Lighting Science Group Corp. (LSCG)

[johnnyfiber]

Just looking into Monterey Mexico. Looks like GE, Phillips, and Sylvania all have manufacturing plants there.


(LSCG) "It is working with contract manufacturers in China and negotiating to lease a 65,000-square-foot plant in Monterrey, Mexico."

http://www.tradereform.org/2010/09/an-american-innovation-in-light-bulbs-but-will-manufacturing-stay-in-the-u-s/

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Another similarly "smart" city in the developing world is Monterrey, Mexico, which has emerged from relative obscurity and turned itself into a major industrial and engineering center over the past few decades. The city of 3.5 million sits adjacent to the dynamic U.S.-Mexico border region and has 57 industrial parks specializing in everything from chemicals and cement to telecommunications and industrial machinery.

Over the last decade, the area has consistently grown at a faster rate than the rest of Mexico--or, for that matter, the United States. Monterrey and its surrounding state, Nuevo Leon, now boast per-capita GDP roughly twice that of the rest of Mexico.

Although hard-hit by the current recession, Monterrey seems poised for an eventual recovery. Dominated by powerful industrial families, the area has long been business-friendly. It has also become a major education center, with over 82 institutions of higher learning and 125,000 students, led by the Instituto Technologico de Monterey, considered by some Mexico's equivalent of MIT or Cal Tech.

http://www.joelkotkin.com/content/0097-worlds-smartest-cities

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Mexico
Philips Mexicana SA de CV corporate office is based in Mexico City.
There are several manufacturing plants in Mexico. Some of them are:

Philips Lighting in:

Monterrey, Nuevo León

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips

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Cenin noted that the approximately 25 percent of Winchester’s products that are currently
exempted from legislation – 3-way incandescent and appliance bulbs, for example – will be
consolidated in GE Lighting’s existing plant in Monterrey, Mexico, where similar products are already
made.

http://crossroadsled.com/documents/GE%20PRESS%20RELEASE%20INCANDESCENT%20LIGHT%20BULB.pdf

GE Lighting has a history of innovation and is responsible for pioneering many of the world's most significant lighting inventions. GE Lighting's incandescent lamps have been manufactured in Monterrey since 1929.

http://www.ge.com/mex/en/business/lighting.html

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OSRAM SYLVANIA's Electronic Control Systems Division today announced plans to produce electronic ballasts in Mexico for the NAFTA region. The company has signed an agreement to purchase a 62,500-square-foot facility located at Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, a municipality adjacent to Monterrey and minutes from the Monterrey International Airport.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a7MsIB11YEcJ:www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing/electrical-appliance-equipment/6005102-1.html+monterrey+mexico+%22lighting%22+phillips&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us