Martin Castañeda Flores is a 51-year-old industrial chemical engineer with over 30 years of experience in operations, purchasing, quality control, and health and safety. He has held plant superintendent and operations manager positions at several manufacturing companies, where he achieved improvements in productivity, quality processes, inventory reduction, and safety. Currently he is the plant superintendent at Vesuvius Mexico, where he has helped reorganize plants and warehouses, improve productivity, reduce inventories, and go over 6 years without a lost-time injury.