“Biotech is the second company to operate inside the Hermosa Ecozone. The Japanese firm Sumi Philippines Wiring Systems Corporation (SPWS), the first and largest locator inside the Hermosa Ecozone, presently employs 3,340 employees and is now on their expansion stage, building a second manufacturing plant and will hire an additional 4,000 new employees next year.
The HEIP, one of the 300 economic zones that employ almost a million Filipinos nationwide, is under the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) whose law was authored by former Bataan Congressman Felicito Payumo.