Pompil Corsame, President of the Export Processing Zone Chamber of Exporters and Manufacturers (EPZCEM) stated that Luen Thai International Group headed by Raymond Tan has put up a multinational firm here. A class but inexpensive hotel and restaurant in the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) will be built to provide the needs of the growing number of investors in the area. Luen Thai owns some existing garments manufacturing firms in Clark Special Economic Zone, Tarlac and in Cebu.

According to Hermosa Mayor Danny Malana the Sumi Philippines Wiring Systems Corp. will hire about 3,000 workers early next year. Malana also added that HEIP is a 165-hectare industrial estate component in a 478-hectare mixed-use property development in the municipality.

Through the Executive Order 675 issued in November 2007, the partnership of SBMA and Hermosa town plans to include some lands of Hermosa, Bataan as extension of the free port.

In a meeting with SBMA directors Bienvenido Benitez, Philip Camara, John Philip Chua Chiaco and Ramon Diez Sesdoryo, Hermosa Mayor Danilo Malana stated that the Bataan Provincial Council has passed a resolution last January "concurring and adopting Executive Order 675 which authorizes certain contiguous areas in Hermosa to be declared as additional secured areas under the Subic Bay Special Economic and Freeport Zone as defined under Proclamation No. 532 dated February 1, 1995."

The recent successful launching of an environmental protection drive aimed at protecting and preserving the exceptional beauty of Tarak Peak, the highest mountain range which serves as well as watershed in Mariveles Bataan has created an environmental consciousness with the support showed by government officials and private folks.