Manufacturing/Suppliers
While El Paso is a nationally competitive manufacturing location in its own right, the region is a globally competitive manufacturing center. Our success stems from our ability to offer manufacturing companies the opportunity to engage in production sharing. Production sharing is a strategy whereby companies produce a component, subassembly or finished product by locating production facilities in close proximity to one another, but which remain physically located in both the United States and México.
Possessing the largest bilingual and bicultural workforce in the Western Hemisphere has only added to the production-sharing success story. Delphi, Hoover, Leviton, Sumitomo and Cardinal Health are just some of the world’s largest companies employing the production-sharing strategy.
THE STRATEGY
While specific production-sharing strategies vary, companies have the potential to build a vertically integrated manufacturing presence in the region by placing capital-intensive component manufacturing in El Paso and final assembly in Cd. Juárez.
As the chart below indicates, the Greater El Paso region is one of the largest manufacturing centers in North America, with more than 214,000 persons employed in manufacturing. The vast majority are engaged in production sharing for businesses manufacturing automotive parts, medical devices, consumer products, electric motors, electronic components and more.
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Largest Manufacturing Centers in North America by Total Number of Manufacturing Employees 1 |
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Region |
# Employees |
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Los Angeles / Long Beach / Santa Ana |
524,600 |
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Chicago / Naperville / Joliet |
406,500 |
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New York City / Northern New Jersey / Long Island |
359,600 |
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Dallas / Fort Worth / Arlington |
250,800 |
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San Diego / Carlsbad / San Marcos/Tijuana² |
244,801 |
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Houston / Sugar Land / Baytown |
229,300 |
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El Paso / Las Cruces / Cd. Juárez³ |
214,412 |
| Detroit / Warren / Livonia |
202,000 |
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Boston / Cambridge / Quincy |
200,300 |
| Philadelphia / Camden / Wilmington |
181,900 |
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Minneapolis / St. Paul / Bloomington |
175,900 |
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Atlanta / Sandy Springs / Marietta |
146,700 |
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Cleveland / Elyria / Mentor |
118,600 |
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St. Louis |
111,100 |
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