San Xxxx Río Colorado, Sonora Sample Clauses

San Xxxx Río Colorado, Sonora. Maquiladoras are the main industrial operation in San Xxxx Río Colorado. A maquiladora is a Mexican assembly or manufacturing operation that can be subject to up to 100% non-Mexican ownership. Maquiladoras utilize competitively priced Mexican labor in assembly, processing and/or other manufacturing operations. Most component parts are temporarily imported from the United States or other countries. Mexican law also allows these operations to bring in most capital, equipment and machinery from abroad. Maquiladora operations are generally labor-intensive cost centers, with most productions geared for export from Mexico. Finally, maquiladoras may be entirely foreign (U.S.) managed and 100% U.S. owned, unlike other multi-nationals operating in Mexico. The Mexican government created the Maquiladora Program in 1966 to generate employment, to augment the Mexican trade balance and to promote technology transfer. One million Mexican workers are employed in over 2,500 maquilas, making the maquila industry the number two source of jobs in all of Mexico. Job growth in the maquila sector has averaged 12.1% annually over the last ten years. Approximately 29 maquiladoras and other industrial facilities currently operate in San Xxxx Río Colorado, Sonora (See Appendix C). Examining product processes helps to identify many of the hazardous materials used, stored, or handled in San Xxxx Río Colorado. The twenty-nine industrial facilities are sorted into several different categories. Facilities included within the same category may have different hazardous materials inventories. Many of these facilities only perform product assembly, or provide other services which do not require the use of hazardous materials. Twelve of the facilities (41 percent) assemble or manufacture clothing or other textile products. Chemicals typically used in the manufacture and finishing of textiles include formaldehyde, metallic salts (such as zinc nitrate and magnesium chloride), glyoxal, organometallic compounds, zinc acetate with peroxide, and chlorine. Six of the facilities (21 percent) identified in San Xxxx Río Colorado manufacture or assemble electronic and electric appliances or materials and supplies used in electronic equipment of electric appliances. In the production of electronic devices and supplies, acids which are commonly used as etchants include hydrochloric, sulfuric, glacial acetic, nitric and hydrofluoric. Use of other solvents and resins is also common. Two of the facilities (7...