In order to house companies that are about to start operations or for companies that need to expand their operations in Coyol Free Zone, the Costa Rican industrial complex is building new infrastructure for an area equivalent to 67,347 square meters.
According to information disseminated by the industrial park located in Alajuela, Costa Rica, 17,725 square meters are currently being built, corresponding to new expansion processes of companies already installed and requiring more physical space to operate.
From January to June of this year, the constructed area of warehouses and other industrial properties in Costa Rica increased by 58,273 square meters compared to the same period in 2019, which is equivalent to an annual increase of 3%.
Colliers, a firm specialized in real estate, informed that as well as the built area, the availability of spaces in the Costa Rican market also increased.
IDB Invest granted an $8 million loan to American Industrial Park, owner of an industrial park in El Salvador, to invest in expansion works and the installation of a photovoltaic park for self-powered electricity generation.
The financing, with an 11-year term, will enable American Industrial Park (AIP) to maintain its competitiveness over the medium term by expanding its 17,000 square meter industrial roof.
Proquinal Costa Rica announced that it will reinvest $20 million in its coated fabric manufacturing plant, which is located in Spradling Free Zone Park in Coyol de Alajuela.
This reinvestment will allow the implementation of a new process within the plant that will increase its export capacity. The company manufactures coated fabrics for high performance markets such as hospitals, yachts, school buses, stadiums, airports and hotels, reported the Costa Rican Development Initiative Coalition (Cinde).
Portafolio Inmobiliario announced that it will begin the development of the Green Valley Free Trade Zone project, which in its first stage contemplates the construction of a Free Trade Zone located in the municipality of Grecia, province of Alajuela.
The total land on which the project will be located amounts to more than one million square meters, however, its construction will be carried out in stages.
During 2019, 56 environmental impact studies for the construction of industrial plants were presented in Central American countries, and Costa Rica represented 58% of the estimated investment.
The interactive platform "Construction in Central America", of the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData, includes an updated list of public and private construction projects that present environmental impact studies (EIS) to the respective institutions in each country.
An industrial plant for the processing of vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy products, roots and tubers will be built in the canton of Coto Brus, province of Puntarenas.
The Costa Rican government awarded the contract for the construction of this industrial complex to the company Vidalco Empresa Constructora. It is estimated that the overall investment will be approximately $3 million.
Grupo Elcatex inaugurated the first phase of the San Juan Innovation Park in Choloma, which has 107 thousand square meters of construction and required an initial investment of $240 million.
In its first stage of development the industrial complex has a cotton spinning and blending plant, a textile plant and an electricity generating plant with a capacity of 57 MW.
With a $41 million investment, a Nike sportswear manufacturing plant will be built in San Pedro Sula.
Businessmen from Grupo Kattán and Corporación Tegra Global, informed that the new industrial site will have an area of 63 thousand square meters and will be located in the free zone of Inmobiliaria Hondurena del Valle S.A. (Inhdelva).
Code Development Group announced that it plans to build a new free zone in Grecia de Alajuela, Costa Rica, which would house companies in the high technology sector.
Directors of Code Development Group, who are also part of the group of partners of the Free Zone of Coyol, reported that the new business park would be named "Code" and that the project already has the endorsement of the municipality of Greece.
In Costa Rica, the Coca-Cola company announced that it had completed the construction of its new raw material production plant in Liberia, and it has now begun operating in its first phase.
Businessmen in the sector report that at the end of September 2019, industrial activity shows a 1.3% recovery, leaving behind the falls registered in 2018 and part of 2019.
According to the Industrial Activity Index, prepared by Central American Business Intelligence -CABI- and presented by the Chamber of Industry, at the end of September 2019, industrial activity shows a positive recovery of 1.3%, leaving behind the falls registered in 2018 and part of 2019.
In Costa Rica, businessmen from the industrial sector expect that next year the levels of economic activity will improve and the process of reactivation of production will be consolidated.
The Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica (ICRC) believes that in 2019 the country engaged in a spiral of uncertainty, as businessmen and consumers were affected by the application of value added tax (VAT) and changes in the income tax.
In a context of slowdown in industrial activity and loss of jobs, the industrialists' union of El Salvador calls for a policy of attracting investment through incentives and reviewing and taking advantage of existing trade agreements.
El Salvador's industrial sector registered a 0.9% growth in the first half of 2019, two percentage points less than last year during the same period, a fact that shows that economic growth in El Salvador remains slow and low, remaining at 2%, reported the Salvadoran Association of Industrialists (ASI).
In an area of 39 thousand square meters located in the village of Pacora, the plans are to build an industrial building that will be used by a company manufacturing metal structures.
Industria Correagua, S.A. presented to the Ministry of Environment the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) called "Construction of Gallery No. 2".
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