  Only in Mexico, contributes with 27,000 of them approximately in the 16 plants located in Guadalajara, Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua and now in Apodaca.

“Jabil brings confidence to customers that products and components are delivered timely, with the maximum quality attention, efficiency and workers’ safety as a priority in everything we do,” said Wilcox.