ContiTech Schwingmetall News

June 2009ContiTech Vibration Control has opened a new production site in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Located eight kilometers away from ContiTech Mexicana’s headquarters, the plant has been producing engine mounts for installation as automotive original equipment since April 2009. By 2012 around 150 employees will be employed there, producing up to one million engine mount systems a year. Through 2011 ContiTech will be investing approx. €8 million in production facilities, infrastructure and information technology. This is in addition to approx. €5.4 million in tool investments to be partially borne by the customers. The plants to be supplied are in Mexico and the US and thus likewise in the NAFTA zone. Hydro-bushings and hydromounts are already slated for production this year, followed by plastic bearings in 2010.

Use of the plant in Mexico also opens up new prospects for non-automotive applications. “The plant in Mexico offers an ideal basis for quickly serving the North American market with the vibration control products industries there are in need of,” says Frank Dahmen, head of sales for the Industry segment. For the moment the primary focus is on products for use by industry as original equipment. In developing dedicated solutions, sales engineers provide the North American customers on-site support. What is more, the rich MEGI® and SCHWINGMETALL® product lines are marketed by competent sales partners like Argus Industries in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and The Rubber Group in Somersworth, New Hampshire, U.S.A.