One of the manufacturing industries with the greatest growth projection in Mexico is aerospace, which, although it was greatly affected during the pandemic, maintains a long-range horizon and this is already beginning to be shown by the numbers.

In 2021, the exports of this industry exceeded eight billion dollars, 8% more than in 2020, according to what was made public earlier this year by the Mexican Federation of the Aerospace Industry (FEMIA), an organization that in fact foresees that it will be in 2024 when this industry recovers from the blow suffered by COVID-19.

Between 2009 and 2019 this sector had an annual growth of around 14%, derived from a strategic vision of some states in the Republic, as is clear in the case of Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora, Nuevo León and Querétaro.

Likewise, the need to have a strong extension of the value chain of the United States and Canada with the manufacture and maquila of aircraft components and the growth and consolidation of manufacturing in Mexico, played an important role in attracting aerospace and technology projects. advanced manufacturing.

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Mexico is practically the only country in Latin America whose economy depends more on secondary industry than on primary. In other words, it has undergone a maturing process in terms of added value and advanced manufacturing that should be strengthened.

And it is in this sense that the aerospace industry has enormous growth potential in attracting investment, as well as in design, engineering and advanced manufacturing.

René Espinoza, president of the FEMIA Advisory Council, has highlighted in various forums the importance of component manufacturers in Mexico getting on the Industry 4.0 technological train, which considers digitized ecosystems both in internal processes and in their links in extended supply chains.

Beyond communications, software, data and advanced analytics; technology will also arrive in manufacturing processes. Aviation is an industry that is in a frank fight against environmental care, which is why it needs new designs, engines and technologies to save fuel and materials that make them lighter and that help the two previous factors.

But new materials imply new challenges in production. In Mexico, manufacturers of cutting tools for machining processes work with innovations in their products, which include complex geometries with special tools for roughing composites, new alloys and difficult-to-machine materials such as titanium.

In this field, high-level machining is what prevails in manufacturing processes.

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What is clear is that the manufacture of aerospace components, just as the assembly of harnesses was initially, will continue to grow in volume with advanced manufacturing projects for fuselages, engines, engine components or landing gear parts, which at being brought to the country will also foster the creation and development of a higher level work mind.

In terms of software development for systems, such as navigation or operations within ships, they are also being developed in Mexico. Perhaps Yucatan will surprise us in a few years in that field.

The aerospace industry will continue to grow. The IP is doing the same and the Academy too. It only remains to be hoped that the development of industrial policies designed by the Mexican government will contribute to the creation of a triple helix model that supports the development of this sector.

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