Manufacturing facilities also varied from country to
country. Brastemp, Whirlpool’s Brazilian partner, built its
plant of precast concrete to address the problems of high
humidity. In India, however, the construction crew cast the
concrete, allowed it to cure, and then using chain, block,
and tackle, five or six men raised each three-ton slab into
place. Instead of using one building, Mexican operations
used two, one housing the flexible assembly lines and
stamping operations, and an adjacent facility housing the
injection molding and extrusion processes.