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Grupo Antolin around the world SPAIN INDIA Grupo Antolin (Headquarters) Grupo Antolin - Chennai Grupo Antolin – Alava Grupo Antolin - Pune Grupo Antolin – Ara Grupo Antolin - Pune (Design Center) Grupo Antolin – Aragusa Krishna Grupo Antolin Grupo Antolin – Ardasa IRAN Grupo Antolin – Autotrim (Technological Licence Agreement) Grupo Antolin – Dapsa Grupo Antolin – Eurotrim JAPAN Grupo Antolin – Ingeniería Grupo Antolin - Japan (TCO) Grupo Antolin – Linara MEXICO Grupo Antolin – Magnesio Grupo Antolin - Saltillo Grupo Antolin – Martorell Grupo Antolin - Silao Grupo Antolin – Navarra International Door Systems Grupo Antolin – Palencia Mexican Door Company Grupo Antolin – PGA Grupo Antolin – Plasbur MOROCCO Grupo Antolin – RyA Antolin - Tanger Grupo Antolin – Vigo POLAND ARGENTINA Silesia Plastic IRAUTO PORTUGAL BRAZIL Grupo Antolin - Lusitânia Antolin - Sudamerica (TCO) RUSSIA Intertrim Grupo Antolin - St Petersburg Iramec Trimtec SLOVAKIA Grupo Antolin - Bratislava CHINA Slovakian Door Company Grupo Antolin - Shanghai (TCO) SOUTH AFRICA Antolin Guangzhou Autoparts Grupo Antolin - South Africa Antolin Shanghai Autoparts ChongQing Antolin Toupu Overhead Systems SOUTH KOREA Ningbo Antolin Huaxiang Auto Parts Grupo Antolin - Korea (TCO) Dong Won Tech CZECH REPUBLIC Grupo Antolin - Bohemia THAILAND Grupo Antolin - Ostrava (Technological Licence Agreement) Grupo Antolin - Turnov TURKEY FRANCE Ototrim Grupo Antolin - France (TCO) UNITED KINGDOM Grupo Antolin - Cambrai Grupo Antolin - UK (TCO) Grupo Antolin - HFR Grupo Antolin - Kent Grupo Antolin - IGA Grupo Antolin - Leamington Grupo Antolin - Ingénierie Siegès Grupo Antolin - Jarny UNITED STATES Grupo Antolin - Loire Grupo Antolin - North America (TCO) Grupo Antolin - Transport Grupo Antolin - Fairfax Grupo Antolin - Vosges Grupo Antolin - Illinois Grupo Antolin - Kentucky GERMANY Grupo Antolin - Louisiana Grupo Antolin - Deutschland (TCO) Grupo Antolin - Michigan Grupo Antolin - Autoform Grupo Antolin - Warren Grupo Antolin - Logistik Deutschland Grupo Antolin - Wayne (TCO). Technical Commercial Office News Summer 2009 · nº 55 Grupo Antolin New Organization Special Issue on Quality in every field Grupo Antolin Saltillo A year of combined efforts Ligth & Green project We think in green NEWS is published by Grupo Antolin Grupo Antolin is a multinational at the cutting edge of design and production of components for car interiors for the automobile industry. Present in 22 countries with 85 plants and 20 technical commercial offices and close to 10.000 employees. This publication is available for the employees in the GA's intranet EDITORIAl OFFICE Grupo Antolin EDITORIAl DIRECTOR Marketing GA. PRINTED By Coiman Marketing Department · [email protected] C/ Marqués de Portugalete, 16 Carretera Madrid-Irún, km. 244,8 E 28027 MADRID - SPAIN DESIGN Germán Delgado E 09007 BURGOS - SPAIN Tel. 34 91 742 12 03 Tel. 34 947 47 77 00 · [email protected] www.grupoantolin.com PhOTOGRAPhy Rafa Sáiz and luis Mena D. legal: M-18594-2006 Territory Europe - South Territory America Africa - 6,851 employees* Asia - Pacific 1,376 employees * Territory North America 1,384 employees * * Nr of employees by territory as per 1 st of April 2009 contents page 33 corp. responsibility Light & Green project page 4 cover story Grupo Antolin is betting on the development of New Organization greener and lighter products page 22 the photo Brand new organization for our company Committed to the future page 36 report The first Training School of Grupo Antolin in Brazil page 8 special Mater Special issue on Quality: page 24 designing the future in MANAGEMENT, in Interior for the senses VALIDATION and in PLANTS Quality in every field: from conception to client delivery page 16 protagonists Launch of VW Golf in A new tool for innovation Spain It will be assembled in 3 and 5 doors in the page 38 health plants of Pamplona (Spain), Uitenhage (South It is critical to improve the sensorial perception "The senses", the touch Africa) and Pune (India) in the interior of the cars page 40 the history corner page 18 plants page 26 in brief Bentley Grupo Antolin SALTILLO News in Brief page 20 corp. responsibility page 32 “Green IT” Recognition Optimization of information and communication Grupo Antolin is grateful for the efforts of its technologies in order to guarantee the sustaina - employees year after year with its proposed im - bility of the processes, the energy efficiency and provements are helping to improve quality and the optimization of the maintenance satisfy our customers News Grupo Antolin 2 Summer 2009 Editorial Grupo Antolin understands Quality as a way of industrial life, as a cul - ture which motivates all the people who integrate the company in order to get a well-done job, and this is dif - ficult to be put into words. The quality management in Grupo José Antolin Toledano Antolin goes beyond the tradition - Chairman al approach to emerge into a key part of the company, covering all in first person fields, from the direct customers to the end users. Discover the keys within these pages. Do you want to know our plants bet - ter? We are entering in this issue in The global economic crisis we experienced in 2008 far exceeded any possible two factories of the North American prediction that could have been made at the beginning of the year, and the territory: Grupo Antolin Michigan in fact is that nobody could foresee either the depth or the scope of the crisis that the USA, that advocates the team was about to hit us. The volatility of the financial markets and the drop in con - work and the concept of in line cus - sumer confidence really left their mark on the financial year. tomers as its key for success, and Looking at the figures for 2008, the results achieved by Grupo Antolin up until Grupo Antolin Saltillo in Mexico, our the third quarter of the year were similar to those for the same period in 2007. first plastic injection plant in this ter - The drop was really concentrated in the last quarter as a result of the huge ritory and that has generated more downturn in the market and demand during that period. With regard to re - that 100 new jobs. Get to know gions, we should highlight the significant growth in the Africa-Asia-Pacific re - them! gion thanks to product diversification in those areas, and the fact that our We decided to travel a little more to - clients maintained their production volumes. ward the south to Brazil in order to In 2008, the Group embarked on a series of determined actions to respond to attend the inauguration of the first the crisis and guarantee the viability of our industrial projects. These include school for the employees’ children. both economic and technological measures, and we are therefore now im - Here, their students will learn the mersed in a commitment to sustainability, prioritizing innovative technologies techniques and specific productive that lead to the reduced weight of components, recyclable materials and the use processes from the automotive world of materials of natural origin, all of which are being demanded by the market. first hand and they will be the source of new employees for our plants. Despite the difficult circumstances of the past year, which will almost certainly continue in the short term, there are reasons to be optimistic and to continue After the successful launch of the Re - believing in a bright future for our company. We unquestionably hold the trump nault Mégane last year, the new Volk - cards to make this future possible: knowledge, diversification of both countries swagen Polo 3rd generation arrives and clients, competitive prices and a solid network of suppliers. Grupo Antolin in Spain next September. This is a key will need to overcome the triple challenge of holding on to its technological vehicle for our Group and it aims to leadership, positioning itself at the highest echelons of efficiency and quality, become a reference within its seg - and putting a decided emphasis on increasing profitability. ment. Do you want to know it? Our ability to continue growing is something that can only be achieved by the And our corporate colours, blue endeavours of each and every person working for the Group. People with ini - and yellow, are becoming green, be - tiative and talent, ready to share their knowledge with others and bring added cause being eco-friendly has be - value to the communities in which we operate. come the identity of the company. From the ecological management of Once again, we are reiterating our commitment to continue working with the information systems, to the incor - same enthusiasm as ever, in the conviction that following a period of major ad - poration of materials from natural justments in which only the strong will survive, there will come a period in sources in our products, passing which a new framework of relations in our sector will become established, through the efforts of reforesta - guaranteeing more durable and harmonious client-supplier relations in the tion. Are you joining our cause? w whole supply chain. w News Grupo Antolin Summer 2009 3 Jacinto Reyna cover story Gerente de Grupo Antolin-Saltillo New Organization We are firmly convinced to have developed a new organization to face up more efficiently the important challenges in our current automotive world José Manuel Temiño News Grupo Antolin 4 Summer 2009 The goals of the new organization are: - To reinforce the individual responsibility - To reinforce the efficiency of all processes , and especially the productive ones With this words, our CEO, José Ma - nuel Temiño, started his speech about - To assure the satisfaction of the client the new organization, last 12 th of May. We summarize it below. - A robust project development Historically, in Grupo Antolin, we have launched reorga - - Simplicity in the definition , set up and nizations every 4 years, taking place the last one in 2005. control of the new organization With this new reorganization we pretend to revitalize our action, overcoming inefficiencies and mainly crea - - To facilitate the growth and ting three Business Units, fully accountable for their re - sults worldwide and their sustainability in the future.