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The Textile Magazine
MAY 2012
Tavex
installs Montex 6500
stenter in Mexican factory
success story
Tavex Corporation, which
recently acquired Mexican denim
manufacturer Acotex, is upgrad-
ing its manufacturing facilities in
Mexico to increase sales to the US
market. It has already installed
a new Monforts Montex 6500
stenter for production of stretched
denim. With its plants in Pue-
bla and Tlaxcala it was a move
designed to increase access to the
US market.
Spain-based Tavex Corporation,
the world’s largest manufacturer
of denim, has installed a new
Monforts Montex 6500 stenter
at its Tlaxcala factory in Mexico
for the purpose of increasing its
production of stretched denim.
Tavex, founded more than 150
years ago, also has denim manu-
facturing plants in Spain, Moroc-
co, Brazil and Argentina.
Mr. Adalberto Avendano,
Tavex’s Manager for Dying and
Finishing at Tlaxcala, says that
the installation of the Montex
was part of the company’s pro-
gramme to upgrade facilities at
the factory, which is devoted to
denim production. “We already
have two Monforts sanforisors
here at Tlaxcala, and there are
Monforts stenters at other plants
within the group. We are there-
fore familiar with the technology
and maintenance support. There
is one stenter here from another
manufacturer, which dates back to
the time when this was an Acotex
factory, but our familiarity with
Monforts meant that we were
happy to invest in a Montex to
Mr. Adalberto Avendano,
Tavex’s Manager for Dying and Finishing at Tlaxcala