Company / 2023.11.10
 
Company / 2023.11.10

HELLA celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening of its lighting plant in Jiaxing

  • The plant is HELLA's largest lighting plant in the Asia-Pacific region
12/18/2023
12/18/2023

Shanghai, 10 November 2023. HELLA, the automotive supplier operating under the umbrella brand FORVIA, celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening of its lighting plant in Jiaxing on November 10, 2023. The Jiaxing plant was established in 2012 and put into operation in 2013. Since then, the plant has been committed to providing quality headlamps and modules, rear combination lamps, to both international and local automotive manufacturers. With its operational excellence and superior services, it is now HELLA's largest lighting plant in the Asia-Pacific region. Today, the plant has a total area of 56,000 m2 and around 1,905 employees, 13% of whom work in research and development.

Over the past ten years, the plant has experienced tremendous growth in technological strength and production capability. It possesses world-class manufacturing equipment and technology with a high level of automation. For example, the plant has 18 fully automated production assembly lines, more than 100 collaborative robots and an intelligent quality control system. It enables the production of various high-quality and high-performance lighting products. The plant has an annual production capacity of approximately 4 million headlamps, 5 million rear lamps, and 6 million light modules.

"HELLA's lighting plant in Jiaxing has achieved outstanding achievements in the past decade. It has demonstrated a high level of capability in terms of technological R&D, production, and management, which has earned it widespread recognition from its customers, providing a solid foundation for the successful development of HELLA’s lighting business in China," says Didier Keskas, HELLA Executive Vice President of Business Group Lighting APAC and Member of the Lighting Executive Board. "The rapid growth of the plant into a well-managed, technologically advanced benchmarking lighting plant is inseparable from the collective efforts and wisdom of the Jiaxing Team. Thanks to the dedication and hard work of all members of the Jiaxing plant.”

“I am very proud to witness and deeply participate in the construction and vigorous development of the Jiaxing lighting plant. Looking to the future, we will continue to work very hard to earn our customers’ trust by doing the simple things right daily. Our motto is: There is no finish line” says Raman Eswaran, General Manager of HELLA's lighting plant in Jiaxing.

 
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