Roads & Infrastructure July 2019

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MAJOR PROJECTS CIBER’S INOVA 2000 WAS THE MOBILE ASPHALT PLANT OF CHOICE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF IMPORTANT HIGHWAYS IN MEXICO’S FOREMOST ECONOMIC REGION.

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urrently, Mexico is among the 10 largest car producers and five largest exporters in the world. It is projected the country will produce six million vehicles by 2022 with more than half to be exported. Many of the main car manufacturers for several automobile brands are located in the central region of the country, just 67 The iNOVA 2000 speeds up production time.

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kilometres from the nation’s capital. Due to the industrial and economic importance of the region, one of the main highways, the Toluca-Naucalpan highway, has been under construction since 2014. The works for the project included the construction of the A4 highway with two lanes in each direction for a total length of

39 kilometres, budgeted at $398 million. The road has a capacity of 30,000 vehicles daily and connects five municipalities. It brings social and economic advantages to the region channelling vehicles from the northern and western region of the Valley of Mexico to the city of Toluca. Vehicles from these places currently travel on the


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