wix oil filters made in mexico

saw this over on yellow-b

just one of the many locations
http://www.wixfilters.com/About/PlantLocations.aspx

Because of my automated machinery business, I have been in several oil filter plants in the midwest. They are all pretty much automated from start to finish. Sheetmetal rolls on one side of the building, boxed up filters go out the door on the other side. The filters dont really get touched by humans in any way that would hamper assembly quality. I wouldnt worry about the Wix line south of the border.

I had a conversation with an outside rep from a NAPA store less than a week ago. He said people were concerned about Wix production going out of the country after the Wix/Mann-Hummel "merger". He was assured Wix manufacturing would stay in the Carolinas. So much for assurances.

Yellow b ? Oh my ... ur one of those ??!!

Did they close the plant and move it to Mexico? Or do they have more than one plant?

I did some servo tuning on the filter pleating machines at the Fram plant near Dayton, OH. It was 15yrs ago but I thought they had a pretty interesting manufacturing process. Very automated. Holy crap, is that filter material itchy if you get it on your skin! Just like fiberglass home insulation material.

Plant Locations

Allen Plant
2900 Northwest Blvd.
Gastonia, NC 28052
(P.O. Box 1967
Gastonia, NC 28053-1967)
Phone: 704-864-6711
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Dillon Plant
1422 Wix Road
P.O. Box 1267
Dillon, SC 29536
Phone: 843-774-5623
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Dixon Plant
1525 S. Marietta St.
Gastonia, NC 28054
(PO Box 1902
Gastonia, NC 28053-1902)
Phone: 704-869-3700
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MDC (Master Dist. Ctr.)
1551 Mt. Olive Church Rd.
Gastonia, NC 28052
(PO Box 1901
Gastonia, NC 28053-1901)
Phone: 704-869-3900
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Returns Building
1525 Marietta St.
Gastonia, NC 28052
Phone: 704-869-3700
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Ayr Facility
Highway 401 & 97 RR #1
Ayr Ontario Canada NOB1E0
Phone: 519-622-4545


Filtron Facility - Poland
63-800 Gostyn - Poland
ul. Wroclawska 145
Gostyn Poland
Phone: 011-48-65-572-8912


South America Facility - Brazil
Av. Pres. Medice, 939
06268-000 - Osasco - SP
Brazil
Phone: 011-55-11-3602-2837


Venezuela Facility
Zona Ind. Sur,
Av Branger c/c Iribarren Borges
Valencia Edo. Carabobo
Phone: 011-58-241-8396227


WF Manufacturing S. DE R.L. DE C.V. Bldv. Alpha #1655
Parque Industrial Santa Maria
Ramos Arizpe
Coahuila 25900
Mexico C.P.
Phone: 011-52-844-866-2100


Wix - Filtron
Shastliva 1a
Krasiliv 31000
Khmelnicka Oblast
Ukraine
Phone: 011 48 65 5728919


Wix - China
15A1 Times Square
500 Zhangyang Rd
Shanghai
China 200122

The plant in Dillon, SC, is supposed to be closing at some point in the not too distant future so I was told.

hey now i like reading some of those stupid post

Well I bought 3 NAPA gold filters this week, made by Wix. One for my FCA Dart, one for my 5.7 hemi, one for my 383, and they all have made in USA printed on the labels.

To be fair, a 57302 fits some weird combination of a few years of Fomoco, Jag and Land Rover engines. Not exactly a top seller. Might not even be made by Wix.