Chassis Brakes International Opens Mexico Plant

Eindhoven, Netherlands-based Chassis Brakes International (CBI) is opening a plant in Queretaro, Mexico, to supply brake calipers and rotors to two unnamed carmakers.

The 100,000-sq-ft facility—the company’s first in North America—is due to begin production in April. Output capacity is expected to reach 8,500 units per day in 2020.

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CBI says it plans to double the size of the Queretaro plant within six years and is evaluating additional manufacturing sites to support forecasted sales growth in North America.

In addition to calipers and rotors, CBI produces disc and drum brakes, and electro-mechanical parking brakes. The company lists PSA, Toyota, Ford, Daimler, Renault, Fiat Chrysler and BMW among its top customers.

CBI’s origins date to the 1930s, when it was part of the former Bendix Corp. The company has been owned by U.S. private equity firm KPS Capital Partners LP since it was acquired from Robert Bosch GmbH in 2012.​​