Andrew Corp is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of communications equipment and systems to broadband service providers and broadcasters throughout the world. The S&P 500 company will use the facility to produce microwave and satellite earth station equipment for North American and export markets.

The facility, leased from Reynosa Industrial Center S.A. de C.V., is already in partial operation and will be in full-scale production later this month, according to Andrew Corp. In conjunction with the ramp-up, a source at Andrew Corp. tells GlobeSt.com a manufacturing facility in Denton, TX is in the process of being shut down. "All manufacturing there is being transferred to Mexico," says the source.

Located nine miles south of McAllen and linked to its U.S. counterpart by two bridges across the Rio Grande River, Reynosa is a principal city along the United States - Mexico border. It has a population of approximately 750,000. "Our Reynosa facility will enable us to do business more cost-efficiently," said Robert J. Hudzik, vice president, corporate development, Andrew Corp. "Reynosa will become a key manufacturing site for us."