Monclova
Design and manufacture of iron parts for heavy duty and commercial vehicles in Grey Iron, High Performance Iron (HPI) and Compacted Graphite Iron (CGI).
Plant develops, industrializes and manufactures cylinder heads and cylinder blocks for industrial vehicles.
The Iron Foundry is located in Monclova, Coahuila, 250 Km from the US border. The plant has a total area of 622,200m² with a covered area of 53,122m². It is the second largest plant of the Teksid Group with an installed capacity to produce 120,000 tons of iron castings per year employing almost 1,500 people. Teksid has ISO 14001 and TS 16949 certification and meets the OHSAS 18001 standard.
In 2014, the energy management system of the iron foundry was certified according to ISO 50001 standard.
Main Customers: Cummins, FPT Industrial, Volvo, Mack Trucks.
Mediagallery
Production facilities
| Melting | 1 cupola furnace (20 ton / h) 2 melting induction furnaces (13 tons / h) 3 holding induction furnaces (30 tons each) |
| Casting | Horizontal molding line - HWS (60 molds / h) Flask size 1200 x 1600 x (450+450) mm |
| Core-making | 1 hot-box core blowing machine 18 cold-box core blowing machines |
| Finishing | 3 Shot blasting machines 6 Automatic grinding machines 1 CNC milling machine |
| Quality | Borescope Air decay leak test Dye penetrant leak test Ultrasound UV lamps for crack detection |
Checking facilities
| Dimensional lab | 1 Romer measuring arm (laser scanning and touch measurement) 1 photometry equipment (3D surface scanning ) 2 3D measurement machines (3D software) |
| Metallurgical / Chemical / Metallographic / Sands laboratories | 1 X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer 2 Leco analyzers for Carbon/Sulfur and Oxygen/Nitrogen 1 Optical spectrometer |
Development facilities
| Simulation Software | Magma C+M - Core Simulation Magma - Iron Casting Simulation |
| Engineering Software | Catia Unigraphics NX Top Solid Design AutoCad Top Solid Cam Geomagic Design |
| Scanning Equipment | 3D - MetraSCAN Creaform |
| Control Software | Arcocad 3.3 Geomagic Verify |
Una grande varietà di prodotti
A large variety of products
The Iron Plant develops, industrializes and manufactures more than 20 different castings for cylinder blocks and heads for the heavy vehicle industry. It produces Grey Iron, High Performance Iron (HPI) and Compacted Graphite Iron (CGI).
Teksid Hierro de México
Iron plant
Armando Garza Arizpe – Plant Manager
Libramiento Carlos Salinas de Gortari 2001 Pte.
Cd. Frontera, Coahuila, México
C.P. 25616
Tel. +52 866 649 40 75
E-mail: armando.garza@teksid.com.mx