About Walbro

WHO ARE WALBRO?
  • Walbro is a global market leader in engine management and fuel systems for the Outdoor Power Equipment, Recreational, Marine, and Personal Transportation markets, and a leading supplier of high pressure aluminum die casting to various industries.

  • They manufactures carburetors, electronic fuel injection systems, ignition systems, fuel tanks, fuel pumps, valves and fuel storage and distribution systems, and offers value-added machining, electronics and assembly capabilities.

  • Walbro is a global organization, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, with over 2300 employees worldwide. The company has ISO certified manufacturing and engineering facilities in the United States, Japan, Mexico, Thailand and China.
BENEFITS

QUALITY POLICY


  • Walbro will produce the highest quality products in the industries they serve and maintain compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements. They will do this through designs that perform to requirements and can be built, inspected and tested, coupled with statistically sound processes where variation is continually reduced. Accomplishment of this will lead to improved customer satisfaction, competitiveness, and increased market share.

CORE VALUES


  • Focus on the Customer
  • Develop People
  • Ensure Competitiveness
  • Foster Clear & Consistent Communications with no Surprises
  • Assure Fairness & Integrity in all Actions
  • Empower People with Directed Autonomy
  • Embrace Change

VISION


  • Walbro enable machines that make life better!

MISSION STATEMENT


  • To be the industry leader in the global small engine market by anticipating customer needs and delivering innovative solutions to a world that demands a cleaner environment.
HISTORY

1950


  • Walbro founded in Michigan.

1972


  • Walbro formed public company.
  • Established Kakuda City, Japan plant.

1977


  • Established Maquiladora plant in Nogales, Mexico.

1989


  • 100,000,000 cumulative carburetors shipped worldwide.

1995


  • Established Tianjin China plant.

1999


  • TI Group acquired Walbro Corp.
  • Walbro Engine Management established.

2000


  • 50,000,000 cumulative ignitions shipped worldwide.
  • Walbro headquarters established in Tucson, Arizona.

2001


  • Opened Los Mochis Mexico plant.

2005


  • Began production shift from Japan to Thailand & China.
  • Installed 1st blow molding machine in Michigan.

2007


  • An affiliate of Sun Capital acquired Walbro Engine Management.

2008


  • 350,000,000 cumulative carburetors shipped worldwide.
  • Consolidated Mexico operations in Los Mochis.
  • Installed 2nd blow molding machine in Michigan.

2010


  • 1,000,000 cumulative multilayer tanks shipped worldwide.
  • Installed 3rd blow molding machine In Michigan.

2011


  • Opened new tank facility in Thailand.
  • Installed 4th blow molding machine in Michigan.
  • Installed 1st blow molding machine in Thailand.

2012


  • 2,000,000 cumulative multilayer tanks shipped worldwide.
  • 400,000,000 cumulative carburetors shipped worldwide.
  • Carlyle Japan acquired Walbro Engine Management.

2014


  • Installed 5th blow molding machine in Michigan.
  • 100,000,000 cumulative ignitions shipped worldwide.

2015


  • Installed 6th blow molding machine in Michigan.