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American Axle to supply power transfer units for 2019 Ford crossovers
American Axle & Manufacturing will supply Power Transfer Units (PTU) for Ford Motor Co. crossover vehicles with all-wheel drive (AWD)…
UGN Inc. hires lean manufacturing veteran Donald Nelson as COO
Illinois-based automotive components manufacturer UGN Inc. announced it has selected lean manufacturing veteran Donald J. Nelson as the company’s new…
Steel, aluminum tariffs have already driven up General Motors costs, says CEO
Tariffs on aluminum and steel have already driven up costs in General Motors, CEO Mary Barra acknowledged Tuesday during a…
Ohio-based Bendix celebrates 30 years of manufacturing operations in Acuña, Coahuila
First came Plant I, in May 1988, focused on OEM assembly and machining for the Controls business unit. Plant II…
Mexico’s auto production up 3.9% in May; exports? Yeah, about that…
Mexico’s auto production grew 3.9% last May to 352,860 units, a record for the month, according to the latest data…
Bulkmatic invests US$ 100 million to build fuel storage facilities in Hidalgo and Sonora
Bulkmatic Transport Co., a dry bulk carrier based in Indiana which currently builds a fuel storage terminal in Salinas Victoria,…
Regardless of NAFTA, Ferrero Rocher weighs investments in Mexico for up to US$ 200 million
Five years after inaugurating its first plant in Mexico, Italian chocolatier Ferrero Rocher has started new investments to increase its…
Texas-based refiner Andeavor to build US$ 100 million fuel storage facility in Baja California
Andeavor recently announced plans to build a refined products terminal in the state of Baja California, specifically at the Rosarito…
Boosted by automation, Tesla is on track to build 5,000 Model 3 cars per week
Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed last week that production of Model 3 has steadily improved at the Tesla Factory in…
German auto supplier HELLA opens US$12 million plant in Guanajuato
German automotive electronics and lightning components supplier Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., better known as HELLA, inaugurated its eighth manufacturing…
Japanese manufacturer Nissen Chemitec opens US$18 million plant in Guanajuato
Nissen Chemitec, a Japanese manufacturer of automotive injection molded parts, inaugurated its first production facility in Mexico, located in the…
Italian automated die casting solutions supplier Artimpianti to open new plant in Nuevo Leon
Artimpianti Group, an Italian designer and manufacturer of aluminum gravity die casting machines and peripheral processes, announced it will open…
Daimler unveils electric Class 8 truck likely to be built in Saltillo
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) unveiled earlier this week two new, fully-electric trucks from Freightliner, its leading U.S. truck brand,…
Here’s how US sales of Mexico-made vehicles ended up in May
Demand of light trucks reflected in sales of some Mexico-made models in May with three-digit and two-digit growing rates for…
Voestalpine opens US$ 30 million cold stamping plant in Aguascalientes
Austrian manufacturer Voestalpine AG recently started operations in a new cold stamping production site in Aguascalientes, central Mexico. Voestalpine Automotive…
