We believe in Mexicali and it’s people, the land, the workplace culture and the dynamics of world class businesses in the city that empower our industry.
Operating with state of the art technology and a global network, NOV Mexicali has refined its procedures making them swift and error free when designing and constructing structures of striking proportions that exceed the highest standards within the industry.
Its production plant in Mexicali plays an important role in the corporate world of the distinguished NOV family.

 
Mexicali Plant Facts

 
Mexicali’s production plant allows NOV to increase its ability to offer even better services to our customers.


 
NOV Mexicali Management

This unsung wine region in Baja California has it all, from cutting-edge wines to glamorous hotels.

Six hundred miles south of Napa Valley, just past Tijuana, lies a series of lush, green vineyards that are turning out some of the world’s most exciting New World wines. The main highway is quiet and dusty, and the landscapes are dotted by rock-strewn hillsides and grazing cows.
Turn onto any side road and you’ll start to unearth the many gems of Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico’s first, burgeoning wine region. There are restaurants with international acclaim, stylish boutique hotels, and sprawling wineries–most with panoramic views—where you’re as likely to mingle with locals as with the winemakers themselves.

 
For wine lovers in the know, Mexico is buzzing. Two decades ago, you could count Valle de Guadalupe’s wineries on both hands. By 2012, there were about 50 of them. Now,Baja’s Ruta del Vino boasts more than 100 wineries.

Despite the exponential growth, Valle de Guadalupe still has a low-key feel that’s reminiscent of a pre-commercial, pre-tourism Napa.
“All of the wineries here are family-based,” says Fernando Perez Castro, owner of Valle’sLa Lomita and Finca La Carrodilla wineries. “We all live here. When you visit a winery, there’s a great chance you’ll see the owner or winemaker or the son of the owner hanging around.”

 
Getting there is easy. You can drive two hours south from San Diego or fly to Tijuana. Once you’re in Baja, you can use UberValle to get around; it’s an Uber service that dispatches private drivers to chauffeur you all day long, from Tijuana’s airport to the wineries and to dinner or beyond. It’s a common approach for San Diego- and L.A.-based day trippers and weekend visitors, though well-heeled nationals from Tijuana are also pouring in.
Here’s a guide to the best in food, wine, and hotels. If you want to hit them all, plan to stay for four or five days.

Where to Sample

 
Valle de Guadalupe’s regional climate is similar to those of Bordeaux and Rioja, albeit more arid. So it’s no surprise that well-ripened, jammy blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are among the most popular pours. That said, mono-varietals are the area’s current obsession.
Start with the Nebbiolos from Las Nubes and L.A. Cetto, one of the region’s oldest, most respected wineries. Then head to Finca Carrodilla, the only winery in the region that uses certified organic grapes. Its Cabs and Shirazes are high in demand and best enjoyed in the leafy rooftop garden.
Make your last stop Decantos Vinicola, noted for its modern, minimalist architecture and groundbreaking techniques; it uses gravity, rather than mechanical decanting, to transfer wine from tank to barrel, which helps maintain the integrity of the wines’ aroma, flavor, and color.

 
These wines aren’t just good by local standards—top sommeliers in the U.S. are also buying in.
“I love pouring a glass of [Mexican] wine and not telling someone where it’s from,” says Greg Majors, who worked as Tom Colicchio’s wine director at Craft in New York before joining San Diego-based Blue Bridge Hospitality. “Then you tell them it’s from Mexico, and their eyes pop.”

Where to Eat

 
Restaurants are seasonal and fiercely farm-to-table, with some of Mexico’s most noteworthy chefs in the kitchens.
In the case of Deckman’s en el Mogor, Georgia-born chef Drew Deckman—who studied with Paul Bocuse and was executive chef of the Michelin-starred Restaurant Vitus, in Berlin—is front and center at the glorified campsite restaurant, where he grills grass-fed meats and vegetables picked from the property’s on-site garden.

 
At Corazón de Tierra, the restaurant at the hacienda-style bed and breakfast La Villa Del Valle, chef Diego Hernandez’s tasting menus are made up of such modern Mexican dishes as pig’s trotters dusted with onion ashes. It’s the only Valle restaurant to be featured as one of Latin America’s Best 50 Restaurants since that list debuted in 2013.
 

Where to Sleep

 
While the roads in Valle may be dusty, the accommodations are anything but. Look to the many design-forward boutique properties for proof.
Bruma, the brainchild of eight childhood friends, is a year-old, 75-acre property that includes a five-bedroom bed and breakfast (dubbed Casa Ocho), a pool, spa, and event space, with a winery and restaurant opening soon. Decked out with beautiful tile work and wood detailing, it feels like a log cabin-turned-art gallery, with design led by famed local architect Alejandro d’Acosta.

 
Modernity is the guiding principle at Encuentro Guadalupe, which opened in 2012 and offers 20 sustainably built lofts and villas on a rocky hillside. The hotel bar is a hip hangout for well-to-do Tijuanese and hipster SoCal travelers.
Chefs are getting in on the hotel game. Tijuana-bred chef Javier Plascencia, who runs the Valle restaurant Finca Altozano and numerous hotspots throughout Tijuana and San Diego, opened Finca La Divina last year. The six-room bed and breakfast feels more like a glamorous Airbnb, complete with pool and grill; four more bedrooms are to come by the end of 2017.

 
Source: Bloomberg

Mexicali’s Metro Police K9 Police Dog program has received international awards for obedience, guard duties, sniffing drugs and guns, among others.

Mexicali Police K9 is an endeavor with specific goals and challenges; in its continued success, the program has turned dog handlers from the police department into qualified trainers.

The long-term goal of the K9 program is to strengthen Mexicali police actions through sound tactical training and to bring every officer and administrator involved in K9 to work closer together in an effort to heighten work standards and ethics, thus making each of our jobs safer.
Today Mexicali has 8 trained dogs available for duty, including service for industrial companies interested in detecting any abnormal behavior during a day’s work, if needed.
In schools for instance, these dogs have detected drugs which has helped to keep students away from drugs.

PIMSA congratulates Officer José Luis Cabrera, who heads a group of canine officers in Mexicali’s K9 Police Dog Team ready for patrol duties.
Interested companies can contact José Luis Cabrera at (686) 558-1200 ext. 6000 and 6051.

Jesus Velez is originally from Mexicali and a graduate of Technological Institute of Mexicali.
With a long productive background in industry, Jesus has been named General Manager of Martech Medical Products.

Martech manufactures needles, dilators, molded components, monitoring lines, valved products, simple and complex machined parts, medical grade extrusions and finished catheters.
With 25 years operating in Mexicali, Martech has assigned Jesus Velez to lead their operation in Mexicali teaming up with Vice President Tracy Schultz.

Cesar Ponce, who presides PIMSA’s tenant association, Francisco Fiorentini, Executive V.P. and Xavier Rivas Business Development V.P. of PIMSA, gave Jesus a warm welcome to “La Familia PIMSA.”
“I will concentrate on making Martech a better place for workers and our parent company” – Jesus commented.

Jesus is also a former American football player and an off-road racer who has ran the Baja 500 and 1000.
 
PDF: Welcome Jesus Velez to Martech Medical at PIMSA

PIMSA Mexicali
2016
David F. Markel and S. Tim Schweikert, CEO and President of Martech Medical Products respectively (www.martechmedical.com), visited their Mexicali manufacturing operation at PIMSA to celebrate their 25th anniversary, bringing about the consolidation of new projects.

 
The management team integrated by Quality Manager Alejandro Sánchez, Logistics Manager Rubén Godoy, Materials Manager Angela Sandoval, Engineering Manager Michael Rich, Assistant VP of Operations Tanya Mosqueda, and their team leader VP of Operations Tracy Schultz, along with PROMEXICO, Industrial Commission of Mexicali and State Government’s SEDECO authorities, recognized associate Antonia Hernández for her 25 years working in Martech. Antonia recalled the days when there were three workers and a supervisor and expressed the honor of being part of the original MARTECH team and witnessing its continuous expansion.

Melbry García, Human Resources Manager, said this celebration is also to recognize people who, like Antonia, have been in the company for decades because thanks to them and the new employees, the company is stable and capable of providing continuous stability for many families.

With 15 years in Martech, Rubén Godoy, Logistics Manager, mentioned he started when they were just one hundred and fifty employees. The workforce now accounts for almost one thousand three hundred people and they hope to continue growing from 15 to 20 percent each year.

In the same manner, Francisco Fiorentini, PIMSA’s Executive Vice-president, said he was proud because these 25 years represent not only job opportunities for Mexicali, but opportunities to build stories of personal growth. “This celebration means Mexicali has found the conditions to develop manufacturers such as MARTECH into a competitive edge – no doubt their celebration is a testimony of it.” – Francisco Fiorentini.
In the words of Sergio Vindiola, PRODENSA’s Project Manager (PRODENSA is the administrative services provider for Marthec) “Martech has been a stable business for its quality and loyalty of employees, and for its local and global contributions through its products.”

We appreciate Martech’s business through 25 years of being part of the PIMSA family of companies.

CETYS University signs a memorandum of understanding with Al Akhawayn University.
Ifrane, Morocco
July 2016
CETYS University, located in Baja California, (www.cetys.mx/en/), continues to build a network of international universities, in this case with Al Akhawayn University (www.aui.ma/en/) , located in Ifrane, Morocco. This initiative will, no doubt, benefit students of both universities as it opens opportunities for social, cultural and business activities.

Academic curricula such as transcultural administration, legal, business, women empowerment, off shoring, business development, aerospace, health, automotive, among others, will be provided as educational plans for students of CETYS and AUI.
PIMSA congratulates CETYS President, Dr. Fernando LEON, and President of Al Akhawayn University, Dr. Driss OUAOUICHA. These visionary actions are an important complement for our Baja California and Morocco manufacturing community.

A special mention to Mexico’s Ambassador in Morocco, The Honorable Dr. Andres ORDOÑEZ, for his presence as a quality witness and for his interest in building opportunities between Morocco and Baja California, Mexico.

PIMSA continues to build opportunities for market share between Baja California and Morocco. “We are far and do not compete but could complement markets for manufacturing,” said Jaafar MRHARDY, General Director of Tanger Med Zones.

Also we recognize the efforts of Dr. Wafa El Garah, Vice President of Academic Programs, AUI and Dr. Scott Venezia, CETYS Dean of International Affairs.

About CETYS University
The Center for Higher and Technical Education (CETYS University) is an educational institution of excellence located in the State of Baja California, México. CETYS was founded in 1961 under the sponsorship of a group of visionary entrepreneurs who devised a quality education on this flourishing border state.
With campuses in Mexicali, Tijuana, and Ensenada, CETYS University currently offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the areas of Management and Business, Engineering, and Humanities; it also offers general, bilingual, and international High School.

About Al Akhawayn University
Founded in 1995, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane is an independent, public, not-forprofit, coeducational, Moroccan university committed to educating future citizen-leaders of Morocco and the world through a globally oriented, English-language, liberalarts curriculum based on the American system. The University enhances Morocco and engages the world through leading-edge educational and research programs, including continuing and executive education, upholds the highest academic and ethical standards, and promotes equity and social responsibility.

The new plant increases the number of the Group’s production facilities in North America to 21 and reaffirms Michelin’s commitment to manufacturing its tires as close as possible to the markets in which they are sold.
Mexico and Clermont-Ferrand, France, July 4, 2016 — Michelin today announced plans to build a production facility in the center of Mexico to manufacture high-end tires for passenger cars and light trucks. The first tires are expected to come off the production line in fourth-quarter 2018. The new plant in León (Guanajuato state) is the Group’s 21st in North America and 69th worldwide. Its location reflects Michelin’s commitment to producing its tires as close as possible to the markets in which they are sold.
The construction of the 142,000-square-meter plant, which represents an investment of €450 million ($510 million), is expected to begin in second-half 2016. Once completed, the León plant will be ramped up gradually. During the initial production phase, it is expected to manufacture four to five million tires a year for Michelin customers with plants in the region as well as for the large north-american domestic market, which
has been enjoying strong growth in recent years.
“Michelin is building this plant to respond both to sharp growth in Mexico’s automobile market and to the confidence that the world’s largest car manufacturers have put in us,” said Jean-Dominique Senard, Chief Executive Officer of the Michelin Group, which is headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France. “The largest investment approved by the Group in 2016, the new plant reflects our ability to take advantage of growth opportunities in the dynamic North American market and to make our manufacturing operations more agile by deploying tire ranges that integrate innovative technology.”
Most of these high-performance tires will be produced for the original equipment segment. The plant’s location was chosen because it is just a three-hour drive from the production facilities of 18 large car manufacturers with operations in Mexico. These short distances mean that the tires will be delivered to Michelin’s customers faster and more cost effectively, thereby reducing the Group’s carbon footprint and helping it to meet its environmental objectives.
“We’re pleased to strengthen our industrial presence in Mexico, thereby being able to satisfy the needs of North American car manufacturers and motorists looking for high-quality tires that are perfectly adapted to their usage conditions,” said Mike Boggs, director of Michelin Mexico. Michelin has been present in North America since 1950 and currently employs 23,000 people in the US, Canada and Mexico.
About Michelin
Michelin, the leading tire company, is dedicated to enhancing its clients’ mobility, sustainably; designing and distributing the most suitable tires, services and solutions for its clients’ needs; providing digital services, maps and guides to help enrich trips and travels and make them unique experiences; and developing high-technology materials that serve the mobility industry. Headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Michelin is present in 171 countries, has 111,700 employees and operates 68 production facilities in 17 countries, which together produced 184 million tires in 2015. (www.michelin.com)
Source: Michelin Group

We take this opportunity to inform you of three young top guns of the aerospace business in Mexicali:

Roberto was born in Mexicali, Baja California. He is a graduate of Cetys University, School of Engineering, with a Global MBA by the National University in La Jolla, California.
After working in Kenworth Mexicana, Maseca Group and Honeywell, Roberto is currently the Vice President and General Manager of Innocentro LLC, with presence in Germany, Singapore, United States and Mexico.

Sergio is originally of Tampico, Tamaulipas. A graduate of Cetys University, School of Engineering. He provides support in opening new processes with world-class companies in Mexicali such as American Tissue of Mexico, Gulfstream and Driessen Aircraft Interior Systems.
Sergio is co-founder of Innocentro LLC and FEMIA. He is currently in charge of the Strategic Projects department, creating innovative and cutting-edge projects for new customers and new opportunities for captive customers of diverse industries.

Edgar was born in Ensenada, Baja California. He is a graduate of Baja California State University (UABC), School of Architecture campus Mexicali. He has been involved in the development of Driessen Aircraft Interior Systems in Mexico as engineering leader, starting the area of Technical Publications to support corporate operations in both the US and Europe.
Co-founder of Innocentro LLC and FEMIA, Edgar is currently in charge of the Purchasing Department and Operations Support.

Innocentro LLC was created, as a multidisciplinary manufacturing engineering, with extensive experience in aircraft interior equipment, railroad and massive consumption products.

Located in PIMSA, Innocentro LLC CORE Engineering Staff has extensively worked creating solutions under the highest standards, supporting manufacturing through liaison engineering, technical support until its installation and aftermarket’s with CMM/IPL, and Service Bulletins technical publications.

After working for Fortune 500 companies as Gulfstream and Driessen Aircraft Interior Systems, Innocentro LLC is continuously on the move, now going into their 15th anniversary next September.
PIMSA salutes the local talented team of Innocentro LLC, youngsters with vision in the aerospace industry, a role model for future generations.
PDF version: PIMSA WHOS WHO INNOCENTRO LLC