ASK Chemicals Group, based in Hilden, near Düsseldorf (Germany), has just successfully launched its new manufacturing plant in El Carmen, Nuevo León, with an investment of around 27 million dollars (560 million pesos) that generated 90 direct jobs.

The company seeks to strengthen its position in the North American automotive foundry market and will seek to increase its production in 2022, which has started with lines of non-bake and cold box resins and will be followed by other product lines in the coming months, such as refractory paints and EXACTCAST exothermic sleeves.

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The plant will supply various clients in the Mexican market, including the supply chain of an automotive manufacturer and its suppliers.

Bob Gage, Executive Vice President (North America), said he was proud of the team in Mexico as opening a plant during the pandemic was extremely difficult and challenging.

The plant is located on a 50,000 m2 plot of land and has a production area of around 13,000 m2.

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The location includes nine storage tanks of 38 cubic meters, 3 vertical cylinders for 10,000 gallons each, eight storage tanks of 114 cubic meters and vertical cylinders for 30,000 gallons, as well as 2 chemical reactors and 2 mixing tanks of 5 meters. cubic.

The plant has a capacity of more than 30,000 metric tons of resin and the capacity to produce 10,000 metric tons of paint and 5 million pieces of exothermic liners per year.

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