The world's top 20 automotive parts and components are settled in Wuhan

On October 23, the new East Tracade transmission factory officially established in China. In the future, it will achieve an annual output of 1 million transmissions. At present, the world’s top 20 parts and components companies have already invested in Wuhan. . The person in charge of the Investment Promotion Bureau of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone revealed that as the pace of Wuhan's annual production of automobiles has advanced to 3 million vehicles, the pace of follow-up by the world’s component giants has also accelerated. The foundation of the new factory indicates that Wuhan's auto industry chain is improving.

Among the 10 parts and components companies in the world, there are both U.S.-based Tianhe in production safety systems, and Valeo, the world's first car lamp design and manufacturing company. Cummins, an engine manufacturer, specializes in the supply of automotive electronic components and system technologies. Delphi, Inc., USA, covers a wide range of automotive electronics, safety systems, engines, and self-controlled devices. Its technical content and value-added products have been upgraded. This year, more than 200 parts and components companies in Wuhan Development Zone have achieved output value of approximately 312 for the first 9 months. 100 million yuan.

According to the person in charge of the Wuhan Development Zone Investment Promotion Bureau, “Building a factory nearby can save costs.” In recent years, with the acceleration of the production scale of Wuhan auto OEMs, the categories of parts and components have begun to increase, and the introduction of core components has gradually Break the question. "Especially Wuhan's overall planning of 3 million car production has enabled the world's spare parts companies to smell the 'big cake' aroma."

The world's largest car company, the company's Valeo lighting company, is regarded as the world's first giant to enter the Wuhan Development Zone. It was established in 1995 and is fully synchronized with its supplier, Dragon. With the investment of three plants in Shenlong in China, Valeo's scale has also been expanded three times. The newly built workshop is already the country's largest monomer lamp base. As early as the first expansion in 2003, Valeo set up a lighting technology Asian technology center in Seoul. Many research and development achievements are shared globally.

Similar to the speed of Valeo lights, Cummins, a world-renowned engine company, since the establishment of the Wuhan Development Zone in 2005, has carried out the second phase of Cummins East Asia R&D center expansion in less than six years, becoming one of 17 Cummins global R&D centers. The second largest R&D center supports the development of all Cummins engines from 2.8 to 19 liters.

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East-style executive vice president of Trak Stephen Dufan:

Chinese gearbox will go global

On October 23, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant of the East Traker Transmission, Executive Vice President Stephen Dufan spoke in fluent Chinese. This blonde foreigner is very confident in talking about the future plan in Wuhan. "The Chinese transmission will go global."

As early as 2006, as the world's largest manufacturer of automotive gearboxes, GETRAK entered China and established a joint venture with Jiangling Motors. The joint venture's two-thirds shares are owned by the Germans and 1/3 are owned by the Jiangling Group. Du Fan said that this time, unlike Dongfeng, "We and Dongfeng share 50% to 50%."

Du Yi was honest. Before he came to Wuhan, he did not participate in the negotiation process between Dongfeng and GETRAK. Why did he choose to cooperate with Dongfeng? It should be his position as the leader of the Chinese market. "He believes that choosing Dongfeng will not be wrong. "We will not consider further cooperation with other Chinese companies for the time being. ”

The company that co-operated with Jiangling produced Getrak's existing products from Germany. In Wuhan, it is not the introduction of existing products, but the production of a new product developed internationally for the first time: a low-torque 6DCT150 dual-clutch automatic transmission. Du Fan said that this is a brand-new product developed for the first time in the world. It has designed six forward gears, one reverse gear, and wet clutches. Its fuel consumption is lower than other gearboxes, and its weight is less than 60 kilograms. It has a good value for money and is more crucial. Yes, this product, Dongfeng and GETRAK, jointly own intellectual property rights and has exclusive rights in the domestic market.

“The customers we face are not only the Chinese auto factories but also the international auto factories. In the future, the Chinese transmission will go to the world.”