Today, Bridgestone Firestone produces more than 8,000 tires per day destined to the United States for use in cars and light trucks and has about 1,000 employees.
Seton, a leather car seat cover manufacturer that supplies Audi, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, GM, Porsche, and VW among others, has been operating in Costa Rica since July 2002. Two years later, it opened a world-wide logistics facility to handle all its purchasing and delivery requirements.
CML Innovative Technology a company of Sylvania Lighting Industries (SLI) manufactures interior illumination parts and components such as interior lights, mirror lamps, indicator paneling lights. This company is focus in the innovation, product development and services to automakers. They started operations in Costa Rica 1995 and supply tier 1 companies and car makers as well.
Companies such as Bourns /Trimpot, ITT Industries, Wai Semicon a Wetherill Group associate, Camtronics are providing electronic components such as specialty switches, starters and voltage regulators at competitive prices and outstanding quality and delivery.
In addition to tires, lighting components and car seat covers; tubes and connectors for motors are manufactured by Hutchings Automotive.Also air bag sensors, wiper contact and emission sensors are also supplied from Costa Rica by Microtechnologies, a micro precision component manufacturer with a facility in Costa Rica since 2001. Its President, Michael Tucci last year said:
"Over the past years, our activities in Costa Rica have gone from a small satellite facility to the primary manufacturing center for our global operations. the keys to our success rest largely in the talented workforce available, as well as a proactive government and a good logistical position for our needs."
