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Victoria, Tamaulipas,- Due to a drop in PO’s from their customers and bankruptcy by automobiles assemblers, Kemet decided to temporarily close their 4 plants in Mexico; two in Tamaulipas, (one of them in Victoria) and two in Monterrey.

Kemet’s workers pointed-out that the global crisis has affected automobiles assemblers, which are among Kemet’s main customers; this caused the temporary closing of Victoria plant for almost 20 days.

In an interview, they said that Delphi’s closing in Victoria, one of the main industries there and customer of Kemet’s, caused the temporary closing.

“Kemet has been affected by several issues this year, first the world crisis which has affected assemblers, and in addition the recession in the US market”.

Considering the economic debacle in the world, Kemet decided to stop activities as of last Friday, December 19 to go back to work next January 5.

Kemet Victoria is therefore joining Nieng Hsin, which closed one of their plants here and laid off at least 800 workers and Delphi, which has been forced to reduce shifts to face the economic crisis in the world.

Nuevo Laredo, Tam.- In spite of official forecasts which say that 30 thousand new jobs will be generated in Tamaulipas, from January to date 7 thousand jobs have been lost in maquiladora industry in Matamoros, Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo municipalities, according to Edmundo Garcia Roman, CTM Union General Secretary in the State.

He said that due to economic and profitability adjustments made by companies, 2 thousand jobs were lost in Nuevo Laredo, while in Reynosa 4 thousand workers lost their jobs, and one thousand more did in Matamoros.

“Even if economic deceleration in the USA is hitting us, there is a significant compensation in works at Tamaulipas, which allows generating enough jobs, even if most of them are in construction”, he said.

In the south zone, he said, jobs generated are mainly in the construction of a metal sheets plant where US$25 million are being invested in the first of three stages, in addition to two petro-chemical plants being built in Tampico-Madero zone and in Altamira.

“One of the companies will hire many workers, because it is a company that will produce raw materials for tires manufacturing, and another one will produce platinized paper to wrap candy bars”, he said.