The Second Annual Baja California International Aerospace Supplier Forum, July 20-21st 2011, is the premier Business to Business event in northwest Mexico for the Aerospace and Defense Industry. In this second edition the event will be larger and in a better setting, it will be held within Matrix, one of Latin America’s largest maintenance and repair hangers, at the Tijuana International Airport.

Benefit from the more than 500 scheduled business meetings with global leaders such as Eaton Aerospace, C&D Zodiac, Tyco Electronics, Delphi, Parker, Honeywell, Goodrich, Gulfstream, and GKN, among others.

It’s time to expand your business in Tijuana, here’s why: Mexico has become an ideal partner for the “high mix/low volume” aerospace industry. In the last 10 years exports have grown over 15 times, from 270 million in 2001 to an estimated 5 billion in 2010, and it is expected to double within 5 years. Mexico’s Near-Shore platform facilitates engineering, intellectual property protection, quality control and safety certification, especially for the manufacture of sensitive products to U.S. National Security as well as of the United Kingdom, Canada and France.

Baja California has over 50 aerospace and defense companies, which represent 35% of all companies within Mexico that manufacture and assemble parts and components for this sector. Most of these companies are located in the cities of Tijuana and Mexicali, with immediate access to California and the west coast of the United States.

Tijuana’s geographic location on the Pacific Rim, “next-door” to the U.S. provides companies major opportunities for success:immediate access to the California market and to rest of the United States, modern communications and logistics infrastructure, highly skilled and young workforce, with over 15,000 engineering students, a world class manufacturing culture, with over 90% plants ISO certified, pro-business culture focused on developing manufacturing clusters and over 45 years of experience in manufacturing.