EAM Mosca invests US$8 million in Nuevo León and opens its first production plant in Latin America

With an investment of US$8 million, EAM Mosca officially inaugurated its new plant in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, a project that marks a historic milestone by becoming the group’s first strapping production site in Mexico and Latin America.

After 23 years operating under a distribution model in the country, the company is evolving to become a local producer. Although it will continue importing European and Asian technology and machinery, the manufacturing of the plastic consumable is now 100% based in Monterrey, optimizing the supply chain for the region’s industrial and agricultural sectors.

The ceremony included the participation of Timo Mosca, Simone Mosca and Alfred Kugler, members of Grupo Mosca’s Board of Directors, who traveled from Germany to support this expansion and highlight Nuevo León’s strategic role within the company’s global manufacturing network.

EAM Mosca consolidates industrial manufacturing in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León

During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Christian Wiethuechter, CEO of EAM-Mosca Corporation, highlighted that the consolidation of this industrial complex required more than 122,000 hours of work among teams from Germany, the United States and Mexico, overcoming major infrastructure challenges, especially the supply of high-capacity energy (kVA).

“It is always impossible until it is done,” Wiethuechter said in his speech about the ambition behind the project. “This was a very large effort; we not only showed that it could be done, but that it could be done well,” he said.

Before taking this definitive step, the company carried out a one-year proof of concept to analyze the Mexican market, which allowed it to increase sales by 20% through the strategic import of the product.

The new plant optimizes the logistics chain and industrial packaging

For his part, José Manuel García, General Director of EAM Mosca México, detailed in an interview the operational impact and future vision of this new era of local manufacturing, which joins the group’s production sites in the United States, Canada, Germany and Malaysia.

García explained that the commercial team moved into the new Santa Catarina facilities on January 5 after more than two decades in a distribution warehouse, paving the way for the formal start of production in March of this year.

With this transition, the company strengthens its offering in the packaging and end-of-line automation market. In addition to supplying high-tech strapping machinery, it also offers stretch film wrapping machines and specialized solutions for the agricultural segment.

“More than selling machines, we sell automation solutions,” he emphasized.

The executive highlighted that the plant will help reduce delivery times and logistics costs in northern Mexico. This will be possible thanks to the efficiency of a new local team, selected after more than 390 interviews and trained through an intensive technical exchange program in the United States.

Special guests at the event included Fritz Eisele, Honorary Consul of Germany in Monterrey; Volker Ortel, President of the Association of Independent Corrugated Converters (AICC); and Sergio Farfán, President of the Mexican Association of Corrugated Cardboard Manufacturers (AMF). At the end of the protocol ceremony, attendees toured the new plant facilities.