Industrias Guidi's 60th Anniversary

INDUSTRIAS GUIDI
“We did not know Toyota was going to give us
a purchase order for the new model but what
we did know was that to be able to obtain it we
had to bet on the development of the company.
That bet was building the Zarate plant. The
plant was built as an opportunity for IG.”
Fernando Castro (Strategic Planning Director)
Fabian Novara (Commercial Director) gives
the figures of that opportunity: “We knew that
90.000 Hilux units would become 140.000 in
the next generation. The decision of growing
was already taken, we were going to respond
to that increase in demand with the new
plant and being near our “star” client. It was
an important step towards our production
process because with IGZ we reduced a three
hour truck journey between the original plant
(IGB) and the Toyota plant". On the other hand,
Carolina Castro (HR & 5S Director) explains
the difficulties of this transition: “In a medium
size family enterprise the resources are limited
and you have to rely on everybody’s effort to
be able to succeed in an ambitious objective
as we had come up with. The knowledge we
acquired during that period was amazing”.
Carlos Pan (Industrial Director) completes the
perspective of this bold decision; “The plant in
Zarate allowed us to strengthen ourselves in a
decade full of challenges. IG became important
within the automotive industry suppliers as a
consequence of our conviction to go for what
we had planned”.
At the beginning of the 2000's IG was already
actively committed to transform and transcend
to reach excellence.
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