Global irrigation leader Rivulis today announced the opening of the largest ever micro irrigation production facility in North America to increase production capacity to meet the expanding market while adhering to quality and sustainability measures across its supply chain.

The 160,000-square-foot site in Tijuana, Mexico, was designed with the future in mind to not only meet today’s customer needs, but with production and office space capacity to enable further growth. The facility will produce Rivulis’s leading T-Tape products, known for their high standard performance in water application, flow rate uniformity, clogging resistance and materials strength growers have relied on for nearly four decades.

The new production facility includes advanced film processing technology designed to improve product performance even further and incorporate more recycled content, with the aim to achieve a goal of at least 50 percent recycled material be used in the production of select T-Tapes. Materials used in this facility will eventually flow through a recycling center which will collect used drip tapes from farmers’ fields, with plans to recycle 100 percent of plastic scraps created in the production process.