Our customers have come to expect high-quality products and quick turnaround times. Operations at Hitchiner's  manufacturing site in Mexico is no exception. The Santiago Tianguistenco excels at providing quality front-end casting services.

 

Hitchiner S.A. de C.V., 
Santiago Tianguistenco, Mexico

The Santiago Tianguistenco facility is located about 30 miles southwest of Mexico City and is the company's first offshore production facility. Since 1988, this facility has provided customers with the engineering quality that is the hallmark of Hitchiner stateside production. The modern facility offers customers 67,000 feet of manufacturing space, the latest technological advances with robotics, conveyorization and automation, as well as Hitchiner's revolutionary countergravity casting process. Facilities for tooling, layout, non-destructive testing and heat treat are provided on-site, primarily producing components in the high-volume automotive market.

The division is IATF 16949, ISO14001, AS 9100 and CTPAT certified and utilizes Six Sigma methods, lean manufacturing and synchronous manufacturing principles throughout the operation to ensure quality parts and to continually improve control of the process. Installed capacity allows the casting of 2000 molds/day with the pouring of 54 metric tons of alloy/day.