The medical device manufacturer Precision Concepts Medical Technologies will invest $5 million in the construction and operation of a new plant in Costa Rica.
According to the Costa Rican Coalition of Development Initiatives (Cinde), the health sector company's investment will focus on the construction of a building and the implementation of state-of-the-art technology.
The beverage concentrate production plant that Coca Cola has started building in Liberia, Costa Rica, will measure 34,000 square meters and is scheduled to start operating in January 2020.
The plant will be located within the Zona Franca Solarium, in a plot of land measuring 103,000 m2. The factory will produce 90 compounds that are used for beverages that are exported to Central America, the Caribbean, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, the Costa Rican Coalition of Development Initiatives said in a statement.
In Costa Rica, the manufacturer of medical devices for continence and ostomy, Coloplast, has announced that it will be building a manufacturing plant in La Lima free zone, in Cartago.
The company of Danish origin reported that "...In January 2019, Coloplast will start operating in a temporary location, located next to what will be its new manufacturing plant.
The Irish manufacturer of medical devices by contract, Advant Medical, announced its intention to expand its operations with the installation of a plant in Costa Rica.
From a statement issued by the CINDE:
Heredia, Costa Rica, April 4, 2018.Advant Medical, a world leader in services and manufacturing of contract medical devices, recently announced its intention to expand its operations with the installation of a plant in Costa Rica.
Citing lack of raw material to continue operating, in Costa Rica the Venezuelan company Alunasa has submitted an application to temporarily suspend the labor contracts of 300 employees.
The Ministry of Labor reported that the company, of Venezuelan origin, submitted the request to suspend contracts for a period of 3 months, while focusing on obtaining raw material in other markets, with the aim of resuming activities in the short term.
The Coca Cola company has announced that it will be building a production plant for raw materials in Liberia, which will replace the current one that operates in La Uruca, which will close in the short term.
The production plant will be built on an area of 103 thousand square meters in Liberia, Guanacaste, where earthmoving works have already started, as representatives of Coca Cola explained at a press conference.
Florida Ice and Farm's new plant in Costa Rica has capacity to produce up to 74 thousand cans of beer per hour.
The new facilities required an investment of $15 million in machinery and infrastructure, and will allow the company to increase its production capacity of beer and other alcoholic beverages by 40%.
The Mexican company Zetrak has inaugurated a plant in Amatitlán, department of Guatemala, for the manufacture of electrical distribution and power transformers.
Executives from Zetrak Guatemala stated that the "...objective of the new production plant, which will have all of the technical-commercial support of Zetrak Mexico, is to provide a more personalized service and a prompt response for all customers in Central America."
The company Global Packaging Group has started construction in San Carlos, Costa Rica, of a plant with capacity to produce 60,000 tons in a first stage and 120,000 thousand in a second stage.
The Codela SC plant will be the fourth corrugated cardboard production plant belonging to the Global Packaging Group (GPG) in Costa Rica.Once in operation, total production capacity of the plants in the country will exceed 500,000 tons.
Edwards Lifesciences has announced that as part of the expansion plan for its operations in Costa Rica, it will start construction of a new heart valve manufacturing plant in Cartago.
The company dedicated to the manufacture of heart valves started construction of the new plant next to the current one, located in the Zona Franca La Lima, in Cartago. Heart valve devices will be manufactured in the new facilities, "...
In a timeframe of three years GlaxoSmithKline will be moving its manufacturing operation in Costa Rica to other plants in Latin America.
The manufacturer of medicines and medical supplies announced that the decision"... was made after reviewing its global manufacturing network and identifying available production capacity in other plants in Latin America.
The Colombian company producing fabrics and vinyl flooring, Proquinal, has announced that with the expansion of its manufacturing plant in Coyol, Alajuela, it will be doubling its production capacity.
The manufacturer of vinyl fabrics has increased the size of its production plant in Coyol, Alajuela by 9 thousand square meters.
Florida Bebidas has submitted an environmental impact study to expand the capacity of its beer production plant in the province of Heredia, Costa Rica.
According to data from the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData com, Productora La Florida S.A. presented an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the project"Expansion of Beer Manufacturing Plant", located in the district of La Ribera, Canton of Belen, province of Heredia.
Dos Pinos, the largest producer and distributor of milk in Costa Rica has acquired a nondairy beverage production plant, which until now has been in the hands of Bebidas Mixtas de Centroamérica.
With the purchase of this plant the Costa Rican Cooperativa de Leche Dos Pinos is seeking to venture into the regional market of drinks such as fruit juices, soft drinks, teas and bottled water.
The manufacturer of cookers and refrigerators is transferring to Columbia the refrigerator production line it has thus far operated in Costa Rica, where it will maintain a corporate center for the region.
Mabe explained that the reason is due to a change in the technical rules in some Central American and Caribbean countries where they distribute their products.
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