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California ready to pull the plug on gas vehicles

CALIFORNIA - California will ban the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and trucks in 15 years, Gov Gavin Newsom announced, establishing a timeline in the nation's most populous state that could force US automakers to shift...

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Salt River Project and sPower announced the construction of its new plant in Arizona

PINAL COUNTY – Salt River Project and sPower, a renewable energy independent power producer, announced construction is underway on East Line Solar, a new solar power plant that will bring US$10 million in 25 years of tax revenue and up to 350...

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Mount Franklin Foods opening new candy factory at Mexican-U.S. border

CHIHUAHUA - Mount Franklin Foods is opening a new  220,000-sq-ft, state-of-the-art candy manufacturing facility in San Jeronimo — a port of entry in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, across the US border from Santa Teresa, New Mexico and the...

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BIO El Paso-Juarez launches program to help local companies

EL PASO – BIO El Paso-Juarez officially kicked-off its program focused on helping El Paso manufactures increase the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and develop medical device supply chains locally Over the course of four...

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US$24 million will be invested in Tijuana

TIJUANA – According to the Ministry of Infrastructure, Urban Development and Territorial Reorganization (Sidurt), the Government of Baja California will invest a total of US$24 million in works for Tijuana this year The head of the agency,...

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UTEP cancels purchase of Asarco's land

EL PASO – Plans to purchase the land where the Asarco smelter was located were discarded by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, due to disagreements with the final cost of acquisition, reported the University of Texas at El...

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Nuevo Leon maintains growth in industrial production

NUEVO LEON – After the physical volume indexes of production and new orders registered last April the lowest levels of the year due to COVID-19, they started an upward trend in the following months that has been maintained up to August...

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Exports in Juarez face obstacles

JUAREZ – Although Mexico is the United States' main trading partner, the treatment it receives at international bridges for the export of goods is not the friendliest, said Manuel Sotelo, president of the Association of Transporters He said...

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Sandvik Materials Technology expands to Tucson

ARIZONA – Sandvik Materials Technology, a world-leading developer and manufacturer of advanced stainless steels and special alloys, announced plans to expand its operations of precision medical wire and wire-based components to...

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Mexico should make ‘immediate’ water payments to U.S.

EL PASO - Time is running out for Mexico to pay a large water debt to the United States, and that is making Texas officials nervous "In a letter to minister of State Mike Pompeo, Texas Gov Greg Abbott emphasized Mexico owes a year’s worth of...

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