Two Asian companies interested to settle in Matamoros

Asian businessmen dedicated to the manufacturing of towers and wind power energy generators are interested in establishing in Matamoros, Tamaulipas; thus was announced by Arturo Gomez Ibarra, secretary of Economic Promotion and of Labor in city.

“Since July Korean businessmen visited the city and as well as other foreign investors had a tour by different industrial parks in the city and were interested on investing here,” said the official.

There are two Korean companies already that want to be in charge of the construction of the helixes of the wind fans being built in this region, said Arturo Gomez Ibarra.

The secretary of Economic Promotion said that in addition not only companies are seeking to create the aforementioned product, but also the towers, which if materialized there will be very important economic revenue for Matamoros.

He underlined that two companies are from Korea, and are which up to the moment have showed this interest to arrive to this border and generate part of the pieces that will be required for the generation of wind power energy.

He emphasized that at the moment there is nothing in concrete, there have been some approaches only, but the viable thing is that these companies experienced in the matter, they will remain with those projects.

He indicated that the first one – due to previously established agreements – the name cannot be disclosure, but he underlined that there is an important progress regarding its settling in Matamoros.

Proposals are expected from some other companies to arrive to this region seeking to invest and generate new job positions.

He said that development expectations are big and real, and it is expected that they will be generating the required jobs for graduated youngsters from our technical and higher education schools.