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Issue 153 Souscrire

Attendance to the Largest Show in Latin America - Interview Part 2

The Mexican economy is a fast growing and developing economy. These growth and development brought with a lot mutation to the Mexican society. The challenges of yesterday are different than today’s challenges. So, the ways that Mexico has to deal with them also needed to be change. 

The NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), is a free trade agreement between Mexico, USA and Canada; established in 1994, was negotiated in different economical circumstance and is outdated today. By the initiative of Trump, a new deal has been made, USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and will be applied soon. Mexico also used to export 60% of its waste materials toward China. However, China decided to ban the import of plastics waste in the recent years. Moreover, Mexican companies are sensible about ecology and adopt a responsible attitude towards the transformation of plastic wastes. Actors of the Mexican plastics sector (Companies, Associations, Government) are aiming to a more efficient and ecological circular economy. At the national level, a new president has been elected, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, from a new political party MORENA. He has been promising a lot of changes in Mexico.  

Our Interviewees at PLASTIMAGEN 2019 are answering how they are adapting to these new changes.  

PLASTIMAGEN 2019 is the most complete and important event for the plastics industry in Latin America with:
•       870 companies
•       1600 brands
•       More than 100 experts in the conferences
•       28,011visitors from 41 countries.


 



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【ANIPAC】 
Interviewee: Aldimir Torres Arena / President
Company Type: Association
 
ANIPAC is the National Association of Plastic Industries in Mexico. Also, this is the first time PRM to interview them. There were quite interesting topics have been discussed such as renegotiation with NAFTA after Trump’s election, a new deal with USMCA, China’s ban for the import of waste materials and Mexico’s new presidential election. How those issues have been affecting the local market and how the local markets adapts the effects of those issues? Let’s listen Mr. Aldimir’s opinion about those.



Part 1 

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Part 2 

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【MAINCASA】
Interviewee: Ramón Chavez Ceja / Director BUS Plastic
Company Type: Agency
 
MainCasa is the largest plastic and rubber industry agency in Mexico; operation fields span extruders, injection molding machinery, auxiliary equipment, parts and components, robot arms. Moreover, Main Casa is still planning to expand. This exhibition, MainCasa was invited to the conference by Organizer together with big companies such as Arburg from Europe. Participants spoke Spanish to discuss the future trends of South American market.
Due to the content is very numerous, so the video divided into two parts. You will not only hear about the recent political and economic issues in Mexico, but also Mr. Ramón’s opinions about plastic & rubber market and difficult challenges he has faced.