For five years, Parkway Products’ Plant 2 in Saltillo, Coah., has housed a broad market footprint, which currently includes electrical infrastructure, medical & healthcare devices and telecommunications equipment and automotive related projects.

      The 110,000 square foot plant supports the company’s growing needs for injection molding, compression molding, painting, electronic assembly and other processes for its commercial customers. It currently produces commodity and engineering grade injection molded thermoplastics and compression molded thermosets with assembly capabilities for all items. It averaged 120 employees during the last year, but that number could easily double with expansion. Plans are currently in the works to expand the plant’s current injection thermoplastic and compression thermoset capabilities.

      “Saltillo’s biggest asset is its people and culture,” says a company spokesman. “The Saltillo plant’s local area is a great asset due to the city’s educational focus. Saltillo also has a wealth of experience to pull from, both internally and from other Parkway Enterprise molding plants.”

      Saltillo was chosen because of its talented local workforce and proximity to multiple OEM customers.

      The Saltillo plant accommodates larger scale commercial programs utilizing Parkway’s platform of multiple commercial technologies. ISO 9001:2000 and UL certified, Parkway Saltillo Plant 2 specializes in delivering high-quality components to its diversified, global, commercial customer base, in Mexico and North America. Additionally, its team of experienced materials management professionals supports customer’s needs for global sub-tier supply base management. Parkway’s engineering team can manage tooling and technology transfers to meet customer’s needs for rapid transfer timelines into a low cost manufacturing environment.

            In addition to labor savings, it can achieve cost reductions in freight and JIT inventory management for those customers having their Mexican operation as the final ship point...

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