October 15, 2009

Valle Bonito Industrial Park, Tijuana, Baja California

BajaMak is a regional trade show created to promote the supply requirements of the manufacturing industry located in Baja California and Northwestern Mexico, as well as products and services from specialized providers oriented towards increasing NAFTA integration of the industrial sector. BajaMak is divided into five specialized pavilions in the aerospace, automotive, medical, metal-mechanic and electronics sectors, where leading industries will promote their supply and service requirements.

Each of these pavilions will host industrial suppliers and service provider companies from the US and Mexico, as well as a pavilion for shelter and outsourcing companies and software developers.  BajaMak will also host a green pavilion.  During the 2008 edition BajaMak had the participation of 45 maquiladora buyers, l80 supplier companies and 2300 attendees

Bajamak 2009 location information

With a population of approximately 3.2 million and an annual growth rate of 4.15 %, Baja California is Mexico’s leading producer of television and computer monitors, with an estimated production of 19 million units in 2008. Baja California is divided into five municipalities with two principal cities: Tijuana with 51.6 % of population, Mexicali, the state’s capital with 27.7 %.

Tijuana, where the BAJAMAK Industrial Expo takes place, is a hardworking industrial community with more than 47 years experience in off-shore manufacturing. Tijuana has more maquiladora plants than any other city in the country, with over 919 and approximately 250,000 workers. Maquiladora companies in the electronics sector account for 30 % (directly or indirectly) of the total number of assembly plants.  A large percentage of these companies are firms form Southeast Asia and the U.S.; among them Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Daewoo, Hitachi, Hyundai, Honeywell, JVC and others.

WEBINAR: JULY 7, 2009

The USDOC Foreign Commercial Service Mexico team is organizing a Web Seminar to talk about Bajamak and the importance of this tradeshow/match-making event destined for US companies. If your company is interested, please join us in the webinar!

Interested in participating in the Webinar?

For further information and questions please contact Ricardo Calderon or Monica Rosas