As a result of the emergency that Costa Rica is going through due to the spread of the coronavirus, Bridgestone announced that it will temporarily close its industrial plant located in Belen, Heredia.
The company announced that its plant will remain inactive from March 26 to April 12 and that none of the 1,000 employees working on the premises will be dismissed.
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.
Because of restrictions on the movement of heavy cargo in Guatemala City and the high cost of land, more and more companies are choosing to move their operations to neighboring municipalities.
According to estimates by directors of the developer Calidad Inmobiliaria, the cost of land has risen significantly in the country's capital, since in the areas near Atanasio Tzul and Petapa Avenue, in Zone 12, the cost of the square fence is over $350, while in the municipality of Amatitlán it ranges between $100 and $150.
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.
After investing $7 million, Grupo Monterrey began operating a factory in the municipality of Amatitlan with the capacity to produce 4 million blocks per month.
The industrial plant, whose facilities have an area of 4 thousand square meters, is located at kilometer 32 on the Pacific route, in the Rancho Grande industrial park. The factory has a mega blocks machine with European technology and a temperature-controlled warehouse for drying the block.
In the department of El Paraíso, a high-tech plant was inaugurated that will be dedicated to the production and processing of coffee products and specialty coffees.
The plant is located in Teupasenti and is called BioFortune. A $1 million investment was required and it has controlled fermentation and dehydration equipment.
In Guatemala, the government announced that in the next two years it plans to build a plastic waste recycling plant that would produce electricity, and the investment would be financed by donations.
The Ministry of Economy (Mineco) is focused on identifying within the metropolitan area which is the most suitable area for the installation of the plant and the plan is that it will start operating within two years.
After Monterrey business group completed the construction of its new industrial plant with capacity to produce 120 thousand tons of cement per year, the company is preparing to start selling in the local market.
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).
ICU Medical Inc. announced that it will build an industrial plant in Heredia, Costa Rica, dedicated to the manufacture of medical devices for infusion therapy and critical care applications.
The investment made in the plant located in La Aurora de Heredia will include a new infusion pump manufacturing line and a state-of-the-art sterilization plant, reported CINDE.
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.
Teradyne, Inc. announced that it will build an industrial plant in the Coyol Free Zone, Costa Rica, which will have an area of 11 thousand square meters, from where it will provide its customers with electronic services and IT support.
The building will begin construction in January in the industrial park of the province of Alajuela, and is expected to be completed in July 2021, reported the Costa Rican Coalition of Development Initiatives (Cinde).
A 5,000 square meter industrial plant with the capacity to process 95 pigs per hour was inaugurated in the municipality of San Juan Opico, department of La Libertad.
The project, which required more than $5 million in investment, was financed by the U.S.
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.
The company announced that it will close its bar soap production plant of the brands Xtra, Unox, Rinso and Surf that was located in Comayagua, Honduras, and will move operations to the neighboring country.
Unilever Central America announced in a statement that bar soaps will now be manufactured and marketed in Central America by the Guatemalan company Industria La Popular.
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