【Editors note】: As Hubei’s largest automobile production and processing area, Wuhan has made great efforts in developing automotive industrial chain. Dozens of auto parts gaints gather here, including half of world’s top 20 from the US, France, Germany, UK, Japan, Spain, Italy, Canada, South Korea, Sweden, etc.
1.Cummins Inc.
Cummins Inc. is an American Fortune 500 corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products. Cummins also services engines and related equipment, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, United States, Cummins sells in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 600 company-owned and independent distributors and approximately 6,000 dealers. Cummins reported net income of $1.65 billion on sales of $19.2 billion in 2014.
It came to Wuhan in 2006, and completed the second largest R&D center in 2011.
2. Lear Corporation
Lear Corporation headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, United States of America, is a Fortune 500 company, engaged in the business of manufacturing and distribution of automotive seating and electrical distribution systems. As of 2014, the company had 221 manufacturing facilities in 36 countries around the globe, staffed by 113,400 employees. They recorded an aggregate global sales of US$ 16.2 billion in 2013. Lear has two major divisions: the seating business segment and the electrical business segment.
Related company in Wuhan: Wuhan LEAR-DFM Auto Electric Co., Ltd.
3. Faurecia
Headquartered in Nanterre, France, Faurecia employs 5,500 engineers and technicians. The company operates over 320 production sites and 30 R&D centres in 34 countries worldwide, with 460 patents filed in 2012. Faurecia is the 6th largest international automotive parts manufacturer in the world; in 2013 it was #1 for vehicle interiors and emission control technology. One in four automobiles is equipped by Faurecia. It designs and manufactures seats, exhaust systems, interior systems (dashboards, centre consoles, door panels, acoustic modules) exterior modules (front ends, exterior systems and shock absorption systems) and decorative aspects of a vehicle (aluminium, wood).
Faurecias customers include the Volkswagen group, PSA Peugeot Citro?n, Renault-Nissan, Ford, General Motors, BMW, Daimler, Fiat/Chrysler, Toyota and Hyundai-Kia among others.
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Related company in Wuhan: Wuhan Faurecia Tongda Exhaust System Co., Ltd.
4. Valeo
Valeo is a multinational automotive supplier based in France, providing a wide range of products to auto manufacturers and after-markets. It is a member of the CAC 40 share index. At the end of 2013, the Group Valeo has a presence in 29 countries, employing 74 800 people at 124 production sites, 16 research centers, 35 development centers and 12 distribution platforms. The companys sales in China have doubled every four years, and the new plant opened in 2013 in Yangtze Delta Region, Nanjing, makes China the leading market for Valeo.
Related News: Valeo’s new plant in Wuhan put into operation
5. GKN
GKN plc is a British multinational automotive and aerospace components company headquartered in Redditch, Worcestershire. The company was formerly known as Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds and can trace its origins back to 1759 and the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, PLC, major British group of engineering companies. The group has a variety of manufacturing interests, with an emphasis on the production of components for the automotive field. Headquarters are in Warley, Eng. The company was established in 1900 as Guest, Keen and Company by the merger of two older manufacturing companies. It assumed the name Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, Ltd., in 1902 with the acquisition of a screw- and wire-manufacturing business founded by John Sutton Nettlefold. With steady growth into an increasing number of product areas, the company expanded into a worldwide conglomerate.
6. GETRAG International GmbH
Getrag (written by the company as GETRAG) is the worlds largest supplier of transmission systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The company was founded on 1 May 1935, in Ludwigsburg, Germany, by Hermann Hagenmeyer. Headquartered in Untergruppenbach in Germany, Getrag manufactures and develops passenger car transmission products and solutions for the important automotive markets Europe, Asia and North America with 24 locations and about 12,500 employees worldwide. In 2011, the company had a turnover of three billion Euros.The company has three joint ventures: Getrag Ford Transmissions[1] headquartered in Cologne with Ford Motor Company, Getrag (Jiangxi) Transmission Co. Ltd. with Jiangling Motors Corporation., Ltd. and Dongfeng Getrag Transmission with Dongfeng Motor Corporation.
Related company in Wuhan: Dongfeng GETRAG Transmission Co., Ltd (DGT)
7.Yorozu
Yorozu was founded in 1948 in Japan. Since then, the company has devoted day in and day out to tireless improvement as a manufacturer of automotive parts with a focus on suspensions. In July 2010, Wuhan Yorozu Bao Mit Automotive Co., Ltd. (W-YBM) is established in Hubei, China, as a joint venture with Baosteel Metal Co., Ltd. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Currently a consolidated subsidiary).
Related company in Wuhan: Wuhan Yorozu Bao Mit Automotive Co., Ltd
8. Hutchinson
Hutchinson was founded in France in 1843 by an American engineer. Since 1974, the company is a subsidiary of the TOTAL Group, a Global Fortune top 20 company, dealing with oil and chemicals business, with more than 140 Billion Euros sales level. Over the years, Hutchinson developed and internationalized to become the world leader in the industrial rubber business, with today about 3 Billion Euros sales and employing more than 27000 people worldwide. Its main activity is to manufacture and commercialize rubber products to Global OEMs in aerospace, railway, car industry but also consumer goods, from its 96 plants located in 18 countries. In 1995, Hutchinson started to invest in China and developed four units in Hong-Kong, Wuhan, and recently Suzhou. Hutchinson Wuhan is developing 4 activities : Low Pressure parts, High Pressure parts, Body Sealing parts and Transmission belts. Hutchinson Wuhan is planning to employ more than 500 people by the end of 2008 producing high quality new products for both local and international markets.
Related company in Wuhan: Hutchinson (Wuhan) Automotive Rubber Products Co.,Ltd
9. Kautex
Kautex - a division of Textron (TXT) - is headquarted in Bonn, Germany, and rated among the TOP 100 Automotive Suppliers worldwide. Kautex is a leading global supplier of plastic fuel systems, selective catalytic reduction systems (SCR) and clear vision systems and sensor cleaning solutions. Furthermore, the company produces and supplies camshafts and industrial packaging. Kautex operates in 17 countries with 6,500 employees.
It had a plant settled in Wuhan in November 2015.
10. POSCO
POSCO (formerly Pohang Iron and Steel Company) is a multinational steel-making company headquartered in Pohang, South Korea. It had an output of 39.1 million tonnes of crude steel in 2011, making it the worlds fourth-largest steelmaker by this measure.[2] In 2010, it was the worlds largest steel manufacturing company by market value. Also, in 2012, it was named as the 146th worlds largest corporations by the Fortune global 500.
It had a plant settled in Wuhan in October 2015.
