A.O. Smith will rejoice the corporate’s 150th anniversary in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Thursday, Sept. 19. The festivities will concentrate on A. O. Smith’s wealthy historical past, the workers, its modern transformations and the promising future forward.
The occasion may also rejoice the opening of the positioning’s third plant and an extra constructing growth, which is able to add lots of of recent jobs and produce greater than 140,000 water heating models within the first yr.
The Sept. 19 celebration will embrace meals, festivities and a ribbon reducing ceremony with staff, elected officers and different key stakeholders. The occasion will embrace Claudia Escudero from the Mexican Consulate; Cristina Touché, president of Financial Growth of Ciudad Juárez; Cruz Pérez Cuellar, mayor of Ciudad Juárez, and his personal secretary, Ignacio Carmona Campirano; together with Isela Molina Alcay, president, and Mónica Leticia Luévano García, director, with Canacintra, the Nationwide Chamber of the Transformation Trade.
This system will characteristic Chairman and CEO Kevin Wheeler; Stephen O’Brien, president and normal supervisor of North America Water Heating; Samuel Carver, senior vice chairman of worldwide operations; Keith Auville, vice chairman of North America manufacturing; and Eduardo Gonzalez, Ciudad Juárez operations director. Greater than 1,000 staff are additionally anticipated to attend.
The corporate has had a presence in Mexico since 1984, starting with electrical motor meeting operations in Ciudad Juárez and Ciudad Acuna. In 1986, the corporate started manufacturing water heaters, and in 1995, the corporate withdrew from the automotive trade to concentrate on water heaters.