May 20, 2024

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A brand new Bosch Rexroth manufacturing facility in Querétaro. | Credit score: Bosch

With the opening of a brand new plant in Querétaro, Mexico, Bosch Rexroth is creating extra manufacturing capability for the expansion markets of cellular hydraulics and manufacturing unit automation in North America and shortening supply routes. The corporate is investing about 160 million euros within the new location and can create about 900 jobs by 2027. The goal is to strengthen native manufacturing for the North American manufacturing unit automation and hydraulics market and thus be capable of 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 cellular equipment equivalent to excavators, forklifts, and tractors in June. The corporate prepares the ramp-up of hydraulic parts and merchandise of linear movement expertise. It’s deliberate that further merchandise will probably be manufactured there for cellular equipment (transmission models, radial piston motors) in addition to linear movement expertise merchandise (rails, runner blocks) for functions in mechanical and plant engineering in addition to manufacturing unit automation. Total, trade specialists anticipate robust development for cellular equipment and for the manufacturing unit automation market, particularly in North America.

“With its local-for-local technique, Bosch Rexroth will increase the capability, flexibility and robustness of provide chains, reduces the CO2 footprint by regionally manufactured merchandise and achieves shorter supply instances,” emphasizes Reinhard Schaefer, Member of the Administration Board of Bosch Rexroth with accountability for manufacturing and high quality. Along with its current provider base in North America, Bosch Rexroth depends on a steady and additional rising provider community in Mexico, for instance for castings, machining, metal, drive shafts or cylinders.

Along with the Bosch Rexroth manufacturing websites in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania), Charlotte (North Carolina), Fountain Inn (South Carolina) and Lincolnshire (Illinois) in the US, which have been current for many years, the brand new plant in Querétaro will serve the market with hydraulic and Manufacturing unit Automation options in a a lot sooner and steady manner. In Fountain Inn, Bosch Rexroth is increasing its companies to incorporate prototyping, customizing, re-manufacturing, and aftermarket service and spare elements.

“With our rising manufacturing capability on this area, we will react even sooner than earlier than to buyer necessities and meet the rising demand for parts and options, specifically for agricultural and development equipment and OEM machine builders in North America,” provides Christoph Kleu, Senior Vice President Finance and Administration of Bosch Rexroth in North America. “Our prospects in North America will proceed to order from their regional contact at Bosch Rexroth, however they’ll have extra choices for transport and supply,” provides Kleu.