Anyone been to Mexicali lately and wondered what the new building is for? None Gov product going to Mexicali with the rest going elsewhere. HON wants to sell the land the site sits on. GSI has been working it for some time. Trying to get rid of HON owned sites. Early 2021. They expect loyalty and then want to furlough me. No thanks.
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I'm hearing the tanner project (which is what their calling the transition plan) is on hold because Torrance & Mexicali engineers are incapable of figuring anything out. Thank God for horrible MOT's that the business never invested in fixing...
The wind down has already begun, all commercial is going to Mexicali and all military is being spread around the country. The site will be fully closed with 30 months, June 30, 2023. Good luck if your a supplier. Mexicali is using all of their own supply base and new local suppliers will get military work.
All work from the Torrance site will be going to Mexicali including military as most of it is built there. All ECU's will be built in Mexicali then shipped to Tempi Az. to be final inspected and have its nameplate installed stating MADE IN AMERICA. We were told not to say anything to our customers as it is a breech of contract.
Been saying that for years just like Rocky Mount and there're both still open
Only thing that will save Torrance is more capital to automate to compete on cost with Mexicali. Lots of good work with welding automation and new CNC machines during DMAIC period years. Kuddos to the dedicated Torrance managers and staff at the time. Most are all gone now or laid off, as they pi—d off too many PHX people by being successful. Those efforts slowed down the transition to Mexicali otherwise the site would have been closed already. Only further innovation by those remaining will slows down closure.
It will not take 10 years. They don't care about accuracy. Push and push, get it done, work with it. No details about closing Torrance but I wouldn't bet against it. Torrance is high priced real estate, high tax, high wage. Move the work to Mexicali, move remaining engineers to Phoenix or Olathe. Seems to be the Hon plan.
Tulsa R & O is being closed much of the work going to Mexicali.
Torrence closer offical public infomation release will be fall 2021
High operating cost, can make great money on selling, California politics and regulations. Surprised it hasn’t happened sooner.
Not sure if this pandemic will help keep sites or make HON want to move quicker on reducing footprint. Should be interesting.
Would not surprise me, but would be YEARS off in the future. It took 10 years to move the LA plant to Torrance when we had employees that actual had a brain. There are test facilities here that are not simple to use and or train others.
I believe it. Very high costs to do business there. You can thank your local government for that.