Fagor Arrasate opens service-oriented plant in Chicago

Fagor Arrasate, specialist in the design, manufacture and supply of cutting and forming lines, has presented at Fabtech 2019 in Chicago its project to build a new service plant in the Chicago area. Although the exact location has not been revealed, it is a clear example of Fagor Arrasate's commitment to the US market. In this regard, at its booths it presented examples of the most significant projects carried out so far for the automotive industry and the country's steel and aluminum producers.

The new Fagor Arrasate service plant will be operational by the end of 2020. Fagor’s greenfield project will be in a new building equipped with a bridge crane. The facility will also include offices and will complement the current Fagor Arrasate commercial and service structure in the country, coordinated from the company's U.S. headquarters in Willowbrook, Illinois. The project seeks to strengthen the after-sales service, engineering, and spare parts inventory while strengthening Fagor’s relationship with customers in a market in which Fagor Arrasate has carried out numerous projects in recent years and whose demand is booming.

FAGOR ARRASATE has the broadest product portfolio in the metalforming sector and provides its customers with a deep knowledge of the sector as a result of its more than 60 years of experience. It is a founding member of the MONDRAGON Corporation, one of the largest European industrial corporations, made up of 70,000 professionals.

The Group has 17 research centers, 6 production plants and 3 Service Hubs distributed internationally to guarantee global supply and after-sales service. In addition, Fagor Arrasate has a production plant in China and a dozen centers located internationally to guarantee direct service and relations with its customers, particularly in the USA, Germany, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and China. Its portfolio includes leading solutions in mechanical and hydraulic presses, complete stamping systems, transfer presses, robotic press lines, press hardening, forging; cut-to-length, slitting, combined and multiblanking cutting lines; band process lines such as pickling or tension levellers; special systems for forming metal parts, band profiling, dies and much more.