A. Shulman Inc. said Monday it is expanding the manufacturing capacity of its plastics factory in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The plant will focus its new 5 million pounds of capacity on specialty engineered nylones, polyesters and high-performance alloys. It plans to have finished its expansion by the ...

Cummins Filtration, a division of diesel engine manufacturer Cummins Inc., said Tuesday it is consolidating a "significant" portion of its North American filter assembly operations into one of its Mexican plants over the next several months, meaning the loss of about 400 jobs. Oil and fuel filter assembly operations at its plant in Lake Mills, Iowa, will be moved to ...

It was a rare bit of good news for Mexican President Felipe Caldern. On Aug. 11 he inaugurated a new, $300 million General Motors (GM) transmission plant in San Luis Potos that will provide 350 much needed jobs in a country whose economy is expected to shrink nearly 8% this year -- the worst decline since the 1930s. "The automotive sector ...