YKK Mexico lays foundation stone for its solar power plant in Guanajuato
By Elenne Castro
April 21, 2022
In order to improve its impact on the environment, YKK Grupo México laid the first stone of what will be the Solar Power and Water Treatment Plant.
Alejandro Hernández Fonseca, undersecretary of Investment Attraction of the Secretariat of Sustainable Economic Development of Guanajuato, recognized the commitment to the environment that the Japanese company has by having decided to build a solar power plant , which will help reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and thereby contribute to the sustainable development of Guanajuato.
The Japanese company will also have a Water Treatment Plant . The start-up is consolidated on an area of almost 12,000 square meters of land and will have an installed capacity of 1,200 kilowatts of power. These actions are the result of the great environmental and social commitment that YKK has .
"This plant is one more reflection that Guanajuato generates trust, and that hand in hand with the private initiative we maintain a dynamic economic policy and sustainable development that allows us to continue advancing in our policies for the protection and care of the environment and natural resources. natural," he pointed out.
The event was attended by Lorena Alfaro García, mayor of the Municipality of Irapuato; Héctor Muñoz, director of Economic Development of Irapuato ; Hideyuki Kubo, president of YKK Mexico ; Jim Reed, President of YKK for the Region of the Americas and Rodrigo Ambriz Pacheco, Director of Human Resources.