Plant
owned factory
Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico[1, 2, 3]. Built for 1 brand on record.
Started 1987 in a converted church, moved 1989 to the Calle Huerta site, fire Feb 1994, rebuilt larger (S438). FujiGen joint venture 'F&F' formed 1990 to develop guitar manufacturing here (S438, paraphrase; Fender later bought out the stake, unsourced beyond a forum). Opening year 1987 per S434, S438, S442. Possibly two plant rows (church site 1987-1989 and Calle Huerta 1989-); kept as one row until an address source exists. No street number or coordinates found.
More: every plant in Mexico, the Fender lineage.
Every date on this page is unverified. It comes from an internal draft and has no source attached yet.
No location is on record for this plant (Mexico), so it is not mapped.
Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.
The operator is not always the brand owner. Follow a company to see every plant it ran.
| Years | Operator | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1987–now | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | unverified[1] |
The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.
| Years | Line | Owner | Parent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2015[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1] | Fender Mexico (Ensenada) | Fender Japan, Ltd. (joint venture of Fender, Kanda Shokai, Yamano Gakki and FujiGen) | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation |
| 2015–now[4, 5, 6, 1] | Fender Mexico (Ensenada) | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | — |
What reaches the plant, in what form, from where, and who supplied it. A plant building for several brands draws on the same supply for all of them. 1 of these has no map point and is listed only.
| Material | Form | From | Supplier | Customs | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material not namedCustoms-record aggregator (S311, re-read 2026-10-15): Tabs Investment Co Ltd to Fender Musical Instruments Corp., seven rows between 2022-01-19 and 2022-07-27, all 'SAWN MAHOGANY' (Fiji: 2022-01-19, 2022-05-11, 2022-07-27 x2; American Samoa: 2022-02-23, 2022-04-27); weights 33,840 to 44,560 kg per row. The importer table gives Fender 20 containers, 377,790 kg, most recent 2022-07-27, ahead of only Taylor Listug (see SL037). No species is stated. The page shows no Fender plant address: the sample bill names Fender Musical Instruments Corp 'c/o Legaspy and Sons, 2290 Enrico Fermi Drive, Suite 16, San Diego CA 92154' (a customs-broker address; notify party R.L. Jones Custom House Broker, San Diego), while the importer table lists Long Beach. The receiving plant is NOT established: Ensenada (P071) is assumed because the consignee is a San Diego border-area broker, and Corona (P004) is the other candidate. The snapshot ends in 2022, so later shipments are not excluded. Proposed grade: secondary. | sawn lumber | Suva (supplier location), Fiji and American Samoa | Tabs Investment Co Ltd (Suva, Fiji) | — | 2022–2023 | unverified[9] |
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.
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