Microsoft Corp. will be shuttering its only wholly owned manufacturing facility in the world, located in Humacao, in 2024, leaving 78 employees jobless, Department of Economic Development and Commerce Secretary Manuel Cidre confirmed. Microsoft Operations Puerto Rico in Humacao has been doing business there since 1989. At present, it is occupying a building owned by […]
With an investment of $1.4 million and applying the “most advanced technology and infrastructure,” Puerto Rican global transportation and logistics services company, Prime Air Corp. began the construction of its second temperature-controlled warehouse in the cargo area of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. The facility seeks to supply the growing demand from pharmaceutical companies […]
As part of the activities to mark “Manufacturing Week 2021” locally and in the US mainland, Puerto Rico Manufacturing Extension Inc. (PRiMEX), held a round table with business leaders, who discussed the opportunities and how the manufacturing of the future will be built. Leaders agreed that Puerto Rico needs to maintain the existing manufacturing industry, […]