The company’s new 9,000sq ft design and development center for lighting technology in Guadalajara, is expected to open in March 2012.
Hella also is scheduled to complete a 15,000sqft expansion of its manufacturing complex next June for the production of automotive reflectors for customers based throughout the Americas.
The new development center will allow the company to work more closely with its customers in Mexico and elsewhere throughout the NAFTA region.
Hella design teams at the development center will work directly with customers to define product requirements; to develop product designs and design options; to manage product testing, validation and reliability and to assist in new-product manufacturing launches.
Initial programs at the development center will include work on simple and high-complexity head lamps, rear lamps and signal-function lamps for customers in the NAFTA region as well as elsewhere in South America.
The modern, high-technology reflector production unit in the Guadalajara will increase the plant capacity.
