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Villa Nueva as an industrial municipality: permits and IUSI

Dossier
Municipal intelligence for siting18-municipios.md
Domain
The country, department by departmentmunicipios
Room
Economy/economia
Audited
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Villa Nueva is the industrial municipality par excellence: the city government reports 282 industrial plants (food, plastics, textiles, metalworking, chemicals, paints, paper, wood) and names as anchors Laboratorios Donovan Werke, INGASA and GALCASA, Pinturas Celco, Durman Esquivel, Coca-Cola/FEMSA and PepsiCo; it is at the same time a commuter municipality with strong retail and banking. Parks: the Consigna free zone (Granjas Italia) and the Unisur Industrial Park (km 20, Bárcenas); access via the CA-9 Sur, with its own municipal transit police. It has a physical Municipal One-Stop Window and an Electronic Municipal Window; the Urban Management office publishes online its regulations, forms and building-permit requirements by type (residential, commercial/industrial, subdivisions, earthworks, hoardings, poles/cabling), and the property tax (IUSI) account statement can even be checked over WhatsApp. In FUNDESA's 2025 Local Competitiveness Index (ICL) it ranks 5th in the country (72.21).

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

Figures

Industrial plants reportedMunicipalidad de Villa Nueva
282undated municipal figure
Local Competitiveness Index 2025FUNDESA ICL 2025
72.21, rank 52025

Caveat

the 282-plant figure is municipal data with no date

Sources

Organizations named in the answer

  • Laboratorios Donovan WerkeAn anchor company named by the Villa Nueva municipality among its 282 industrial plants (a precedent for industrial siting on the CA-9 South corridor)Company case
  • INGASAGalvanised products; an anchor company named by the Villa Nueva municipality (a precedent for industrial siting)Company case
  • GALCASAGalvanised products; an anchor company named by the Villa Nueva municipality (a precedent for industrial siting)Company case
  • Pinturas CelcoPaints; an anchor company named by the Villa Nueva municipality (a precedent for industrial siting)Company case
  • Durman EsquivelAn anchor company named by the Villa Nueva municipality (a precedent for industrial siting)Company case
  • Coca-Cola/FEMSABeverages; an anchor company named by the Villa Nueva municipality (a precedent for industrial siting)Company case

and 2 more · Directory of organizations

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