MONTERREY, Mexico -- Mexican company Katcon has now gone global, following its July 31st acquisition of Delphi's catalytic converter and exhaust system global business. This last phase consists in the acquisition of the manufacturing facilities located in Shanghai, China, and Gurgaon, India.

These two plants join other Katcon facilities located in Mexico (2), Venezuela, and those recently acquired in Poland, South Africa, and Australia.

In addition to these eight manufacturing facilities, Katcon Global recently acquired two sales, technology research and development centers located in Michigan and Luxembourg. These tech centers have a group of highly qualified engineers and design, test and validation equipment with top-of-the-line technology.

Katcon becomes a global company with manufacturing and research operations in eight countries in the five continents. Apart from the countries where the company operates, its products reach Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Belgium, France, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Spain and Thailand. Katcon Global supplies more than 60 client facilities of the most important vehicle manufacturers with applications ranging from ultra-compact cars to medium and heavy duty, gasoline and diesel and all different types of emission levels.

Katcon Global will have a lean, decentralized, and interactive business model, globally linked with the most advanced telecommunications systems, creating collaborative teams, eliminating the necessity of corporate offices and using open platforms located in the Web and accessible to executives worldwide. Such collaborative teams are now integrated through a videoconference system that will allow continuous and low-cost communication to achieve a fast post-acquisition integration.

Through this advanced structure and tools, Katcon Global will compete in the tough global automotive market, based in agility, flexibility, low fixed costs and high manufacturing efficiency, rapidly developing new low-cost ideas in its engineering centers, with an open research policy.

The company said this business model will provide a competitive advantage compared to a heavy and expensive structure that predominates in the industry today.