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GF Divisions Open New Facility in Mexico

GF Machining Solutions and GF Piping Systems open a joint direct sales and service headquarters in Nuevo Leon.

Posted: November 8, 2019

With a state-of-the-art showroom and expansive inventory space, the new 75,000 sq ft facility will house a full sales and service support staff that will ensure high responsiveness and application expertise. It will also serve as a strategically located central distribution center for Mexico.

The GF Mexico Headquarters groundbreaking ceremony. (l-r) Ricardo Escobedo, the Kronos Industrial Park civil engineer; Phil Hauser,GF Machining Solutions, the president head of market region North & Central America; Horacio Peña, GF Machining Solutions, the Managing director Mexico; Mark Sanhamel, GF Machining Solutions, the director of operations; Alicia Plancarte, the Kronos Industrial Park Business commercial manager; Brian Villa, GF Machining Solutions, sales administration; Luz Llamas, GF Machining Solutions, the controller Mexico; Francisco Juarez, GF Machining Solutions, the sales manager; and Omar Serna, Latitude Construction Company, the general manager.

GF Machining Solutions (Lincolnshire, IL) and GF Piping Systems (Irvine, CA ) are further enhancing their direct sales and service support to customers in Mexico with the opening of a new Nuevo Leon joint headquarters. The companies recently conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for the 75,000 sq ft facility. With a state-of-the-art showroom and expansive inventory space, the new headquarters will house a full sales and service support staff that will ensure high responsiveness and application expertise. To help streamline the sales process and shorten delivery times for customers, the facility will also serve as a strategically located central distribution center for Mexico.

“Our expanded presence in Mexico will further reinforce the existing knowledge and understanding Mexican manufacturers have of GF’s broad range of high-quality and reliable manufacturing and piping technologies,” said Philipp Hauser, the president/head of market region North and Central America for GF Machining. “Those customers will also benefit from the new facility, especially in terms of fast and proactive sales and applications service and support.”

“For our existing and future customers in Mexico and Latin America, the new facility will allow for increased stock capacity for same day shipping in most instances and ample space for training all our customers – whether OEM, engineering firm or distributor,” said Jose Luis Rodriguez, the director general/country manager, Georg Fischer S.A de C.V. “These customers will also gain a better understanding of all the piping solutions we offer, and the new facility’s larger space will also provide plenty of room for customized valve assembly as well as prefabricated and specialty pipes to fulfill customer projects from piping to control and measurement components for any industry where water and chemicals need transported and treated.”

The new Headquarters will be located at Av. Industrias 110, Parque Industrial PIMSA Oriente, Apodaca, Nuevo Leon CP 66603 Mexico.

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