ArvinMeritor Inc has announced that its San Luis Potosi, Mexico, manufacturing facility now can produce commercial truck wheels. The recently completed expansion of its wheel assembly facility added the production and machinery to produce steel wheels up to 22.5 inches in diameter.
The San Luis Potosi plant has a new heavy-stamping line, an automatic rim-rolling line, machining cells for both discs and rims, and assembly and welding cells for production of larger truck steel wheels. New manufacturing equipment from Italy, Holland, Korea, Denmark, and Germany has been installed.