Texas
Keats Southwest
The Keats companies are manufacturers of precision metal stampings, wire forms, and assemblies to the electronics, medical, consumer goods, and automotive industries. Originally founded as Keats Manufacturing in 1958 in Chicago, the company expanded to El Paso in 1994 to open their Keats Southwest facility. NAFTA enabled the company to be competitive in the Mexican market during the manufacturing boom.
Keats Southwest credits duty-free movement of goods and the simplified framework of export documentation under NAFTA with helping to grow the company’s annual revenue from $1 million to $10 million. The company is forecasting export sales of over $8 million in 2014.
- Nine-fold revenue increase attributed to FTAs
- Forecasting over $8 million in sales for 2014
“We went from 6 employees and 6 production machines to 50 employees and 50 machines running on 3 shifts.”
Matt Keats, President
