Border Talks: The Contribution of Business to a Civil Society
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Congressman Beto O’rourke once said “when we fail to define the border, we allow others to define the border for us.”
The maquiladora industry has been our catalyst and changed the face of Matamoros and the region driving out the economic growth for the last 50 years.
In 1966 the Mexican Federal Government created the maquiladora program with 4 big objectives:
•Generate new jobs•Transfer technology•Economic impact•Talent development
AFTER 50 YEARS THIS IS THE CURRENT PICTURE:
Employment
• 117 companies.
• Directly employ over 75,000 people in
Matamoros.
• Indirectly employ 22,000 people in
Matamoros.
• 97,000 Jobs out of 114,000 formal jobs in
Matamoros.
• This is, 85% of the jobs in Matamoros are
generated by the Maquiladora Industry.
Transfer of TechnologyMatamoros is an advanced manufacturing center with high class manufacturing processes.
The main strength of the city is the auto-part industry closely followed by the electronics and heavy metal industries.
Economic impact• In 2015 the industry paid 550+ millions of
dollars in salaries.
• More than 350 millions of dollars were spent by the industry on goods and services.
• 60+ millions of dollars paid on Social Security for the workers of the industry.
• 500+ millions of dollars spent on domestic raw materials.
• Total exports in 2015 was 8 billion of dollars into Brownsville, Tx.
Fuente: INEGI
Talent Development
After 50 years of operation, the maquiladora industry has built a well defined working philosophy and has developed human-capital intensive, high-value-added intellectual capital.
Matamoros has highly qualified engineers and technicians top of the line in a global market.
Social Responsibility
Adopt a school“The future of children depends on the present where they live”
Vision: Improve the life of students through a healthy
school environment.
Mission: Repair and maintain in good condition school
facilities and support teachers with to improve the teaching-learning process.
ANTES DESPUÉS
Adopt a school
ANTES
DESPUÉS
Adopt a school
Adopt a school
ANTES
DESPUÉS
Adopt a schoolANTES
DESPUÉS
Charity Funds
Donations
Donations
Children day
More the 2,000 toys for Children
Matamoros BilingualOBJECTIVE
Increase significantly the number of bilingual people in Matamoros.
COMPANIES PARTICIPATING
Global English
Health Activities
1.8 millions of health actions1.8 millions of health actions
Generation 5 suns
Order and cleanness: The Secret to ShineProgram for children using the methodology of the 5's.
Generation 5 suns
Generation 5 suns
Generation 5 suns
What is next?• We all know that a community will be successful if we develop in the short
time capabilities of basic scientific research.
• In the mid time we need a better system for commercializing research, and submitting new patents.
• In the long run if we don’t get together as metro regions, we will not be able to compete in this new world.
• Metro regions are the engines of our economy, the sites of new technological breakthroughs
Having said that
Today we have a huge challenge, we are at the edge of the industrial revolution 4.0 and we need to be smarter and more creative to drive our communities from where we are to a community based on value-creation
In this regard the Matamoros-Brownsville area need a new catalyst
And we found that the milestone for this is fostering an economy driven by innovation, that is really the key to improve the standard of living.
• Where the talent enhancement, the develop of regional R&D capabilities need to be deployed to build our own technological revolution.
• An ambitious goal that will make the Matamoros-Brownsville area a value adding region, encouraging young talents into being more research oriented, and support their creativity.
GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY LAST MARCH 30 OF THE MATAMOROS INNOVATION CENTER
Groundbreaking Ceremony Innovation Center
Groundbreaking ceremony Innovation and Research Center
Index Matamoros
We partnered with Krinova Innovation Center in Kristiansand, Sweden
Right now we have an intern there copying the innovation model.
INNOVATION CENTER
GraduateStudies
Research TechnologicalServices
Robotics/advancedManufacturing
Mechanical Engineering an materials
Training
Evaluation of Materials
Materials Mechatronics/ Automation
Engineering/Advanced
Manufacturing
Metrology/Calibration
Modeling/Simulation
Lab of Engineering, Product Design,
Equipment
Lab. of Material
evaluation
Lab. of automation and Control
Ladies and gentleman, the border is not easy, the border is magic, the border is not united states or Mexico the border is unique and only ourselves that grew and live here understand it and have the responsibility to strive for the betterment of our communities.
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, we are not innovating enough”
Elon Musk
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
ROLANDO GONZÁLEZ BARRÓNPRESIDENT OF INDEX MATAMOROS