ABB, a global technology leader in electrification and automation, has completed an expansion of its Mexico Technology and Engineering Center (MXTEC), a strategically important operations facility serving North America — doubling the facility’s office space. Located in the city of Merida in Yucatán state, the centre is growing to meet market growth across a range of industries and innovation potential through specialisms including engineering, sales and project support.
Since opening two years ago, MXTEC has expanded its workforce to 43 people, broadening scope into trade, logistics and HSE, and now has ambitions to recruit up to 10 more in 2025. The increased investment in facilities reflects successes achieved in servicing process industries including mining, pulp and paper and cement among others, in Canada, USA, Mexico and parts of the Caribbean. MXTEC has also added a cyber security lead and quality manager for the Americas.
Ambitions for the year ahead are to grow distributed control system (DCS) and quality control system (QCS) capabilities, supporting customers with combined automation, electrification and digitalisation projects, including use of ABB’s latest controllers and components.
Jan Majersky, operations manager for Mexico at ABB Process Industries, said: “I am proud to report that the team dynamic in MXTEC is very strong and that we have had 100% employee retention to date. We know the quality of the projects these colleagues have been embedded into and they are showing high levels of care and collaboration for customers — it is highly rewarding for all. Now that we have expanded the facilities, we believe we have an even better environment for growth and innovation with our technologies and engineering capabilities.”
By evolving the technical skills of its people and developing lead engineers at MXTEC, ABB aims to go some way to filling known generational skills gaps in the industries it serves and provide attractive career paths.
The centre has connections with ABB’s other operations centres around the world, including in India and Czechia, and also works with Mexican universities. The first cohort of employees received comprehensive training at ABB’s Czech Operations Centre in Ostrava and are now training their colleagues in Merida.