Bendix Facility in Mexico Reaches Milestone
The Acuña, Mexico, manufacturing operation of Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems and Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake is celebrating a 30-year milestone, with Bendix having opened the first of its current four plants there in 1988. The fourth facility, a logistics center, joined the operation last fall.
Acuña represents one of the fastest growing Bendix manufacturing sites, and executives of the Germany-based Knorr-Bremse Group — Bendix’s parent company — consider it a model manufacturing facility. Knorr-Bremse honored the Acuña operation as its top-ranked plant in 2011.
Bendix Acuña also supports a distribution center in Mexico City that serves South American customers and houses the headquarters of Mexico-based OEM and aftermarket technical sales, training and support teams, according to the Elyria, Ohio-based Bendix.
Most recently, to support increasing customer demand, Bendix doubled the plant’s manufacturing capabilities, through production line expansion and improvement, for high-performing solenoid valves and assembled manifolds.
The facility also produces driver control modules on an advanced new assembly line. The modules — complex premanufactured, pretested subassemblies — are built for Navistar Inc., and are used in medium-duty, Class 8 and military vehicles. Navistar is the parent company of the International truck brand.
Bendix is a leading North American manufacturer of active safety, air management and braking system technologies for commercial vehicles.
