Regal Beloit Corporation a new manufacturing plant in McAllen, Texas

McAllen Economic Development Corporation 

McAllen, Texas – Regal Beloit Corporation held today the official ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new 125,000square feet facility. The McAllen, Texas plant joins a 54 other international manufacturing and service/distributionoperations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and Mexico. The purchase of the newlyrenovated facility producing metal components for rotors and stators will create 150 jobs.

The company CEO and executives, along with City of McAllen, Hidalgo County, and State of Texas officials joined inthe factory’s ribbon-cutting event on Thursday, April 7, 2011.

“We are extremely pleased to be here in McAllen, our journey started a couple of years ago and encompass abouta 10 million dollars investment, a lot of hours of preparation and working with McAllen Economic DevelopmentCorporation, the City of McAllen, the County, and the State of Texas, all that work was worthwhile when we lookat where we are headed here.” said Henry Knueppel, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Regal Beloit Corporation.“We are the last North American owned motor company of any substance so what we do in the world matters.“What our employees will do here will impact a huge percentage of our products, the quality and on-time deliverywill make a big difference in the success of the company.”

Regal Beloit is a Fortune 1000 leading global manufacturer of a broad range of products, from heavy industry tohigh technology. Their manufacturing plants produce ...

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