The Chinese manufacturer of Access Equipment, Lingong Machinery Group (LGMG), laid the first stone of its new plant located in the municipality of Marín, Nuevo León, where it will produce articulated electric elevators, which it will export for sale to the United States.

For the construction of the plant, the Chinese firm will invest 140 million dollars and will generate 1,400 jobs, he reported.

The Mexican ambassador to China, Jesús Seade, connected remotely, commenting that the laying of the first stone confirms the confidence that Chinese companies have in the country. In this case, LGMG, accompanied by two of its main suppliers, will work in a coordinated manner. .

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“It is the 50th anniversary of the LGMG company: I congratulate its president Yu Mengshen, because his company will play an essential role, they are confirming that the strategic platform takes advantage of the logistics location of the T-MEC and will be a gateway with which we will continue to collaborate. Seade emphasized.

For his part, the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García Sepúlveda, said: “In this month of September, all the indicators for the first half of 2022 are coming out, and in all of them, Nuevo León happily has first place and every year we continue to break records. that we put on ourselves the year before.”

"The previous semester we were again the state that registered the most formal jobs and entering the particular case, we are the state with the highest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and each time the GAP between the first and second place, which is always Mexico City. It's getting bigger and bigger," he added.

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In turn, the state Secretary of Economy, Iván Rivas Rodríguez, indicated that the proximity of Nuevo León to the United States is an opportunity that nearshoring brings as a competitive advantage that benefits transnationals.

It should be noted that LGMG occupies the fifth position worldwide in the construction of mobile elevating work platforms and the tenth position in manufacturing equipment.

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