Experts predict that global manufacturing will register a slowdown during the first months of 2012. The textile-clothing established in Mexico seems to be no exception. The sector started the year with 10% less production, fewer companies 5% and 5% fewer jobs than recorded in the first months of 2011.

More countries need to undertake economic significance studies to prove the value of meetings on national economies, said a panel of industry experts at EIBTM in Barcelona this week.

The violence in this state does not limit the expansion projects of steel, says Daniel Overgil, the CEO of the company claims that two new plants will be operating by early 2013.