And the thunder rolls

Today was another extremely busy day, we visited 3 companies, 2 American and one Costa Rican. Both Boston Scientific and Semtec are American companies who are located in business duty free industrial parks. The benefit of this is that the companies are able to import and export without cost or tax. The negative to this is that it comes with strings attached, such as the company makes promises to the community by employing a certain percentage of their employees. 

The first tour was Boston Scientific Industrial Plant where they assemble minimally invasive surgical equipment, 90% of which is used in the United States. Our next stop was the Costa Rican souvenir manufacture, which is the largest manufacturer and provides 70% of all central Americas souvenirs. This was the most interesting part of the day for me, it was very interesting how different the safety standees were from the Americans companies to the Costa Rican. In the souvenir plant, the workers worked very closely with drills, and we were even allowed to walk I between the ire stations. When we visited the other companies we had to stay on a certain path and wear safety goggles. 

After lunch we headed to Semtec, which creates the electronic components. Just like Boston scientific, Semtec is headquartered in Indiana.  In 2006 they created the plant in Costa Rica, which became wildly successful. Both of the American companies offered amazing benefits to their employees, healthcare (you receive free health care in Costa Rica if you work and contribute to society, U.S. Should adopt this) free transportation, doctors on site. Banks on site, free cafeteria and free gym and work out classes. 

After all that excitement, we went to down town San Jose where we saw their market and road of store after store.