Camesa was founded in 1957. Currently is has four production facilities:Cuautitlan and Vallejo, located in Mexico City metropolitan area, Rosenberg in Texas, U.S., and Lima, Peru. This division designs, manufactures, and commercializes mechanical wire rope, electromechanical cable, and high carbon steel-wire rope.

       Camesa's wire rope is used in several industries: mining, fishing, oil, and electric power transmission. It is also employed in mobile and tower cranes, power shovels and drags, traveling derricks, and elevators. The electromechanical cable, has special electrical and mechanical properties and it is mainly used to register environmental and geological conditions in drilling and preparing oil wells. The wire rope is produced at the Vallejo and Rosenberg plants.

       As a high carbon steel wire and rope manufacturer, Camesa has strong domestic market leader position producing the largest share of national output. Internationally, Camesa is one of the ten largest high carbon steel wire and rope producers worldwide, and exporting to North, Central, and South America, export sales account for 65% of total sales.

       Camesa's high carbon steel wire not only is utilized in manufacturing its own steel ropes, but also has several applications, such as pre-stressed wire and strand for construction, mattresses and furniture inner springs, springs for mechanical and industrial use, railroad ties, bronzed wire for tire beads, and more. All these products are manufactured at the Cuautitlan Plant.