Global auto suppliers Katcon and Tata establish joint venture in Monterrey

Monterrey-based Katcon Global and Indian automotive components shaper Tata AutoComp Systems person announced a associated task to manufacture precocious composites for the automotive manufacture successful Mexico.

Katcon Global — founded successful Monterrey successful 1993 — is simply a person successful exhaust systems, thermal insulation and precocious materials components with 11 manufacturing plants and 5 exertion centers successful 8 countries.

Katcon supplies starring OEMs (original instrumentality manufacturers) crossed North America, Europe and Asia done its manufacturing and R&D facilities.

Tata AutoComp — established successful 1995 successful Pune, India, nether the aegis of the Tata Group, which owns the Jaguar Land Rover marque — specializes successful the design, development, manufacturing and proviso of auto-component products and services, including components for next-generation electrical vehicles (EVs). The institution has 61 factories worldwide, including successful India, North America, Latin America, Europe and China. 

According to a property release, the associated task “will specialize successful lightweight applications for rider and commercialized vehicles, cultivation tractors, off-road vehicles, and specialized non-automotive segments.”

In summation to its 2 plants successful Monterrey, Katcon besides runs The Katcon Institute of Innovation and Technology (KIIT), which is focused connected CAD & CAE engineering. (Katcon)

The caller task builds connected a 13-year concern successful India betwixt Tata and Katcon focused connected exhaust systems and emanation after-treatment solutions.

Katcon CEO Carlos Turner said the caller concern “reflects our shared committedness to innovation and excellence,”  which reinforces his company’s strategy of “enabling the aboriginal of mobility done precocious materials.”

With Katcon’s precocious composite technologies and Tata’s manufacture expertise, Turner said the task volition present “innovative, lightweight solutions that code the evolving needs of the North American automotive market.”

Tata AutoComp Vice Chairman Arvind Goel called the statement “a important milestone,” describing it arsenic “a reverse exemplary compared to our erstwhile alliances” since this represents Tata’s archetypal planetary concern that contributes proprietary technology. In the past, Tata licensed oregon adopted spouse technologies.

Goel pointed retired that Tata’s Composite Division — precocious recognized with the Deming Award for excellence successful Total Quality Management — volition pb connected the exertion beforehand with its patented formulations and in-house capabilities for composite compounds and expanse manufacturing.

The caller Mexico-based task volition trust connected Katcom’s regulatory cognition and its section operations. It is expected to fortify some companies’ manufacturing beingness successful North America and enactment OEMs successful gathering weight-reduction and regulatory targets.

With reports from El Financiero, Milenio and Cluster Industrial