70's
Our internationaliza- tion began.

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Our internationalization began. In 1973, the Company began operations in Costa Rica with the production and marketing of packaged tortillas, and made  a great effort for mass distribution. Costa Rica would provide great lessons for us:

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Development of high-speed machines
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Soy protein enrichment of tortillas
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Proving that tortillas could be manufactured, packaged, preserved and distributed without losing their properties
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Iinfrastructure to cover the large quantity of distribution routes

Currently, many of GRUMA's most successful products in Mexico and worldwide are being tested in Costa Rica. For these reasons, this country is regarded as a learning laboratory for GRUMA. 
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In the mid-1970s, we arrived in the United States and purchased the Mission Foods plant in California. What GRUMA learned in this country and its subsequent success in the world's most developed market, would lead us to mature as company and accelerate our technology development even more. 
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At the same time, a new business was growing  and with proprietary technology, our affiliate, TECNOMAIZ, S.A. DE C.V. was founded. It develops, manufactures and markets corntortilla production lines with varying capacities, including machines producing 50 tortillas per minute for small Mexican neighborhood tortilla shops  and lines with a manufacturing capacity of 600 tortillas per minute for our tortilla sales operations in Costa Rica, which were later marketed in the United States.

These tortilla machines began to position themselves on the market until they became one of the most recognized and best quality brands.