Schaeffler opens new plant in Mexico

Schaeffler Mexico has double reason to celebrate. In addition to the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Schaeffler plant in Puebla, the company also celebrated the opening of its second plant at the Huejotzingo location, also in the Mexican State of Puebla.

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The new Schaeffler plant in Huejotzingo specializes in the manufacture of torque converters for US and Japanese automobile manufacturers. It has a production area of approximately 16,000 square meters with highly developed manufacturing equipment, in-house tool manufacturing, and a research and development center. The plant will employ around 550 members of staff and plans for the future expansion of the plant are already underway.

Georg F. W. Schaeffler, Chairman of the Schaeffler AG Supervisory Board and shareholder of the Schaeffler Group, Rafael Moreno Valle, governor of the Mexican State of Puebla, and Carlos Alberto Morales Alvarez, mayor of Huejotzingo, also visited the new manufacturing plant to celebrate the inauguration of the new plant and at the same time the 40-year-old existence of the first site in Puebla.

The first Schaeffler plant at the Puebla location was established 40 years ago and has a production area of approximately 22,000 square meters. At this plant, 1,100 employees manufacture clutch systems, double clutches, actuators, and dual mass flywheels for a series of globally-operating automobile manufacturers.

With these two plants in Puebla, the Schaeffler Group now has a total of three manufacturing locations in Mexico. The Schaeffler plant in Irapuato, which is in the Mexican State of Guanajuato, was established in 2008 and supplies customers from the automotive industry and industrial companies in Mexico and North America with rolling bearings as well as products for engine systems and chassis applications.

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