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Tenowo, Inc. and Tenowo GmbH, Hoftex Group AG businesses and manufacturers of engineered nonwovens, announce a new addition to the company, Tenowo de Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V. As a first step it involves the establishment of a sales office and warehouse in the city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

San Luis Potosí, Mexico – The new entity is jointly owned by Tenowo Inc. in the USA and Tenowo GmbH in Germany. It was established in response to increased demand for Tenowo’s automotive products in the Mexican market and will house materials manufactured both in the United States and Germany.

“This location provides Tenowo, Inc. with a footprint in a fast-growing geographic part of our market and is hopefully the first step towards further expansion. San Luis Potosí is a thriving city in the heart of the Bajio region of Mexico and has access to four major ports. In addition, it is within a few hours of the major automotive manufacturing hubs in Mexico.” stated Chris Peart, President and CEO of Tenowo, Inc. “It is the ideal location for our needs,” he added.

Dr. Harald Stini, Global Managing Director for Tenowo commented, “Tenowo continues to have strong growth prospects worldwide and this is part of our efforts to capitalize on new opportunities. We hope that this venture will enable us to support our global customers with locations in Mexico and gain new regional customers.”

  The new cutting room will expand the German car parts maker’s airbag cutting capacity in Europe. This latest collaboration between Lectra and its longtime customer builds on a mutual relationship of trust reaching back to previous ZF TRW projects in Portugal, Poland, Mexico and China. Having recently devised a worldwide airbag growth strategy, the company turned once more to Lectra to help reinforce the capacity of its European manufacturing base.
Early in 2016, Lectra unveiled the revolutionary FocusQuantum range, leading to certification of the integrated airbag cutting solution by the customer’s cutting room managers across the globe. Later that year, ZF TRW also certified Lectra’s FocusQuantum Suite cutting preparation software. The stringent process carried out by ZF TRW bore out the productivity, performance and quality of the state-of-the-art airbag cutting solution and advanced software system.

“By evaluating the solution in accordance with established practices, we were able to confirm that FocusQuantum will help satisfy the projected output of our newest facility,” notes Victor Seoane, head of Global Manufacturing Engineering for Inflatable Restraint Systems, ZF TRW. "We were impressed by the innovation that Lectra’s FocusQuantum offers, enabling us to significantly reduce our cutting cost per bag."
“With this new collaboration, Lectra demonstrates yet again the added value built into the integrated design of FocusQuantum,” states Céline Choussy Bedouet, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Lectra. "The acquisition of two FocusQuantum will enable ZF TRW to meet short-term productivity objectives while also laying the foundation for future growth.”