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North American Locations
Navistar Diesel of Alabama, LLC — Huntsville Engine Plant
The Huntsville, Alabama plant is Navistar’s newest engine facility and the producer of a new generation of technologically advanced MaxxForce clean-diesel engines for Navistar, Ford Motor Company and other original equipment manufacturers. The plant was designed to incorporate the most modern machine tool technologies and latest manufacturing techniques in the production of Navistar’s industry leading products. MaxxForce Navistar Diesel Power engines are designed to meet the EPA’s stringent emissions standards and exceed customer’s needs for performance, reliability, durability and fuel efficiency.
The Huntsville plant has a non-traditional work environment where tasks are effectively accomplished through Business Teams. These teams, which include machining, assembly, manufacturing services, financial services and human resources, are self-contained units. They have the information, resources and support necessary to excel in the production of world-class products. Individuals are empowered to take part in decision-making, take initiative and contribute to continuous improvement within their team.
With nearly 700,000 sq. ft. of production and office space, the Huntsville Plant produces Navistar’s line of vee engines, the MaxxForce 5, MaxxForce 7 and the 6.4-liter Power Stroke Diesel engine for Ford Motor Company. These engines provide customers with performance and drivability, exceptional quietness in low noise, vibration and harshness as well as economy and serviceability.
The Hunstville Plant is ISO/TS 16949 certified.
Indianapolis Engine Plant
The Indianapolis Engine Plant produced its first engine on February 23, 1938 and one-millionth ten years later on May 3, 1948. To date, it has produced more than nine million engines, which re-enforces the success of its business philosophy: Meet our customer’s expectations better than the competition by building products that provide the best performance, quality, reliability, service and response to customer needs and the best value.
Recognized for its use of leading edge processes to achieve excellence in manufacturing, the Indianapolis plant was selected as one of “America’s Best Plants” by Industry Week Magazine.
Today, the Indianapolis Engine Plant, spanning 1.1 million sq. ft., manufactures and assembles the 6.4-liter Power Stroke Diesel for Ford Motor Company. It also manufactures and machines crankshafts and connecting rods for the Huntsville plant. The Power Stroke Diesel engine is an industry-leading engine, providing customers with performance and drivability, exceptional quietness in low noise, vibration and harshness as well as economy and serviceability.
The Indianapolis Engine Plant is ISO/TS 16949 and QS 2000 certified.
Melrose Park Engine Plant & Technical Center
The Melrose Park Engine Plant and Technical Center was originally constructed in 1941 and produced 75,000 engines during World War II for B-24 Liberator Bombers. In 1946, Navistar Harvester, now Navistar Truck and Engine Corporation, purchased the plant for its construction equipment and engine businesses and began engineering, manufacturing and assembling a variety of diesel engines and construction equipment products throughout the next four decades. In 1975, it introduced its wet-sleeved DT 466, setting a new standard for medium duty diesels with its long life to overhaul and in-chassis rebuildability. A few years later, it introduced the 6.9-liter V-8 diesel for Navistar trucks and Ford heavy pickup trucks and vans.
Today, the Melrose Park Plant produces the MaxxForce DT (the legendary DT 466), MaxxForce 9 and MaxxForce 10 on its 1.5 million sq. ft. manufacturing floor. These engines, built on Navistar’s proven I-6 platform, are known for their legendary reliability, wide range of vocational capabilities, durability and industry-leading residual value which add up to high-value and low cost of ownership for owners of Class 6-7 trucks and buses.
The Melrose Park Engine Plant is ISO/TS 16949 certified and the Technical Center is ISO 9001 and QS 9000 certified.
South American Locations
Córdoba Engine Plant
In the region of Córdoba, the plant in Jesus Maria produces the HS 2.5L engine to power Land Rover vehicles in England, and provides the machining of cylinder heads, camshafts and timing cases for NGD 3.0E engines.
São Paulo Engine Plant and Technology Center
In Santo Amaro, in the outskirts of the capital of the State of São Paulo, the company produces the high-speed engine families of the MWM Sprint and Acteon electronic lines, apart from the Series 10 and Series 229 engines. The Center of Technology and Development where most of MWM Navistar new products and engine applications see the light, also operates in these premises.
Canoas Engine Plant
MWM Navistar plant in southern Brazil is the most modern and sophisticated in Latin America. In additon to the NGD 3.0E model - the first engine in Brazil to comply with both European (Euro IV) and American (EPA 2007) standards on gaseous emissions - of recent launching, the unit produces engines for farming and industrial applications, apart from the HS 2.8L for vehicular applications. In Rio Grande do Sul, the company also assembles cylinder heads for six-cylinder engines of the NGD family, subsequently exported to the USA.