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A brand new Bosch Rexroth manufacturing facility in Querétaro. | Credit: Bosch
With the opening of a brand new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, Bosch Rexroth is creating extra manufacturing capability for the expansion markets of cell hydraulics and manufacturing unit automation in North America and shortening supply routes. The firm is investing about 160 million euros within the new location and can create about 900 jobs by 2027. The purpose is to strengthen native manufacturing for the North American manufacturing unit automation and hydraulics market and thus have the ability to serve prospects even higher and extra effectively sooner or later.
At its 42,000-square-meter plant in Querétaro, Bosch Rexroth started manufacturing hydraulic pumps, motors, and valves for cell equipment comparable to excavators, forklifts, and tractors in June. The firm prepares the ramp-up of hydraulic elements and merchandise of linear movement know-how. It is deliberate that extra merchandise shall be manufactured there for cell equipment (transmission models, radial piston motors) in addition to linear movement know-how merchandise (rails, runner blocks) for purposes in mechanical and plant engineering in addition to manufacturing unit automation. Overall, trade specialists anticipate robust development for cell equipment and for the manufacturing unit automation market, particularly in North America.
“With its local-for-local strategy, Bosch Rexroth increases the capacity, flexibility and robustness of supply chains, reduces the CO2 footprint by regionally manufactured products and achieves shorter delivery times,” emphasizes Reinhard Schaefer, Member of the Management Board of Bosch Rexroth with duty for manufacturing and high quality. In addition to its present provider base in North America, Bosch Rexroth depends on a secure and additional rising provider community in Mexico, for instance for castings, machining, metal, drive shafts or cylinders.
Together with the Bosch Rexroth manufacturing websites in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania), Charlotte (North Carolina), Fountain Inn (South Carolina) and Lincolnshire (Illinois) within the United States, which have been present for many years, the brand new plant in Querétaro will serve the market with hydraulic and Factory Automation options in a a lot sooner and secure method. In Fountain Inn, Bosch Rexroth is increasing its providers to incorporate prototyping, customizing, re-manufacturing, and aftermarket service and spare components.
“With our growing production capacity in this region, we can react even faster than before to customer requirements and meet the growing demand for components and solutions, in particular for agricultural and construction machinery and OEM machine builders in North America,” provides Christoph Kleu, Senior Vice President Finance and Administration of Bosch Rexroth in North America. “Our customers in North America will continue to order from their regional contact at Bosch Rexroth, but they will have more options for transport and delivery,” provides Kleu.