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Saturday, 05 September 2009 09:02 |
 A group of Juarez business leaders donated a 200-hectare land to build a manufacturing plant that would supply a larger engine or chassis maker in El Paso, Texas, potentially making both border cities close partners in a vast cross-border industrial operation.
The city of El Paso approved the purchase of 1,000 acres of undeveloped land close to the New Mexico border line on Tuesday that it plans to use as a marketing tool to lure an automotive manufacturer or an alternative energy company.
The potential for an automotive partnership between Juarez and El Paso makes sense since Juarez already manufactures up to 87 percent of the parts making up a new vehicle, according a Soledad Maynez, president of the local manufacturing plants asociation, AMAC.
The land donated to the city by the Juarez entrepeneurs, whom Maynez declined to identify, has access to railroad tracks and the main local highway, similarly to the land just approved for purchase in El Paso.
But unlike the El Paso land, the land in Juarez is ready for water service.
World-class companies like Delphi, Visteon, Johnson Controls, General Motors, Packard Electric and Lear have been working in Juarez for years and sometimes decades, with Delphi designing a wide range of automotive systems at its Mexico Technical Center in Juarez.
Recently the autonomous university of Juarez, UACJ, began an automotive systems program.
El Paso officials are working with Regional Economic Development Corp. to attract a large manufacturer, but no company is close to making a commitment, according to El Paso Times.
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Chihuahua is developing an aerospace cluster. Our universities are training aerospace engineers and technicians right now.
We are developing micro-electromechanical systems at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez. Many national and international companies with operations in the State are potential beneficiaries of our projects. 
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