The U.S – Mexico border states are an important piece for the global aerospace industry because this area concentrates the knowledge, design, innovation and manufacturing this business needs to excel and deliver high quality products to be used worldwide.
Major aerospace and defense firms with manufacturing facilities in the U.S – Mexico border states include Honeywell, Gulfstream, Textron, Rockwell Collins, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Safran, Fokker, Triumph, and Bombardier.
From 3D printing and mobile data collection, to the design of aerospace materials that are both strong and light, innovation is present in all aspects of aerospace manufacturing in this region. Most of the time, the processes done at each side of the border complement each other and the parts and
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Some of these processes include die and sand casting, heat treatment, vacuum heat treatments, passivation, brazing, CAD planting, sintering, surface treatment, HVOI spay, plasma spray, platinum and gold planting, sulphuric and chromic anodize, priming, and painting.
In the CaliBaja region, aircraft fuselage is a specialty on both sides of the border. Nowadays, Baja California is home to over 80 aerospace and defense firms doing high precision machining, heat treatment, casting and forges, and special processes for the aerospace industry, while its counterpart, San Diego, is a North American aerospace hub. This city is the home of some of the world's largest aerospace, aircraft and R&D companies, which are part of an aerospace, navigation, and maritime technologies cluster.
California is the home of companies such as Northrop Grumman, Boeing Satellite Systems, Space X, Virgin Galactic, Via Sat, Lockheed Martin, and Vulcan Aerospace. Recently, Honeywell increased its investment in wind tunnel technology in