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Santana Textiles Corporation of Brazil to Build $180 Million Manufacturing Plant in Edinburg

A South American textile company will build a $180 million denim-manufacturing plant in Edinburg, Texas creating 800 new jobs and pumping millions of dollars into the local economy, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced.

Santana Textiles Corporation of Ceara, Brazil, one of the world’s largest denim manufacturers, plans to construct – on a 23-acre site located in Edinburg's North Industrial Park – a 300,000-square-foot complex which will turn cotton into denim fabric.

Denim is the foundation of a huge worldwide industry that produces billions of dollars annually in affordable, comfortable clothes, such as long skirts, jackets, shirts, and – most famously – blue jeans, a staple fashion with deep roots in this nation's history.

The first phase of the sprawling plant, which will be built in three stages, is slated to open in 2010.

When the three phases are completed in 2014, the foreign-owned enterprise, which will include a treatment plant, will eventually encompass about 400,000-square-feet of manufacturing space.

The manufacturing plant, which will utilize high-technology equipment for converting cotton into the finished product through spinning, weaving, and dyeing, also will bring high-paying jobs to the region, averaging more than $26,500 annually.

Raimundo Delfino is president of Santana and his son, Raimundo “Neto” Delfino, Jr., is the company’s general manager.

The Edinburg plant will be Santana Textiles’ first presence in the United States. The company has industrial plants in Brazil and Argentina, and offices in Mexico.

The company selected Edinburg after a competitive search throughout locations in North and South America. They chose Edinburg because of the state and local incentives, as well as the city’s proximity to cotton growers, said "Neto" Delfino.

“After evaluating all the sites, we decided that Edinburg offered all the right conditions to expand our denim manufacturing operations in the U.S.,” he added. “We couldn’t find a better partner than the State of Texas and the City of Edinburg.”

Texas is providing a $1.65 million incentive to the company through the Texas Enterprise Fund, a special state fund that he controls. This is the first project in South Texas to receive money from the TEF, which was created in 2003 to attract new businesses to the Lone Star State.

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