HE Steering Systems GmbH has been founded
CRH Group and Willi Elbe Group have established a joint venture company, based in Pfedelbach.
Solingen – Today the shareholders have signed the joint venture contract for HE Steering Systems GmbH. The new company is a 50:50 joint venture between the companies CRH Group and Willi Elbe Group. The headquarters of HE Steering Systems is Pfedelbach in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
The purpose of the joint company is the development, production and distribution of steering systems for the automotive industry. The newly established company intensifies and improves the mutual beneficial relationship between the two shareholders, which have already been working closely together since many years. “Mid-size companies have to pool their resources to survive in the highly competitive global market”, states Robert Houston, Managing Director of the CRH Group. Customers will benefit from having only one contact dealing with their requirements.
Willi Elbe Group based in Tamm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, was founded in 1951 and is specialised in steering technology for motor vehicles. The company has a workforce of about 500 employees and owns production plants in Germany (3), Switzerland and Norway.
C. ROB. HAMMERSTEIN Group (CRH) headquartered in Solingen, Germany, is the specialist for the development and production of high-quality complete seat structures, seat adjustment systems, steering column adjusters and variable interior concepts. Well known car manufacturers and System-suppliers count on CRH products. The company employs approx. 3.000 people across 13 locations in Germany, USA, Mexico, Hungary, Romania, South Africa, Japan and China.
CRH establishes joint venture with Japanese car seat supplier
CRH Group and Fuji Kiko Co., Ltd, Japan have established a joint venture called "Fuji Kiko Hammerstein Automotive GmbH“, headquartered in Solingen.
Solingen – On 12th April 2010 the foundation contract for the joint company Fuji Kiko Hammerstein Automotive GmbH (abreviation: FUHA) was signed by the top management of both companies. The head office of the new company is located in Solingen, Germany (full address: Merscheider Strasse 167, 42699 Solingen, Germany).
Since April 2009 the companies have already been collaborating in North Amercia. The foundation of the joint company will intensified the cooperation between CRH and Fuji Kiko and will extend it to the European market.
The joint company develops and identifies new opportunities with the automotive manufacturers and JIT suppliers by presenting and proposing new products and technologies which will be a result of synergy effects of CRH and Fuji Kiko. The CRH Group especially benefits from gaining better access to the Japanese automotive market.
Fuji Kiko Co., Ltd headquartered in Washizu, Shizuoka, Japan, is supplying seat components, power train components, steering columns and automatic transmission shifters to major Japanese automotive manufacturers and JIT suppliers. The company employs almost 1.200 people and has got 4 production locations in Japan and 14 overseas manufacturing footprints, 3 of them in Europe.
C. ROB. HAMMERSTEIN Group (CRH) headquartered in Solingen, Germany, is the specialist for the development and production of high-quality complete seat structures, seat adjustment systems, steering column adjusters and variable interior concepts. Well known car manufacturers and System-suppliers count on CRH products. The company employs approx. 3.000 people across 13 locations in Germany, USA, Mexico, Hungary, Romania, South Africa, Japan and China.
CRH wins „Daimler Supplier Award 2009“
Company from Solingen, Germany belongs to Daimler’s worldwide best suppliers
Picture: Daimler AG
Solingen/Stuttgart – The Germany based CRH Group has been awarded the „Daimler Supplier Award 2009“ in the category „Mercedes-Benz Cars and Vans – Interior“ on the occasion of the second „Daimler Key Supplier Meetings“ in Stuttgart. Daimler AG recognised its best suppliers for their contributions with this Supplier Award. “We are among the worldwide top suppliers of Daimler AG, this is an outstanding success for our company“, stated Robert Houston, Managing Director of the CRH Group.
The Award is based on a worldwide standardised rating system which comprises issues such as project management performance, engineering and delivery quality, costs, logistics as well as technology and innovation. Furthermore the cooperation between Daimler and its suppliers is evaluated in the areas of fairness, reliability and trust. Frank Deiss, Head of Purchasing Procurement Mercedes-Benz Cars and Vans, in his speech especially praised the innovation of the modular seat and CRH’s engineering competence und reliability.
„ This is an outstanding success for our company. We are very proud of gaining this award and we thank all our employees involved for their great efforts“said Robert Houston, who received the prize from Frank Deiss and board member Dr. Wolfgang Bernhardt, responsible for Manufacturing and Procurement Mercedes-Benz Cars & Mercedes-Benz Vans.
On behalf of Daimler’s Board of Management, whose members all attended the conference, Dr. Dieter Zetzsche, thanked the company’s suppliers for their contributions to jointly master what arguably was the most challenging year the global automotive industry has had to face in more than half a century. “For us this award is an incentive to navigate through these uncertain times and to emerge from them stronger”, commented Robert Houston.
C. ROB. HAMMERSTEIN Group (CRH) with its headquarters in Solingen, Germany, is the specialist for the development and production of high-quality complete seat structures, seat adjustment systems, steering column adjusters and variable interior concepts. Well known car manufacturers and System-suppliers count on CRH products. The company employs approx. 3.000 people across 13 locations in Germany, USA, Mexico, Hungary, Romania, South Africa, Japan and China.