The movement of factories from Asia to Mexico responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and not due to nearshoring, indicates the Mexican Association of Innovative Industries of Medical Devices (AMID)

Mexico became the manufacturing center for a dozen companies that arrived due to the Covid-19 pandemic to manufacture ventilators, monitors, as well as products for pulmonology, nephrology, and cancer.

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"As a result of the pandemic, many countries are betting on Mexico, many plants are expanding their production in Mexico, which has traditionally been a destination for manufacturing medical devices," reveals Ana Riquelme, executive director of the Mexican Association of Innovative Device Industries. Doctors (AMID).

"There were 40 manufacturing plants (affiliated with) the Mexican Association of Innovative Industries of Medical Devices before the Covid-19 pandemic, right now we have almost 50 companies," he told Forbes Mexico. Various companies want to re-install an operation line in Mexico or expand their production capacity, says the key business organization for the health of Mexico and the world.

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The manufacturing of medical devices in Mexico has the conditions to grow as much as the automotive industry. During the Covid-19 pandemic, companies tripled the production of medical devices in Mexico because without that production it would not have been possible to supply the entire world, he says.

Exports of medical devices gained momentum due to the proximity of Mexico to the United States, one of the main innovators in the health industry.

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