New regional site to provide support to growing Latin American customer base
(St. Louis, MO: February 03, 2005) FKI Logistex® ( www.fkilogistex.com ), a global leader in integrated material handling solutions, announces the opening of a new regional office in Mexico City, Mexico.
FKI Logistex de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. will provide service and support to the company's growing customer base throughout Mexico and Latin America.With more than 80 palletizing and depalletizing systems installed in Mexico and more than 150 installed in Latin America overall, FKI Logistex serves a variety of industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, converted paper, and consumer goods, as well as general manufacturing and manufacturing distribution.
Customers in the region include Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma™, Coca-Cola® Femsa™, Procter & Gamble®, and Colgate-Palmolive®." FKI Logistex has quickly become the leading supplier of palletizers and end-of-line automation products in Mexico," says George Reyher, sales manager, Latin America, FKI Logistex Manufacturing Systems North America. "Opening this Mexico City office reflects our long-term commitment to provide local engineering and service to our expanding Latin American customer base." FKI Logistex de Mexico will place special emphasis on its low-cost palletizing solutions, allowing the company to take advantage of its remanufacturing capabilities at the FKI Logistex North America plant in Corsicana, Texas.
Reyher will head the Mexico City office, which will offer local sales, marketing, engineering, customer service, and technical support, including system implementation and maintenance." There is a trend in Mexico and across Latin America to move end-of-line activities to automation," says Reyher. "While this work was previously done primarily by hand, we are seeing more and more companies take a more sophisticated approach for a variety of reasons, including the need for higher accuracy, improved line efficiencies, and improved worker safety."" FKI Logistex is recognized as a technology leader and as a primary supplier of material handling equipment in North America," says Martin Clark, director of international operations, FKI Logistex Manufacturing Systems North America.
"FKI Logistex is also known as a premier supplier to major beverage companies worldwide. We want to leverage this success into the Latin American market, in part by supporting our US customer base as they move into the region or as they move to improve their facilities already there." FKI Logistex de Mexico is located at Av. Homero 1343-Piso 3o., Col.
Los Morales, Sec.
Palmas, 11540 Mexico, D.F., Mexico; tel: +52.55.5281.5376; fax: +52.55.5281.8109.
About FKI Logistex North America
FKI Logistex® North America is a leading provider of automated material handling solutions, supplying its customers with an integrated set of leading-edge technologies in high-speed sortation, conveyor systems, carousels, palletizing, paperless pick products, AS/RS, controls, order processing software, RFID implementation, warehouse control systems, and total materials handling automation.FKI Logistex Airport, Post and Parcel integrates high-speed sortation and conveying systems to meet the high-throughput needs of postal and parcel customers, and provides advanced baggage handling, security, and RFID track-and-tracing for airports of all sizes.
FKI Logistex Manufacturing Systems builds automated material handling systems using state-of-the-art technology for storing, picking, ID solutions, palletizing, kitting, packing and shipping that enable manufacturers to process more orders per day at a lower cost.
FKI Logistex Warehouse and Distribution designs high-accuracy, high-speed, high-reliability material handling, sortation, and order fulfillment solutions for warehouses and distribution centers that shrink the supply chain and maximize material handling ROI.With projects that include many of the world's most advanced material handling operations, FKI Logistex is home to the industry's most successful and recognized brands, including Alvey palletizers, Buschman conveyors, Cleco cranes and AS/RS solutions, Crisplant sorters and baggage handling applications, IoSystems supervisory and automated control systems, Mathews conveyors, Real Time Solutions order fulfillment and picking solutions, and White carousels and automated storage solutions.
For sales information, contact FKI Logistex by phone at (877) 935-4564 or by e-mail at [email protected] .