The Hitec Group's range of products and services goes in many directions. Composed of business divisions that complement each other, there is Hass Factory Outlet to provide machining centers, or Hitec CNC to offer others that demand greater productivity and precision (such as Swiss and Japanese lathes); likewise for plastic and rubber injection, they have the AIG Plastics division, or to provide the tools, consumables and peripherals that support the machining center divisions, they have Hitec Tools. Finally, for sheet metal, the group has Nexttec Machinery.
In this last division, Nexttec Machinery, Grupo Hitec will place special emphasis during the upcoming FABTECH Mexico, where it will present, among many other innovations, cutting and penetration EDM machinery of enormous precision.
For FABTECH, the group has a well-defined strategy, explains Nexttec Machinery's product manager, Alejandro Ortiz Müller: It will propose, in addition to its already traditional representation of the Asian brand Yangli (which has been making die presses, bending machines, laser cutting equipment and feeders since 1966), the Turkish manufacturer Dener Makina, with its offer of fiber laser and plasma cutting machinery, servo-electric, hydraulic and hybrid sheet metal bending machines, and shears; in addition to the solutions of American metalworkers like Piranha, with its bending machines, shears, plasma cutting beds, and another brand originating in China and specializing in laser cutting, Senfeng Laser.
"We want to have more market share and germinate the seed in the sheet metal processing industry in Mexico, to be increasingly present in the top of mind of customers and be leaders in the introduction of innovative equipment," says Alejandro Ortiz, who emphasizes another of the virtues of the company, the Hitec Institute, a platform from where they provide training for proper knowledge and learning how the equipment works and to meet all applications of the same.
"It is better to have people increasingly better prepared for automation systems that eliminate the bias for human intervention and shorten the error within the production of customers," says Ortiz Müller, according to one of the trends that the group has observed in recent times: the demand for qualified personnel and technicians to work with increasingly automated machinery.
"We have observed that some customers are looking for minimal human intervention with the machines, which allows us to bring automation solutions to the table, with equipment for integrated solutions," says the manager of Nexttec Machinery.
Along with that he observes that there is greater demand for production as a result of the trade agreement, the T-MEC, which demands more integration and regionalization of the production chain. "More and more customers are looking for a greater number of parts to be manufactured here in Mexico, and that requires better manufacturing solutions."
Regionalization of the production chain is an important and irreversible movement. According to Alejandro Ortiz, today's customers want, above all, higher productivity. At the same time, the lowest possible operating and logistics costs and, thirdly, quality and support. "Which we can offer as a group," says the division manager of this diversified company proudly.
Grupo Hitec's headquarters are located in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico, and it has branches in strategic industrial nodes such as Monterrey, Querétaro and Tijuana, in addition to providing service beyond the borders with Hass Factory Outlet in Central America and in Andean countries such as Colombia and Ecuador.