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Article Excerpt
Gonzalo Beltran speaks enthusiastically about continuous productivity improvement, quality systems, lean manufacturing, employee empowerment--all the buzzwords of contemporary management practice one expects to hear in the United States. But those concepts have also found a home--and a champion--in Beltran and his Monterrey, Mexico, service center operation, Acerex.
Acerex was formed a decade ago as a 50-50 joint venture between Worthington Steel and Hylsamex, one of Mexico's largest steel producers. Worthington, a major American steel processor, was looking for a way to invest in the burgeoning Mexican market, but was hesitant to tackle a greenfield project in such unfamiliar territory. Hylsa wanted to establish a service center operation, and valued Worthington's expertise. Combining their contributions of land, steel, capital and know-how, the two companies got the distribution startup off the ground in September 1995.
Worthington has a strong record of successful joint ventures, including one with Viking Industries, a minority-owned Ohio steel processor; TWB Company, a partnership with ThyssenKrupp Stahl to produce tailor-welded blanks for the auto industry; Spartan Steel Coating, with Severstal...
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