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Firm has agents throughout the country, serving the extrusion industry

Guill dies and crossheads for plastic, rubber and other material extrusions are now being sold by Bernal Industrial throughout Mexico. With more than 50 years of experience, Guill is a recognized technology leader in the design and manufacture of extrusion tooling for various applications. These include medical tubing, multi-lumen, multi-layer, profile products, rubber, plastics, wire & cable and fiber optic sheathing.

Bernal Industrial operates as a consultative engineering representative agency, distributor and service provider for its lines. Daniel Bernal is the manager and director of Bernal Industrial. Besides its main office in El Paso, Texas, Bernal Industrial has Mexican offices in Baja California, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Mexico City and Queretaro. Bernal also sells products for Nordson PPS (Xaloy, BKG, EDI), American Roller, Scantech, Regloplas, Getcha, Matsui and Pillar Tech, among others.

The company has been in business for 18 years and has 15 employees. During that time, Bernal Industrial has become a major force in Mexico by aligning themselves with industry leaders in the plastics and rubber processing market to provide cutting-edge technology to all the major markets in Mexico, including auto, aero, medical and appliance. Their team comprises industry professionals who have hands-on experience and can provide highly technical application assistance for the products that they bring to the market. Bernal Industrial currently contacts all plastic and elastomer processors in Mexico, including the affiliates of major U.S. and international companies.

Bernal will be promoting the complete line of Guill products. Asked about this partnership, Daniel Bernal commented, “We are looking forward to working with Guill and finding many new business opportunities for them throughout Mexico.”

For more information, please contact:

Thomas Baldock
Guill Tool & Engineering
10 Pike Street
West Warwick , RI 02893
(401) 823-7600
www.guill.com
tbaldock@guill.com

Major German supplier of finished length tube and solid bar processing equipment opens its doors in Monterrey/Apodaca to serve the Mexican market with sales, service, spare parts and engineering

Rattunde Corporation President Rick Stadler (front, left), Rattunde Mexico Director Javier Lopez (center, left), Director of Technical Services Renato Luna (center, right) and the team from Rattunde’s new facility celebrate the ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the company’s Mexican headquarters in Monterrey/Apodaca in the state of Nuevo Leon.Rattunde Corporation, the North American arm of a German-based manufacturer of finished length tube and solid bar production systems, has been operating from a single location in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area for over nine years. The company’s considerable success in the market resulted in the recent grand opening of a new facility in the Monterrey, Mexico area to serve its growing customer base in that country.

Rattunde Corporation President Richard Stadler and VP Alec Banish, joined by Rattunde Mexico Director Javier Lopez and his team, proudly opened the doors to the new facility in Monterrey/Apodaca on February 4, 2016.

This new 8,073 square-foot (750 square-meter) tech center houses the Mexican sales and service operations, application engineering and spare parts inventory. Future plans include a machine onsite in 2017 for demonstration and training. This decision to open a tech center in Mexico was reached, after an analysis of the current and anticipated business needs of the company in-country, according to Rick Stadler. “Our growth in America and in Mexico has been rapid, though not unexpected, due to the unique nature of our equipment and the reliability and performance characteristics of our machines. With a solid install base and growing demand for local service in Mexico, this move simply made a lot of sense to us.”   Stadler further noted that solid growth of the company into diverse markets throughout North America made the new facility a logical choice. In addition, he said the new machine sales generated directly from Mexico-based management and procurement personnel also contributed to the decision.

This 8,073 square-foot (750 square-meter) facility will be a full tech center with application engineering, sales, service and spare parts inventory. Plans for a demo machine are in the works for 2017.

Concurrent with this new tech center, Rattunde has expanded its workforce in Mexico with technical service, sales and administrative personnel. As Stadler explains, “Whenever a machinery company grows quickly, there’s an ever-present need for more customer service and technical assistance personnel. Of course, new people must be found and trained.” Stadler went on to explain that rapid growth also means working smarter. Rather than waiting for a customer to reach out to Rattunde in a time of need, the company is proactively sending technicians to its customers and performing comprehensive machine inspections, identifying and correcting small issues before they become large ones.

For Mexico, two Rattunde service technicians are now in-country, one operating from the new tech center in Monterrey/Apodaca and another based in Guadalajara.

In the end, Stadler says, “This new facility solidifies our Mexican presence in the high-volume tube and solid bar production markets such as auto, appliance and aero, thus benefiting our current and future customers in many ways. We’re selling to a large number of companies in various markets, in-country, so it was a logical move for us to be here, in many ways.”

Other attendees at this grand opening included Rattunde personnel, sales representatives from the North American network, honored guests from the parent company in Germany, plus customers, prospective business partners and suppliers to the company.

For more information on this development, please contact:

RATTUNDE CORPORATION
5080 Beltway Drive SE
Caledonia, MI 49316
Phone: 616-940-3340
Fax: 616-940-2771
Web: www.rattunde-corp.com
Email: company@rattunde-corp.com
Attention: Richard Stadler or Alec Banish

OR

RATTUNDE MEXICO
Parque Industrial Kalos Encarnacion
Seccion 9 Edificio 1
#132 Ignacio Sepulveda
Apodaca, Neuvo Leon 66633
Phone: +52 81 10860406
Director: Javier Lopez
j.lopez@rattunde-corp.com