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Winter 2009 · nº 56
GRUPO ANTOLIN
We interview the
Chief Operations
Officer
Electric vehicles
The environmental friendly alternative
OTOTRIM
Our bet in Turkey
Adapting to our clients
Grupo Antolin-Cambrai
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.
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contents
page 20 the photo
* Nr of employees by territory as on the 31st of August 2009
page 4
cover story
Interview with Carlos
Araujo Maté
Our Chief Operations Officer tells us about
his professional career as well as the future
plans for our company
page 8
page 12
protagonists
Grupo Antolin-Cambrai
This plant is placed in the north of France
in an industrial area. Since 2002 it is a
supplier of Renault
plants
XV Anniversary of the
Newsletter
A look to the history of our company through
pictures
page 22
designing the future
Electric Vehicles
Zero emissions, the future is already here.
The new vehicles will be more environmental
friendly
OTOTRIM
A multi-product & multi-client plant opens its
doors to us in Turkey
page 25
in brief
News in Brief
Art Competition
page 15
report
Plastic Convention
page 16
special
Knowledge Management
page 10
corp. responsibility
Innoversia
Training as the basis for the development in
the emerging countries
News Grupo Antolin
2 · Winter 2009
Let´s get to know in details this strategic
line and the tools to share the knowledge in
Grupo Antolin
page 18
health
Influenza A
page 36
the history corner
Audi Centenary
The four rings brand has celebrated its 100th
birthday in 2009. The efficiency of its models
is a characteristic of Audi since its foundation
Editorial
A new year starts, it is the time of reflection and planning. In 2009, Audi
is celebrating its centenary and it is
our birthday as well. It has been 15
years since the first number of our
Newsletter was published. Would
you like to see how much we have
changed?
Additionally, in this number we
would like to know better our Chief
Operations Officer, Carlos Araujo
Maté, and show you his opinion after
his first months with us.
Grupo Antolin has been characterized by pursuing customers´ satisfaction and thanks to that, we will continue being awarded by them. The
last prizes achieved from Volkswagen, General Motors, Nissan and
Ford are a good example of this.
Keep on working like this!
A lot of us are familiarized with the
Knowledge Management model that
Grupo Antolin is setting up. As a very
important part of our organization
we offer you more details about its
establishment.
There are still so many of our plants
to visit. We invite you to discover
Ototrim (in Turkey) and Grupo Antolin-Cambrai (in France). Two plants,
two countries, two cultures and the
same aim - adapt to the changing
automotive world and exceed with
success the challenges launched by
our clients.
Electric vehicles are a part of this
change in our market. Is the mass
production of them possible in a
short period of time? Which are the
opportunities for Grupo Antolin? We
provide you some clues to answer
these questions and the other ones
as well.
But more stories are still waiting in
this Newsletter. Keep on reading and
find them. w
José Antolin Toledano
Chairman
in first person
The year 2009 is just about to finish. The crisis seems to
have passed its peak in a year that has caused difficulties
in all areas, especially in the automotive world. But the
storm begins to ease up. The changes that have occurred
in the market demand us to adapt to a new scenario in order to remain competitive; both financial and technological changes will require an additional effort to continue
growing.
This effort has been supported by the renewal of a syndicated loan guaranteed by 40 banks, through a successful transaction thanks to the unanimous support from the
Financial Community in an environment characterized by
the crisis. A fact that will enable us to face the investments needed with the necessary financial strength to
meet our strategic plan.
Now is the time to join forces and maintain our position
as the market leaders. We have the capacity and the work
force necessary to carry it out. QUALITY, KNOWLEDGE
and EFFFICIENCY are the key values that we must follow
to achieve our progress and to secure our future.
Therefore, we face a year in which the commitment of all
of us is more important than ever to meet the demands
of an extra effort to ensure the efficiency of our costs and
the productivity improvement.
Finally, I would like to send you a message of confidence,
enthusiasm and hope for the coming year. Thank you for
your fighting spirit and my best wishes for all of us, we all
are part of this great company, Grupo Antolin.
Merry Christmas to all! w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 3
cover story
Interview with our
Chief Operations
Officer
On the 12th of May, the new organization of our company was launched,
with the creation of the Chief Operations Officer position. Carlos Araujo
Maté was appointed to that position
News Grupo Antolin
4 · Winter 2009
What is your vision after these six months of
management?
After six months we have made this interview to know at first hand his opinion
about the company and the future plans
Could you tell us about your professional experience?
My first job as an engineer was at the Spanish Society of
the Tudor Accumulator, a Spanish multinational company
which manufactured batteries, and at the end of the 70’s
considered that the electric vehicles could be used in some
special applications and decided to prove it by carrying out
the transformation of an urban bus into an electrical one,
as well as a dozen mail delivery vans and a garbage truck
of 20 Tm. Performing that transformation and proving its
usefulness for the service was my first job. When I look at
it from my present point of view I can say that I had the
chance of being a pioneer, although at that time it was too
early for this project.
I spent seven more years at Tudor and I was the manager
of a company in the Group when I had the opportunity to
come back to Burgos as the managing director of Ansa
Lemförder, which then was part of a partnership between
the incipient Grupo Antolin and ZF Lemförder. I spent the
first five years, until 1994, being part of ZF Lemförder on
one side and of Grupo Antolin on the other side, and reporting to the Antolin brothers. When they sold their part
in the company in 1994 I stayed in ZF Ansa Lemförder
for another ten years, the last five years, first as a corporate responsible of ZF Lemförder for Europe, two business
lines, components and axis, and then as the world responsible for the components line for suspension and steering.
At that moment, the business turnover under my responsibility exceeded 1,000 million Euros, with operations in
Europe, including Turkey, Slovakia, Germany, France, Spain
and the United Kingdom, Nafta, the United States and
Mexico, Brazil, India, China and Korea. Altogether, more
than 20 plants all over the world.
These months have been determined by the strong crisis in
our sector, obviously the same one in which I was in ZF, and
by the need to keep a strong pressure in all our operations,
started in the crisis committees of the Group from the end
of 2008, in order to adjust to the situation of the market
as much as possible. In a special way, this situation became
critical when two of our main customers in the USA, GM
and Chrysler filed for Chapter 11. In these months, I have
visited 31 plants of the group in three continents, and I have
had to get to know the Group and our situation quickly.
The measures taken from the end of 2008 have shown that
the effort and sacrifice made by us all have allowed us, on
the one hand, to negotiate again our syndicated loan with
acceptable conditions and, on the other hand, to reduce
significantly our balance point, thus containing the strong
losses and getting ready for certain recovery of the market
such as the one arisen in the last two months. My vision is
that the taken measures were the most appropriate ones
and that we still have plenty of things to do, some of them
not too easy, which the new organization must be able to
undertake in the best conditions and about which I feel optimistic regarding the results for our future.
How is the management of a company devoted
to the manufacture of parts for the interior of
the vehicles different from your former company, orientated to mechanics?
The truth is that I must point out two considerations when
speaking about the differences in management: one related to
the differences between the chassis and the interior of the vehicle businesses, and the other one concerning the differences
between a German and a Spanish multinational company.
To start with the easiest point, the differences between chassis
and interior have surprised me in many ways. The main ones:
the design, in the sense of “style”, which is a subject which
does not exist in the chassis. The diversity: concerning the chassis, a “Golf” is practically a technical solution; concerning the
interior, it implies a great diversity with a huge variety of models
which are subject to frequent restyling. The chassis is orientated
to “function” and the interior to design and the customer’s perception of the senses: they are totally different. This fact conditions the relationship with the customer and the amount of
engineering needed to support the diversity and the complexity,
and to keep a permanent relationship with the customer.
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 5
“
Innovation must be, clearly, part of the
The differences concerning their different business culture
are also outstanding and perhaps more difficult to be summarised. The Group is above all a very young company, due
to its business course and the age of most of its staff. ZF will
soon be 100 years old. The German style gives more importance to the managing systems, to the strategic planning, to
the organization of the activities in exchange for, sometimes,
losing freshness and accuracy in the decision processes. The
orientation to the financial results, growing with profits, with
special attention to profitability over the capital invested in
the business, is a constant feature always present in ZF.
The Group keeps an outstanding liveliness in the decision
processes and a huge customer orientation. The internationality and industrial and technical implementation or
the Group are amazing and doubtlessly one of our challenges as an organization.
Preserving the best features of each culture in the management is one of my personal challenges.
Which values will you protect in your management?
I personally believe in people’s commitment, participation
and integration. A special mention to the managers and
the leadership expected from us. I believe in communication and team work as the basic principles of a management which must insist on continuous improvement and
on the creation of value for customers and share holders,
and which allows for the professional and personal development of the company staff.
The ability to innovate in the management styles, in the products and services we offer to our customers, in the process
of transformation, will be the key of our development in the
future and also of the differentiation from our competitors.
“
In a time in which everybody is
speaking about “sustainability”, we
must be sure that our values and our
”
commitment with our environment are
the best supports for our future
News Grupo Antolin
6 · Winter 2009
”
genetic code of a company leader in
the automotive sector
On which pillars must the Group’s strategy lay
and which change processes will Grupo Antolin
have to undertake in order to continue being
leaders?
After six months in the company and at the doors of starting a broad debate about our strategy to back up the
business plan in 2010, I do not see myself totally ready to
speak about the pillars of the strategy. Nonetheless, I will
take the risk of bringing forward some ideas.
The market, which must be the engine of our strategy, is
facing some drastic crossroads: changes in the consumers’
patterns, social concern and pressure regarding the environmental impact, growth in the markets of Asia and Eastern
Europe with an overbooking in the traditional markets, new
segments of vehicles for the mature markets, hybrids, electric
cars, very low consumption, personalization of the vehicles
and so on, and customers in the emerging countries which
for the first time join the consumer habits with strong pressure on the prices, new competitors and so on. Our environment will keep on being restrictive with the credit and probably, the automotive sector in the mature markets will not be
among the most interesting sectors for the banking sector.
The Group will have to face all this, which will translate into
risks, but also into opportunities that we must face adapting our strategy in order to take the best profits from our
location, from our ability to innovate in all fields and on
line with the opportunities and demands which are correctly
identified in the market. This will depend on our ability to
reduce manufacturing and operating costs, in a special way
the capital, investment and development costs per project
requirements, to reduce the times between customers’ requirements and industrialization, to keep up impeccable
quality, which is one of the best measures of the correct
customer orientation…
And we must be able to do all this fast enough, efficiently
and extracting the best from our main resource, the people in the Group all over the world. Internationalization,
development and training, and specially seizing, which is
usually called “empowerment”, of the people and of the
organization will require the most dramatic changes in order to keep our leadership.
“
Our sector requires from us the highest speed
to implement new ideas and to set up new
points of activity in the world, being capable,
from the very first moment, to supply our
”
products or services at the standards expected
by the customers
To what extent do you think an appropriate management of knowledge is important for the sustainability and growth of the companies?
problem solving, use of our systems and resources… and
we must do it in order to provide the customer with value
and differentiate from our competitors.
In a company within the sector in which we operate and
considering our fast development, with such a broad implementation in the world and with the challenge of growing
in such different cultural environments, preserving, developing and transmitting knowledge is one of our challenges
in order to grow up and be capable of competing.
Innovation, from this approach and in any framework, has
to be aligned with the aims of the business which must be
clearly defined, communicated and assumed by the organization. Innovation must be, clearly, part of the genetic code
of a company leader in the automotive sector.
Our sector requires from us the highest speed to implement new ideas and to set up new points of activity in the
world, being capable, from the very first moment, to supply
our products or services at the standards expected by the
customers. The Group knows how expensive it is for us,
in every sense, to undertake new activities which in other
places could seem to be a routine.
Which message would you like to bring to the
attention of all the people who form Grupo Antolin?
Which role will technological innovation play in
the future of our company?
In the automotive sector, innovation is the best recipe in
order to survive successfully. We all have companies from
our sector in mind which, through their technological ability
to innovate, are in a unique position concerning customers
and consumers. I believe that we all somehow aspire to take
that position.
For the Group, our challenge is to locate innovation again,
this is to say, to create unique and best permanent alternatives, in the centre of our activity. We must innovate in
all fields, in our products, processes, managing practices,
I would like to tell them that they must feel proud of the
business project they have been supporting up to the
present moment and which is going through this complex
situation of the market. I understand these are difficult
times, especially considering that the experience of the
company has always consisted on a continuous and almost
giddy growth. But these are also times to consolidate the
basis of our company, to reinforce ourselves, to convince
ourselves that we will be able to take advantage of the opportunities and adapt to the new challenges of this activity
better than our competitors if we stick together to our business project and trust our future.
Thank them as well for their attitude and support to the
company in these times.
And, personally, thank you for their welcome too. I had never felt foreign to the Group due to my historical relationship,
but they have made me feel back home really quickly. w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 7
plants
OTOTRIM
Grupo Antolin in Turkey
“
OTOTRIM produces, plastic
injection parts such as maplamp (overhead console),
Ototrim was founded in Bursa (Turkey) in 1993
as a joint venture company between Grupo Antolin and SKT A.S. with 50% shares each
sunvisors and headliner
plastic frames for Toyota,
and door trim parts, body
side trim parts, sunvisors and
headliner spacer plastic parts
for Renault, and A-B-C-D
pillar trim parts, SLD trim
”
parts and rear door trim
parts for Ford
News Grupo Antolin
8 · Winter 2009
“SKT is a company of Diniz Holding which is one of the biggest holding companies founded in Bursa and operating in Automotive sector since 1955”
Ototrim started to operate at Bursa Organised Industrial Zone, covering a closed area of 5,400 m2 (6,460 sq yd) in a total area of 20,000 m2 (23,920 sq
yd), when it was founded in 1993. Then the closed area of the company was
enlarged to 7,300 m2 (8,730 sq yd) in 2003 and 11,000 m2 (13,156 sq yd) in
2005 with new plant extensions respectively. The total number of employees
was only 65 at start of operation in 1993, and then increased up to 322 in
August 2009.
The ISO/TS 16949 certificate was obtained in January 2005, the ISO 14001 certificate in September 2005 and Ford Q1 “Preferred Quality Status” in April 2007.
Product portfolio consists mainly of headliners and modular headliners assembled with wiring harnesses, brackets, pads and lamps (45% of total sales volume); door panels (25% of total sales volume), window regulators (manual, elec-
Turnover distribution by clients
Renault
Ford
Toyota
Others
54%
24%
21%
1%
Current images of OTOTRIM
Distribution by products
Headliners
45%
Door Panels
25%
Window Regulators 17%
Other Products
13%
tric and electronic) (17% of total sales volume), sunvisors,
package trays, boards and flat door panels.
GA’s Turkish company delivers headliners for Renault Mégane and
Clio as well as window regulators, door panels, package trays for
Renault Mégane representing more than 50% of its total sales
volume. Ford follows with 24% of sales and Toyota with 21% of
turnover. Headliners, modular headliners and sunvisors for Transit
and Connect Cars are delivered to Ford Otosan. There is also a
warehouse in Ford Otosan Supplier Park for sequential delivery.
Current supplies include headliners, package trays, boards
for Toyota Corolla Verso Auris. Furthermore, other deliveries
are headliners for Karsan-Peugeot minibuses, sunvisors for
the Transit van exported to Ford Southampton (UK) and window regulators for the Sandero to Dacia (Romania).
The headliner, sunvisors and map-lamp (overhead console)
for the new Toyota Corolla Verso started production in February 2009. Moreover, door panels, headliner and sunvisors
for the new Renault Fluence and Basic (sedan and hatchback)
were awarded to OTOTRIM together with body side trims,
sunglass console, spacer plastic parts of the Fluence project
and body side trim and trim trunk plastic parts for the Basic
program. These projects start production in October 2009. In
addition, headliners, sunvisors and hard trim parts for Ford
Transit are also to be manufactured by OTOTRIM. Job1 of the
Project is in January 2011.
In order to produce these plastic injection parts a new plastic
injection plant, covering a closed area of 8,000 m2 in a total
area of 21,000 m2, was built behind the current manufacturing plant of OTOTRIM in November 2008. w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 9
Corporate Responsability Area
Grupo Antolin
corporate responsability
Innoversia
Innovation, diversity, versatility and universality are the concepts which
inspire Innoversia, the line of action launched by the Corporate Responsibility area of Grupo Antolin in March 2009, which bets on training as the
fundamental tool for development in emerging countries.
“
In all these plans, Innoversia
wants to offer official
”
certifications together with
educational organizations
News Grupo Antolin
10 · Winter 2009
The aim of Innoversia is a double one, on the one
hand, to favour the personal improvement of the
employee who receives the training and, on the
other hand, the development of the business itself,
since these initiatives turn out into workers who are
happier, more efficient and involved in the Group
Members of one of the courses in Brazil
Students of the Telecourse of
Portugal, to obtain the primary
education qualification
This way, Innoversia contributes with a strategic value, significant for Grupo Antolin: it has a positive impact on the
motivation of its employees, and creates a reserve of workers who not only have specific training, but also know the
company deeply, its history and its way to do things.
From the headquarters of the Group in Burgos, there is a
follow-up of the students’ results, and study is boosted by
offering language courses to the best students.
Innoversia combines the social support and business strategy policies in the same project. On the one hand, the
employees of the plants in which the basic training needs
have been detected have access to programmes which
have been specifically thought to cover those lacks. On
the other hand, the programme meets the requirements
from the different plants concerning the professional qualifications of the employees. In the case of Brazil, the direct
relatives of the employees can benefit from the courses
for plastic technical experts. This is to say, they are given
the access to professional training with the acquisition of
official degrees, and, at the same time, a source of human
resources is created for the group, in an area in which the
amount of qualified work force is scarce.
· The Telecourse in Portugal, the oldest initiative of the
Group. Around one hundred employees have already
participated in the programme to obtain the Secondary
School Certificate. The impact on the employees is really
positive.
Each case is studied individually. For example, in Tangier,
it was considered that, before starting a professional training plan, it would be more productive to offer a basic
literacy one.
In all these plans, Innoversia wants to offer official certifications together with educational organizations, such as
the Senai (Nacional Service of Industrial Apprenticeship) in
Brazil. Besides, the Group is in charge of searching for the
appropriate subsidies, so that training costs will not affect
the employee in any case.
At present time, Innoversia has three training schools:
· The Training School in Brazil offers a professional training two-year course for plastic technical experts. It was
started in March 2009 and, at present, about thirty pupils study there, all of them direct relatives of the employees who work at the plants of Grupo Antolin in Brazil.
· Finally, in the first term of 2010, the Training School of
Tangier will be opened for the literacy training of the
employees.
Due to the positive results these experiences are obtaining, the group intends to expand this scheme of training
schools to the rest of emerging countries in which we operate, like China, India, South Africa or Mexico.
Innoversia intends to contribute to the development of the
emerging countries in which it operates, and it has proved to
be an efficient way to transmit the corporate culture. Likewise,
it boosts the pride of belonging to our group among the employees, who feel supported and valued by the company. w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 11
Grupo Antolin-Cambrai was built in 2002 in order to produce door panels
J84 and deliver them to Grupo Antolin-Douai PIF. Later, from this project,
our team GA-Douai transformed the panels (Renault Scénic II & Mégane
CC) into door modules and delivered them synchronized.
GRUPO ANTOLIN-CAMBRAI
We are adapting to our clients requirements
protagonists
New building of 2365 m² with 3 docks
devoted to synchronized deliver
At the beginning of 2007, RENAULT confirmed GA as
their supplier for panels of the Renault Scénic III (replacement of the JR84) with a delivery of L3PS* (identical scheme to the one working between GA-RyA and
GA-Palencia for Renault Mégane II)
However, after Renault decided to carry out the manufacturing of new vehicles
in the site at Douai, J96 (replacing the Espace) and H95 (4x4 vehicle with platform Scénic/Mégane), our customer asked us to study the feasibility and cost
of synchronized deliver of all the door panels addressed at the factory of Douai
from our site in Cambrai (35 km away from the Renault Douai factory).
The list of specifications was the following one:
n
n
2 assembly lines to
supply (Line A and
LIne B) in 2 shifts,
that is to say 1,620
vehicles a day
Line A: assembly
of the J/R 95
(Scénic & Grand
Scénic), and J96
(new Espace)
n
Line B : assembly
of the J95, E95
(Mégane CC) and
H95 (new vehicle
similar to Nissan
Qasqai)
n
n
Maximum cadence:
60 vehicles per
hour per line,
that is to say 120
total vehicles.
Time per order:
150 minutes
(time between
the despatch of
the order from
the client and the
assembly of the
panels on the door)
* L3PS: Tool validated by Renault, it consists in assemblying and delivering parts in synchronous mode from the scheduled sequence of the Renault assembly line.
News Grupo Antolin
12 · Winter 2009
SEARCHING THE RIGHT SOLUTION
After several months of reflections and analyses and several
presentations for Renault, we selected two possible solutions:
1st solution
Assembly of the panels of each of the vehicles depending
on the layer L3PS and packing according to the type of vehicle in the internal containers.
From left to right: Fabrice Deregnaucourt, Sébastien Ferro-Million,
Laurence Bernard, Amaury Deregnaucourt, Nicolas Marin (Supervisor),
Hervé Leconte (Development Responsible), Mickaël Bazin (Supervisor),
Robin Bogusz (IT Responsible), Sidhamed Zemmouri
Automatic output of the kits according to the time of receipt of the orders from Renault in order to feed the preparation post of the synchronized deliver batch.
Finally, the 2nd solution was accepted and the investment was
confirmed in February 2008, due to the following reasons:
· Economic profitable solution
“Horizontal” storage in the corridors (capacity 1.5 days)
which means a resynchronization area.
Resynchronization of the panels as soon as the orders for
the preparation of the synchronized deliver are received.
2nd solution
Assembly of the panels per batch and packing per kit (1
right panel and 1 left panel from the same vehicle)
· More flexible solution, without limits in diversity, with a setting up which could be used for other customers (Sevelnord,
for instance).
· No impact in case Renault could not guarantee a 95% reliable L3PS layer.
· Possibility to assembly the panels by batch (instead of L3PS layer)
· Smaller building surface (it saves space)
Arrangement of the kits in an automatic warehouse with a
capacity equivalent to 1.5 days of delivery
· Innovative solution, image improvement for Grupo Antolin.
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 13
SET IN MOTION
OF GA-CAMBRAI
PROJECT
March 2008
We ended up the negotiations with Viastore (chosen supplier for the building of the warehouse) and
the purchase order is launched.
At the same time, we started the detailed study of
the dimensions of the building in order to apply for
a planning permission.
June 2008
The works on the extension (2,365m2) started.
December 2008
The assembly of the shelves in the warehouse
started.
First half of 2009
The company VIASTORE installed 4 robots,
the conveyors, the wiring and the system of
automatic control.
Together with IT Department in Burgos, we
developed the computer application BLADE in
order to ensure the synchronized managing
of the orders, the management of the stored
products and of the production.
9th June 2009
After nearly two months of tuning, trials and training, the activity with Renault was started on, at a
part time pace during the first week and then at a
full time pace.
Automatic Warehouse: 4 robots, 4920 containers
Due to the stop of production of the old Renault Scénic (J84),
in two weekends we were able to set the assembly lines of
panels in line with the warehouse in order to achieve the best
possible linear flow of parts, totally suppressing the non-added
value movements of the material, since the raw material is received until the panel is delivered to the costumer.
After eight weeks of production, and despite some unforeseen
events, we did not provoke any stops in the chain to our customer and we did not make any reference mistakes.
In September 2009, we have started the synchronized delivery
of the first front door panels E95 (Mégane CC), manufactured
by our competitor Eurostyle.
We would like to thank our shareholders and the Managing Direction for relying on us when they accepted to start the investment, and we want to congratulate all those who participated
in the development of this project and the success of its launch.
We are looking forward to Renault’s making the decision
to resume their programmes (J96 y H95), programmes suppressed due to the current situation, and so their plant in
Douai will start again its production in two shifts (or three) in
the two lines. w
News Grupo Antolin
14 · Winter 2009
PLASTIC
A material in
constant evolution
report
1 PROJECTS MANAGEMENT
AND TEAMS
The Plastic Convention organised by the Door Function
Business Unit took place from 22nd to 24th September
and was attended by more than 50 specialists of Grupo
Antolin from different countries and departments. This
event was held at the Headquarters in Burgos.
The Convention started with the main participation of our customer Renault,
who carried out a very positive presentation regarding our relationship and our
future points of agreement, improvement and knowledge to our mutual benefit.
Afterwards, attendants were able to give their opinions through the presentations about Commercial, Industrial, Purchasing, Engineering and Projects, Quality
and Innovation matters. These presentations provided us a very realistic approach
to the situation in which we are.
But, the most interesting activities were the workshops, which took place through
all the morning on the last day and where everyone participated contributing
with their points of view and experience. The following 11 lines of action rose
from these workshops, lines of action to be carried out in the future with the
planning of 11 working groups.
Each line of action has an implementation planning of the different actions and a
group of work which leads them and gives continuity to them.
2 COSTS OF DEVELOPMENT
3 LAUNCHING OF NEW
PROJECTS
4 STANDARDIZATION
OF PROCESSES
5
MANAGEMENT OF
CUSTOMER’S QUOTATIONS
LINES OF ACTION
Door Function BU
Grupo Antolin-Ingenieria
6 ADVANCED ENGINEERING,
PRODUCT AND
PROCESSES TECHNICAL
DEVELOPMENT
7 DEFINITION OF PRODUCTS
AND ROBUST PROCESSES
8 PURCHASES: IMPOSED
AND OWN SUPPLIERS
9 MANAGEMENT OF TOOLS
10 MANAGEMENT AND
ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE
In short, three days of close work collaboration, in a relaxed atmosphere, which
have been useful not only to share knowledge at the highest level, but also to
strengthen social bonds among the Group staff.
11
MANAGEMENT AND
RESOLUTION OF PROBLEMS
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 15
Knowledge
Management
in Grupo Antolin
In the Third Industrial Revolution or “Age of Knowledge” the main asset of
the companies and organizations is knowledge, having always in mind that
it is the people who generate and use it. Knowledge is a strategic element
which determines and configures organizations, being the only good which
increases when it is shared with the others
“
special
Knowledge Management
must be perfectly tuned with
the Company’s Strategy in
order to move forward in the
”
present and future growth
of the Company
News Grupo Antolin
16 · Winter 2009
Up to a few years ago, knowledge was thought to be power, but, that power
lasts only for a little time, until another person or company achieves a higher
advance in knowledge and “ours” becomes obsolete and useless. Grupo Antolin has already been working intensely for two years on the strategic line of
Knowledge Management, which aims to manage effectively the key knowledge
for our company.
Laurence J. Peter, the originator of “Peter’s Principle” used to say that those ones
who do not know where they are going, end up somewhere else. Knowledge
Management must be perfectly tuned with the Company’s Strategy in order to
move forward in the present and future growth of the Company.
The organizations which work in “knowledge” generate changes in the culture
of the company, through the use of the intelligence of all the people who form
the company and using apprenticeship as the base for its development. This
allows for the generation of new business models, integrating the changes which
During Innovative Day Meetings, products and
innovations from the invited suppliers are shown to
Grupo Antolin employees
rise during its cycle of life. Under the premise that having a
great intelligence is no guarantee of its adequate application, Knowledge Management brings about working on the
adequate approach of application.
Grupo Antolin has generated its own model for Knowledge
Management based on the following tools and which answers the following questions:
WHAT do we need to know?
Knowledge Key Map.
It has been largely spoken about the advantages of Knowledge, but most of the organizations do not look upon the
COSTS OF NO KNOWLEDGE, which we could summarise into
the following:
WHO are going to use
knowledge?
Repetition of mistakes
Knowledge leaders and Knowledge Communities.
Lack of anticipation
HOW are we going to manage
knowledge?
Difficulty to “build” new
initiatives in a solid way
Knowledge Global Management System.
This model is based on the Development of Intelligence,
understanding knowledge as an asset that accumulates
in people and in the company, whose base is the use of
the experience. The experience needed by companies is
the one which according to the Latin origin of the term
“experiens” (entrepreneurial, active, constant) leads to
knowledge based on the people’s attitude, and not necessarily linked to time. We are seeking for the experience
which is generated by the different situations lived along
the time, and not the repetition of an activity during all
your life. “It is not the same to have 20 years of experience, as a year repeated 20 times”.
What types of intelligence are necessary for the survival of a
company? The answer to this question is ALL.
Identifying the experience: What do we know? How have
we learnt it? What does that knowledge have?
Learning from experience: Knowing the best practices in order to boost them, and the mistakes, to avoid them.
Wrong decisions based on
“ignorance” at every level
NO KNOWLEDGE generates huge costs to any organization,
and affects directly the profit and loss account and the relationship with the most significant stakeholders of the company (customers, suppliers and employees).
Therefore, it is important to manage adequately the key
knowledge of the company, considering which part of it
must be kept to be competitive, which part must be boost
to become excellent and where we must innovate in order
to become leaders.
The organizations which put Knowledge Management into
practice, bet on the change and transformation into new
companies based on a culture of Self-development and
Growth of the People who form them, being aware of the
depth of the global transformation which is taking place
and with a spirit of anticipation so as to influence and change the future. w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 17
health
Department of Human Resources
Medical Department Grupo Antolin
Influenza A (h1n1)
How to fight against it at work
The new virus of the (H1N1) influenza A is produced by a new strain of
the influenza virus against which, due to the fact that it is new, we are not
protected and a lot of people will run the risk of suffering. Symptoms of this
flu are the same as typical flu symptoms: fever (higher than 38ºC), cough
and fatigue. You can also have headache, sore throat, sneezing, body aches
and, eventually, diarrhoea and vomiting
News Grupo Antolin
18 · Winter 2009
April 2009
Report from the Headquarters giving information about
what was called Swine Flu at that moment.
ARE THERE ANY MEDICAMENTS
TO TREAT THE FLU?
Yes, there are. The new flu virus is treated like the seasonal
flu, with medicines to ease the symptoms: to lower the fever, for the cough, for body aches…
WHAT IS A PANDEMIC OF FLU?
A pandemic is an epidemic affecting a lot of countries in the
world at the same time, as it is the case with this flu.
Press release from the Corporative Human Resources Management to the Human Resources departments of each
company, in order to control the journeys from and to the
affected areas.
May 2009-August 2009
Follow-up of the indications from the Health Directions in
each country. Actions such as the ones below were taken:
· Information and training of the employees through talks,
posters, leaflets about the Flu.
· Control and follow-up of employees showing suspicious
symptoms.
September 2009-October 2009
WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT
WE ARE ON ALERT PHASE 6 OF
PANDEMIC?
On last 11th July, the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to raise the pandemic alert level of the flu from phase
5 to phase 6; the designation of this phase indicates that
a global pandemic is under way. This means that there is a
further spreading of the illness, but not that it is becoming
more serious. WHO defines the state of the new flu as a
moderate pandemic, on the basis of the following reasons:
Press release from the Corporative HHRR Manager, reporting about the Corporative Policy to take.
Setting up of the Corporative Committee against (H1N1)
Influenza A.
Development of the Corporative Performance Plan.
Setting up of the Regional and Local Committees.
Creation of the web page: http://sharepoint.grupoantolin.
com/SiteDirectory/H1N1/default.aspx
Most of the people recover from the infection without the
need to be taken to hospital or receiving medical care.
Elaboration of the Plan of Action in each company of Grupo
Antolin. This Plan includes:
Generally speaking, the level of seriousness of this illness
in different countries seems to be similar to the one of the
seasonal flu. The hospitals and care systems in most of the
countries have been able to assist, up to this moment, all
the people who have been in the need.
· Arranging Measures: i.e. Elaboration of Continuity Plans.
WHICH ACTIONS HAVE BEEN
TAKEN BY GRUPO ANTOLIN IN
ORDER TO PREVENT IT?
The following actions have been taken by Grupo Antolin
in order to prevent the effects of the (H1N1) Influenza A:
· Preventive Measures: Promotion of healthy habits, cleaning and disinfection, control and follow-up of sick employees, and so on.
· Monthly report and follow-up.
Up to this moment, the number of registered cases in the
companies of the Group on a world basis has been very low,
although it is likely that until April-May several waves of cases will take place on different levels of intensity, depending
on the place. Due to this reason, it is advisable to be careful
with healthy habits and keep a healthy diet.w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 19
XV Anniversary
of the Newsletter
the photo
Avelino and José Antolin awarded in
May 1994 with the Gold Medal from the
Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Our Newsletter is 15 years old.
These pictures are a memory
and a tribute for all of you that
made it possible.
THANK-YOU VERY MUCH!
Visit of His Majesty the King of
Spain Juan Carlos in year 2000
Industrial
Operations
Department, 1996
News Grupo Antolin
20 · Winter 2009
His Royal Highness the Prince Felipe during his visit in 1997
Part of the team from Panels and Plastic
Parts Development area in 1996
New organization launch in March 1995
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 21
Volkswagen Group Awards, 1994
Young Engineers Programme, 2002 Graduation
– Headquarters
1998 Christmas Tournament
Team
The General Management and Legal Consultancy team in 1997
Recognition Ceremony, 20th of December 1991. Up in the right corner, our current Chief Operations Officer
Art Competition Award Ceremony in 1999
Agreement between NHK and Grupo Antolin, 2008
One of the best UETs in 2000 - Headquarters Laboratories
1999 Businessman
Award given by
the “Empresarios
de Castilla y León”
magazine
2002 Volkswagen
Group Awards
Opening of our Graphic Engineering Centre in Pune (India), 2006
Visit of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,
President of the Spanish Government,
May 2008
2000 - Inauguration of Grupo AntolinNorth America previous site in Troy
Ford Q1 Award for
Grupo Antolin-Aragusa in 2005
2003. Duke of York in Grupo Antolin-Kent
(United Kingdom)
Prince Felipe Award for Technological Innovation in 2004
José Montilla, the Spanish Minister of Industry,
Commerce & Tourism in 2005, visiting our Headquarters
1988 Ford Quality Award
2007, an agreement with Ningbo
Huaxiang Electronic Co. is signed to
form a Joint Venture
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega,
Vice-President of the Spanish Goverment,
in Antolin Shanghai Autoparts, 2007
The current situation suggests the investment in less polluting transportation
means. The Governments from the different countries, car manufacturers
and even customers, are more and more aware of this fact.
designing the future
Department of Industrial Design
Grupo Antolin-Ingenieria
Electric
Vehicles
a great investment in the future
The main car manufacturers are investing in research and
development of new ecological technologies, the average
citizen is more and more worried and aware of the global
warming, and institutions such as the European Union are
taking policies next to zero tolerance against the emissions
of gases which are detrimental to the atmosphere. On the
other hand, there is the wish to lower the dependence upon
oil and the potential emerging markets
News Grupo Antolin
22 · Winter 2009
“
”
Tomorrow vehicles will be developed around new architecture
designs with electricity as the source of inspiration
From left to right and from the top to the bottom: Twizy, Kangoo, Zoe and Fluence. Electric vehicle range by Renault to be launched in 2011 & 2012
All these factors suggest an attractive change of course
towards cleaner, cheaper and renewable energies. Electric
vehicles are the main general trend and are outlined as one
of the best alternatives of the sector. They are supported
by the increasing technological evolution and their future is
already a reality.
Marketeer, 1956. Electric mini-car
Also in the past, due to the shortage of oil after the Second
World War, some innovating ideas arose aiming at smaller and
lighter cars which provided for better mobility and were less
polluting, that was the case of “micro cars”.
Nowadays, it is hardly surprising that older ideas such as electric micro cars are more feasible than ever, and governments
promote them and offer incentives for their development.
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 23
Exterior and interior of the urban electric concept car Peugeot BB1
Electric concept car. Grupo Antolin Design Department
Nissan Nuvu concept car interior view
Going back to past technologies, applying new, more technological materials and providing higher levels of design, could
be key elements for their evolution.
Our main customers are developing electric vehicles which
match these ecological criteria that tend to minimize environmental impact from the creative stage, going through manufacturing and use, to the different possibilities at the end of
their life (recycling, reuse and so on).
Different ways are searched for in order to commercialise the
vehicles at attractive prices, such as the renting of batteries or
offering the option of leasing the vehicles to the customers,
levelling them to current prices.
At this moment, there are efforts to improve infrastructures in
order to reach further introduction as well as the development
of ion-lithium batteries with larger capacity. There is a search
for larger autonomy using electric energy only, providing the
customer with higher comfort.
In order to comply with all these features, it is necessary to
adapt to a new shape conception of the urban vehicle, higher,
to make it possible to place the batteries on the lower part and
smaller, to make it light and easy to use.
The creation of lighter vehicles is one of the priorities for the
reduction of energy consumption, minimizing CO2 emissions.
To reach this goal it is necessary to use lighter materials, to reduce the size of the vehicles and to develop new technologies.
In short, the design of an electric vehicle implies a change in
the usual approaches to adapt to each of the necessities which
this type of vehicles demands.
The inside functions will be reduced in size and complexity. It
will be necessary to create spaces which are plainer, larger and
brighter, which help to improve the inside sensations. The use
of lighter colours, sunroofs, new touch sensations in different
materials, along with large doses of creativity, will help to make
these interiors more attractive and consequently make them
key elements at the moment of taking the decision to purchase
them. w
Grupo Antolin is already working in order to
foresee the future of all these concepts. On the other
hand, and from our users’ point of view, we must
adapt to this new way of “life on board”
ectric
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Charge stations in Paris and Berlin
News Grupo Antolin
24 · Winter 2009
news in brief
in brief
Innovative day
meetings Sika,
Feti Trocellen &
Toray
Sika is a Swiss group with presence in
more than 70 countries; specialized in
chemicals for construction and industry.
Trocellen is a German multinational considered worldwide as one of the companies with the biggest industry knowledge of the foam.
Global Support
from the
Financial
Community
Continuing with the programme “Innovative Day Meeting”, in September
and October our suppliers SIKA, TROCELLEN, TORAY and FETI have visited
our Headquarters in Burgos.
Toray, a multinational company with
its Headquarters in Japan, is specialized in industrial products, focused
on organic and inorganic chemistry as
well as biochemistry technologies.
Grupo Antolin signs the renewal
of its existing syndicated loan of
248.9 million euros with 40 banks
and a new credit line worth 50
million euros.
During the day of 29th of September, the first-level specialists from Sika
have presented their products and innovations they are performing for the
automotive sector. As well, Trocellen,
Toray and Feti have been with us on
the 27th of October.
Feti is a company born from the Investigation Institute for Electrical Industry
of Hungary. We thank our suppliers
and all the attendees for their cooperation on this kind of programs which
allow us further improvement of our
knowledge management. w
On the 29th of July, Grupo Antolin signed the renewal of its existing syndicated loan of 248.9 million euros with
40 banks, both domestic and foreign
ones. The company has also signed a
new credit line worth 50 million euros.
The operation was led by Ahorro Corporación Financiera and Caja Burgos.
Health and Safety Certification for
Leamington
Grupo Antolin-Kent plant of Leamington (United Kingdom) has obtained the certification of its Health and Safety Management System according to the international
standard OHSAS 18001, after successfully getting through an external audit from the
qualifying organization TÜV, last September.
The implementation of the Management System (Policy, Handbook and Procedures of
Health and Safety of Grupo Antolin) at an optimal level to fulfil all the requirements
of the standard, has been performed during the last year. This implementation, doubtlessly, has benefited from the fact that OHSAS 18001 has a very similar structure
to the environmental standard ISO 14001 considering that, actually, there are several
common procedures with the environmental and quality management systems.
From Grupo Antolin-Kent Management it is expected that this more structured management of health and safety will contribute to reduce labour risks and, therefore,
the number of accidents and labour sicknesses. w
It is important to highlight the degree
of confidence surrounding the transaction, described as a success by the
financial community, having in mind a
high competitive environment and a
severe shortage of liquidity in the financial market. This milestone represents
an important step in the future of Grupo Antolin. The loan renewal arrives to
strengthen the financial structure of
the company and will enable it to face
the investments needed to continue
capturing the potential growth expected in its strategic plan with the necessary financial strength and confidence
of the financial community.
The industrial vocation and business
focus of the company is characterized by a clear strategy for long-term
growth that is sustained by a team
of highly trained professionals. Ultimately, this combination of financial
strength, clear growth strategy and
an exceptional professional teamwork is the best guarantee of the
success in facing the challenges of
the automotive sector. w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 25
María Helena Antolin, awarded with
Professional Excellence Prize
On the last 10th July, María Helena Antolin was awarded with the Prize to Professional Excellence, handed by the Association of Businesswomen of Miranda de Ebro
and its Region (ADEME). The 2nd edition of the Provincial Prizes “Mujer y Empresa”
(Women and Enterprise), held in Lerma, acknowledged the work of outstanding
businesswomen. María Helena Antolin received the Prize to Professional Excellence,
an honour which she shared with the designer Amaya Arzuaga.
Volkswagen
awards Grupo
Antolin-Silao
The president of the ADEME (Association of Businesswomen of Miranda de Ebro
and its Region), who organised the event, admitted that the list of awarded women
“has a special high level, each of them has been carefully chosen because their career
and success will motivate, drive and stand as a model for the rest of society”. On
the other hand, she declared that the aim of these awards is to propel the bringing
together of the businesswomen from Burgos. w
Grupo Antolin-Silao has been
granted with Volkswagen Group
Award 2009, for its global excellence regarding collaboration, commitment and dedication in 2008.
Volkswagen Mexico gives the
Awards the last 30th June, where
14 suppliers have been granted,
11 of them for the first time.
The Ceremony was leaded by
Otto Linder, CEO of VW Mexico;
who stated: “we are immersed in
a consolidation process regarding
suppliers. VW Mexico is restructuring its supply chain, and those
that have excelled thanks to their
results, will be our strategic partners in this consolidation”.
Francisco Alcalá, Manager of
Grupo Antolin-Silao, received
the award from Hans Koch
(Sales Director of VW Mexico &
VW North America), Otto Linder
(VW Mexico CEO), Klauss Gmelin (VW Mexico Quality Manager), Ralf Appel (VW Mexico
Logistics Deputy Manager) and
Manfred Joos (VW Mexico Logistics Manager). w
News Grupo Antolin
26 · Winter 2009
Photo by ADEME
Grupo Antolin
is one of the
Finalists of the
Automotive News
PACE Awards
Grupo Antolin is the supplier for the headliner of the Buick LaCrosse 2010 which
uses acoustical paddings made from discarded cardboard packaging containers.
The recycled material is called QuietShield GRN and it is an innovative solution of Federal Mogul in collaboration with our company. The result is an
acoustical package made especially to
meet General Motor´s requirements, reducing the noise inside the car.
This innovation has been selected as a
Finalist of the prestigious PACE Awards
from the Automotive News magazine.
The winners will be unveiled on the 12th
of April. w
With an investment of one thousand
million euros, Hyundai has started the
production of model i30, both in its sedan and family models. The next model
to be made in this plant will be the Kia
Venga, and a fourth model will be built
in 2011.
From left to right: Rhee Ounchang (Head of Purchasing Director - HMMC). Pablo Baroja (Sales Director/BU Door Function - Grupo Antolin)
Ernesto Antolin (Vice-President - Grupo Antolin). Kim Eokjo (President & CEO - HMMC)
HYUNDAI arrives in Europe
As Hyundai supplier, Grupo Antolin was
present at the official opening of the first
plant that the South Korean company has
opened in Europe, in the city of Nosovice
(Czech Republic).
This plant started production in November last year, but it was not until 24th
The new factory of the Czech Republic
has generated 2,000 direct jobs, and
4,000 indirect ones, and it is estimated
that in 2011, these figures will increase
up to 3,500 and 7,500 employees.
Euisun Chung, President of Hyundai,
stated that this plant has a vital role to
perform for the achievement of their
global objectives, so it will be carefully
cared for in order to be a model site
within car industry.
September this year that the official
opening took place. Its yearly production
capacity is of 200,000 vehicles, figure
which will be increased up to 300,000
units in 2011. Out of the production,
90% will be addressed to Europe, and Hyundai is the fifth world car manufacthe 10% left will be exported to the turer, with nearly three million cars sold
in 2008. w
Middle East and Africa.
International Door Systems,
awarded by Ford within the
World Excellence Award 2008
IDS, Grupo Antolin Company created in collaboration with Küster
and Keykert in Mexico has been awarded in the Ford World Excellence Award 2008. In this facility are produced the door modules
for the models: Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln MKZ. IDS
was one of the 36 suppliers awarded within the silver category.
This recognition is the result of an outstanding performance
by the IDS team in the door module. This award is the result
of the contributions and commitment to achieve Ford goals.
IDS has consistently demonstrate superior quality, delivery and
cost performance.
The ceremony took place on the 22nd of June in 2009 and was
headed by the major executive of all the territories, Americas,
Asia Pacific and Europe as all the main areas of responsibility at
global level. The prize was collected by Miguel Angel Vicente as
a representative of the company in the USA. Congratulations!
Miguel Ángel Vicente received the award as Grupo Antolin
representative in USA. In the picture, he is the first on the left
following by Derek Kuzak (Group VP Global Product Development), John Parker (Executive VP Asia Pacific), Mark Fields (Executive VP/President of the Americas), John Fleming (Executive
VP and Chairman and CEO, Ford of Europe) and Tony Brown
(Group VP Global Purchasing). w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 27
Jean-Christophe Quémard, Purchasing Director PSA and Pierre Ianni, PSA Vigo plant Manager,
listen to the explanations during their visit to GA-PGA.
PSA Peugeot
Citroën visit to
GA-PGA
On the 27th of October, there has been a
meeting with the Purchasing Department
of PSA Peugeot Citroën in our plant of
Porriño (Pontevedra-Spain).
Our colleagues of Grupo Antolin-PGA
and the Headquarters led this visit. People
from the plant of PSA in Vigo and from
its French Headquarters attended as well.
Through the presentations made, we
have showed the capacity of Grupo
Antolin to deal with the new vehicles
that will be produced in PSA Vigo in the
next years: PSA M3/M4 and Citroën C4
Picasso B78.
Likewise, we reminded them our products as well as activities of our plants
and their proximity to PSA Vigo. During
the visit, we put special emphasis on the
advantages of roll forming processes of
Grupo Antolin-PGA against inlay ones:
· The production of components with
non-inlaid materials of high limit elastic
(THLE), reduces thickness, which means
mass reduction and then, the reduction
of the total weight of the vehicle, something currently very demanded by our
client.
A minute of
silence in Grupo
Antolin against
terrorist attacks
by ETA
On the 31st of July at 2 pm, all Grupo
Antolin staff joined with the victims
of the last terrorist attacks that hit so
seriously the people from Burgos.
The meeting was held at the exterior
side of our Headquarters in Burgos to
condemn and repudiate these actions.
It was also in solidarity with the all
affected people and a way to give our
condolences to the families of the two
civil guards murdered recently, especially to the family of the young boy from
Burgos - Carlos Saénz de Tejada.w
· At the same time, investments are dramatically lower.
Finally, it was underlined that Grupo Antolin has a potential for producing components by roll forming in THLE (Dual
phase 1200…) or in magnesium. w
Institutional visit of the Rector of the University of Burgos
This spring, in our Headquarters in Burgos we have received a broad representation from University of Burgos (UBU), headed by its rector. This meeting is a demonstration of the close relationship that Grupo Antolin maintains with Research Organizations and Universities
within its politics of distributed Innovation. w
From left to right:
Fernando Rey, Director of
Corporate Innovation Grupo
Antolin, José Manuel Temiño,
CEO Grupo Antolin, Jordi Rovira,
Vice-rector of Investigation
UBU, José Luis Peña, Vice-rector
of Economy, Planification and
Technological Innovation UBU,
Emma Antolin, Director of
Corporative Responsability Grupo
Antolin, Alfonso Murillo, Rector
UBU & José María GarcíaMoreno, General Secretary UBU.
News Grupo Antolin
28 · Winter 2009
Technological
Committee
MAGNO
On 7th October, the Technological Committee of Cenit Magno (Magnesium
New Technological Opportunities) held a
meeting at the Auditorium of our Headquarters. This yearly meeting gathered
both the managers and the technicians
of the companies participating in this
project.
This initiative, led by Grupo Antolin,
is formed by different leading companies in the field of the metallurgical
technologies in Spain, as well as different public institutions. The event was
graced with the presence of the CDTI
(Centre for the Industrial Technological Development), which evaluated the
technological activity developed during
the first year of life of the project. The
Magno project is included in the CENIT
programme, funded by the CDTI, which
aims at the development of great innovation projects.
Magno is made up, apart from Grupo
Antolin, of Akaba, Bostland, Coniex, Ecofond, Fagor, Gis 2003, Lebario, Insertec,
Mugape, Pretransa, Reydesa and Grupo
TTT. The public organizations participant
in this initiative are the National Centre
of Metallurgic Research (CENIM), Technological Centre of Miranda (CTME), Foundation for Transportation and Energy R&D
(CIDAUT), Centre of Electro-Chemistry (CIDETEC), International Centre of Engineering Numeric Methods (CIMNE), Fatronik,
Ikerlan, Foundation Inasmet, Advanced
Research Institute of Madrid (IMDEA),
Inatec, University of Lebrija (UNNE), Complutense University of Madrid, University
of Alicante, University of Burgos (UBU),
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC),
Technical University of Madrid (CEI).
The aim of this project is to develop innovating technology in order to solve the
problems which have no present solution
in the field of the injection processes of
magnesium alloys at a high pressure.
Magno is generating an important net
of knowledge among the companies,
technological centres and universities,
which will enable Spain to be placed in
a leading position of technology and
competitiveness in a growing market
worried about making materials lighter, low consumption and recyclable
products. w
Grupo Antolin Sunderland
achieves Nissan Safety
Award
Sunderland, the Grupo Antolin on site JIT facility based in Nissan, has received an award from Nissan Motor UK for reaching the goal of zero lost working time due to accident for a
minimum period of one year.
The scheme uses as a benchmark the scheme of Dupont Chemical Company, recognised as the leaders in Europe for Health and
Safety practice, using similar processes to 5S and Total Quality.
The Sunderland plant is fully integrated into this culture, with all
employees trained through a Cascading Auditing process from
the Plant Manager to leading operators, rigorous assessments of
incidents (that could have been accidents) and the promotion of
the mind set that everyone is responsible for their own actions.
Steve Lloyd, Production Manager of Grupo Antolin plant in Sunderland receiving the award
from Mike Vezmar, Nissan Health and Safety Manager.
It is through this process and high degree of effort and support from the staff that the zero lost time has been achieved
and resulted in the award being presented following the
Quarterly Directors review on 15th July 2009. w
News Grupo Antolin
Winter 2009 · 29
Grupo Antolin booth
Grupo Antolin
participates in
the 17th Seminar
of Magnesium in
the Automotive
Industry
The 17th Seminar on Magnesium in
the Automotive Industry was held on
last 16th and 17th September in Le
Méridien Hotel in Stuttgart. Diego Val,
Engineer of Materials from Grupo Antolin attended the event, presenting
the conference Magnesium, Grupo
Antolin. During his speech he explained the experience in magnesium
of our company and its capabilities
through the different applications and
benefits of this material.
During the seminar, an exhibition
with the products shown by each
of the participating companies was
carried out. Among the participating companies, we must outline the
presence of suppliers of raw material, crucibles, injection machines
and so on, as well as final customers
such as BMW, Mercedes, Porsche…
SAIC Motor
Thrive Together
with Grupo
Antolin on China
Auto Market
SAIC Motor is an excellent representative of National brands in the Chinese
Automotive Market. Since SAIC bought
the technology of platform 5 Seri and
platform 7 Seri from Rover in 2005, it
has successfully developed its own models of Roewe 750 & Roewe 550 which
shows the beginning of its strategy to
create a new brand for the middle-high
end market with its own intellectual
property. After a tough fight for the
Roewe 750 to obtain the recognition of
the customer, Roewe 550 has achieved
excellent marketing performance since
the car was launched in 2008.
In 2005, Grupo Antolin started its
business relationship with SAIC Motor, one of the main Chinese OEMs.
Currently, SAIC, thanks to its great
ambition and continuous effort, has
become the leading local car manufacturer in China.
Grupo Antolin has demonstrated the
willingness to complete tough mis-
sions by good understanding of customer needs in this country (which are
quite different from our global OEMs)
and supporting them on development, using our products know-how
and expertise.
Grupo Antolin in China has been
awarded with the following projects:
D162 & S161 (Roewe 350), and MG
Mingjue MG7.
- D162 is a SUV model based on
Ssangyong SUV technology. SAIC
started its development in 2006.
- S161 (Roewe 350) is the main vehicle which helps SAIC snatch the A
class vehicle market in the future. It
is co-designed by the UK Technical
center, Korean Ssangyong Technical
Center and SAIC Motor Technical
Center (Shanghai). The car SOP
date is set on February 2010.
During the cooperation on these
projects, people from both companies
developed not only good mutual understanding but also friendship. The
Basketball Teams of Grupo Antolin
Shanghai and SAIC Exterior & Interior held a match successfully on 27th
March which witnessed the development of Partnership. w
The products Grupo Antolin stood
out were the ones related to the
Seat Function, such as the seat back
rest for the Citroën C4 Picasso, and
the cross of the Mercedes Vito / Viano seats, although prototypes of
other products as the window lifters
and hand brakes were shown.
These conferences have been useful in order to know the new trends
and needs of the market as well as to
share knowledge with some of the
main companies and technological
centres connected with this material. w
First Basketball Match between Grupo Antolin (China Team) and SAIC Motor on 27th March 2009
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before
5S in the Area
of the Industrial
Corporate
Management
Among the series of actions for the integration of the Industrial Corporate Management (Dirección Corporativa Industrial-DCI), during the month of September,
it was decided to launch an exercise 5S,
in which all the team took an active part.
In order to perform this exercise, the staff of
DCI was divided into groups, led by the staff
in the Area of Corporate Improvement.
At the beginning of the exercise, the participants received “in situ” training about the
5S, their frame and scope, in the Head Of-
fice. Following the 3+2 approach for their
application, the 3 first or action S (Select,
Sort, Clean) and the 2 last ones, Standardize, creating reference states (meeting
rooms, common cupboards, corridors, wiring, printers) and Sustain, with the leaders’
commitment (follow-up and improvement
through the radar graph) and the Management (Kamishibai, confirmation and maintenance of standards).
The result of the action was amazing:
27% of the storing space was released:
- This translates into visual improvement, considering that the Head Office is the image of our business.
- It lets us save time; it is easier to find
people and material.
- Fewer mistakes are made, in shipping
and analysis of the information.
- The appropriate state of the
materials and the means lengthens
their useful life.
- Besides, it lets us identify other improvement areas.
Consequently, our work is of a higher
quality, more productive, and this has a
direct effect in the cost. An organised
and clean place is a safer place and it
motivates the ones who work in it.
The 5S in the plants of the Group have already been launched and their implementation in the Head Office will be completed
along 2010. Next time you visit us, pay
attention to the Reference States! w
while
after
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Cat. A First prize - Grupo Antolin-South Africa
Tyrelle Chetty
Cat. A Third prize - Grupo
Antolin-Silao
José Ángel Renteria
Colour the
Christmas!
As it is common in this time of the year,
the Corporative Human Resources Department has organized XV Art Competition Christmas 2009.
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The youngest have responded to the announcement, from Japan to Brazil, going through all the continents. Almost
800 children have come to the different
companies of GA where they parents
work to put colour with creativity and
imagination to the coming holidays.
Each company has selected its winning
drawings for each age category, which
were representing them in the World
Wide level competition. The award ceremony will be held on the 11th of December in the Headquarters of Grupo Antolin.
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Rohit Aava
Cat. B Second prize - Grupo Antolin (Central/Headquarters)
Cat. B Third prize - Grupo Antolin-Michigan
On the other hand, the last year winner, Joel
Fernández Soto, from GA-PGA, tells us excited about his trip to Disneyland Paris, which
he enjoyed from the first moment with his
family. Upon arrival in the hotel, that was a
real western town, his eyes lit up when they
saw Chip and Dale. To see the faces of both
- him and his sister - makes it worthwhile.
Everything was new discoveries and sensations.
They have lived few days of a true madness.
They have been getting up very early to enjoy
the park before its opening to the public and
organizing everything not to stop for even 5
minutes. Thus, after spending the day between
attractions and spectacles, at the time of dinner
they fell in a deep sleep. They have taken the
advantage of the trip in 100%.
Joel, what have you liked the most?
What I have liked the most was a Space
Mountain. Me and my sister, we liked a
Alvar Sáiz
Julia Kropp
lot as well a Buzz Lightyear, she liked it so
much that she wanted to buy a gun from
Buzz. I liked a lot as well eating in the restaurant of Mickey. My sister and I could
have seen and make photos with Mickey,
Goofy, Pluto and lots of more.
Is there any attraction that you remember especially apart from these
ones?
The one with Nemo, it seemed very calm
and it was not calm at all. It impressed my
little sister a lot. But well, she was brave
and didn’t cry at all.
Is there something more that you remember?
At the end of the trip my parents let us
have a make-up, I have asked for a makeup of a leopard… the trip was great. I want
to thank Grupo Antolin. w
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Winter 2009 · 33
Grupo AntolinIngenieria
winner of the
University-Company
Award 2009
Grupo Antolin-Ingenieria, a company dedicated to research, development and innovation activities in Grupo Antolin, has received “University-Company Award 2009”
in its Company range.
This award, granted by REDFUE (Red Española De Fundaciones Universidad Empresa), recognizes those companies which
have involved the University in its strategy
through a continuous relationship with
quality and impact on teaching and research.
María Helena Antolin, a member of the
Board of Directors of Grupo Antolin, has
been very proud to receive the award
from hands of the Royal Highness the
Infanta Elena, in a ceremony held on the
25th of November in Madrid at the Faculty of Humanities of UNED.
This award recognizes the career of Grupo
Antolin-Ingenieria, which since its creation in 1993, has established a strategy of
collaboration University-Company, incorporating the politics of medium-long term
with technological centres and universities, offering continuity in its lines of work.
Mentioned strategy goes from developing
innovative projects to training experts in
R&D in their own departments or creating
their own patents.
As an added value it needs to be emphasized that ongoing collaboration with universities and technological centres has led
Grupo Antolin-Ingenieria to take a part in
5 CENIT projects that have the aim of realization of a multidisciplinary research to
generate the know-how inside the auxiliary automotive sector. w
Road Safety and Grupo Antolin
“We count on you” was the slogan which perfectly reflected
the result of the campaign on Road Safety which we carried out just before the beginning of the summer holiday
period. From 22nd to 26th June, the Group Headquarters
could closely live the importance of safe driving thanks to
the different activities organised from the areas of Corporate Social Responsibility and Labour Risk Prevention of the
company.
Nearly 200 people participated in practical workshops provided by Toyota regarding the effects of drunk driving; training
in first aid on the road thanks to RACE and to our workmate
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34 · Winter 2009
from Grupo Antolin-Eurotrim and Red Cross volunteer, Jesús
Mª Castro, and they listened first hand real experiences told
by victims of road accidents. Likewise, the Department of
Safety and Simulation shared with the attendants the work
they are carrying out concerning active and passive safety
matters in the car.
Under the slogan “donate blood, donate life”, the week ended with a blood donation session organised in collaboration
with the Blood Donors’ Brotherhood in Burgos, who showed
their gratitude for the obtained response and the record of
registered new donors. w
Intertrim
awarded with
the 2008
Supplier Merit
Award by
General Motors
The Supplier Merit Awards from General Motors principal aim is to award
the best suppliers of the year.
Since 1995, year in which Intertrim
became a supplier for General Motors,
we have worked hard aiming at reaching the quality standards demanded
by our customer. As an acknowledgement of our efficiency, we have won
the award to the best supplier of headliners trim in South America in 2008 for
quality, service, technology and price.
Currently, from Intertrim, we are supplying to General Motors about 34,500
headliners a month for the following
models: Pontiac Montana, Chevrolet
Blazer, Vectra, Zafira, Meriva, Chevrolet S-10, Corsa family and Celta family.
Besides, we carry on working actively
in the search for opportunities of new
business, due to the fact that we are a
key supplier for the new strategies of
General Motors, not only in Brazil, but
also in global projects. w
The new Tata World Truck equipped
by Grupo Antolin-Pune
Tata has recently launched its last generation of trucks (Tata World Truck)
with 10 major variants. This truck has
been developed by Tata Motors together with two of its subsidiaries in
South Korea and United Kingdom.
Grupo Antolin-Pune is the supplier of
the headliner and interior side trim of
these vehicles, delivering more than 20
references.
The modular headliner integrates lamp
bezels, speaker grills, and air ducts.
Additionally, the knitted fabrics used
in the interior side trim are treated to
ensure their cleanliness.
Once more, Grupo Antolin has provided
the most profitable solution to its client,
helping this Indian truck to have an interior
comparable with the ones sold in Europe.
Did you know that...
…Volkswagen-Porsche Group
has overtaken Toyota as world’s largest
automaker? Until October 2009,
VW-Porsche has produced
4.4 million vehicles against 4 million
from its rival Toyota.
Also remarkable is the difficulty when
working with components of “huge
truck” proportions in order to maintain tolerances, fit and finish. w
Source: General Services Dir. GA and Marketing-GA
…the total surface owned
by Grupo Antolin worldwide
is 785,011 m2 among TechnicalCommercial Offices (37,450 m 2),
Production Plants (639,044 m 2) and
Logistic Centres or JITs (108,517 m 2)?
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Winter 2009 · 35
AUDI’s
1909
2009
100 Anniversary
th
the history corner
Marketing Department
Grupo Antolin
A brand proud of its history
However, if we want to understand how Audi has
reached a hundred years of age constantly innovating,
without forgetting the criteria of technology, safety, design and sportive image, which have allowed them to
remain at the top, it is important to have a look at its
history and see the development of its evolution in the
manufacturing of engines and cars from its beginnings.
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36 · Winter 2009
“100 years in the vanguard of technology” says the slogan of Audi, because
nowadays, we all see this brand as a synonym of innovation and quality,
since Audi has the honour to have been pioneer in plenty of the technological steps forward achieved in the mechanical field in the last century.
On 16th July 1909, August Horch, due to the disagreements with his
former company, A. Horch & Cie, founded by himself, left the company and created a new one under the name Horch AutomobilWerke GmbH. Given that his surname was protected by trademark,
he changed it for Audi, which is in fact its Latin translation, which
means “listen”. The name of the new company, Audiwerke GmbH,
came into effect on 25th April 1910.
Since the middle 1920’s, the North American cars had been invading Europe and demanding from the local brands the updating of
their methods of chain production. With the economic crisis of
1929 the situation went worse, and it was then when the four
main automotive German companies decided to merge. Audi,
DKW, Horch and Wanderer became a unique company which they
called Auto Union AG. This is how in 1932 the emblem of the four
hoops was born, which is currently in force.
The success of this union lay in the fact that the names and certain
autonomy of each company as a brand were kept. In order to avoid
the competitiveness within the newly born Auto Union AG, they
carried out a distribution of market segments:
· DKW – motorcycles and small cars
· Wanderer – medium cars
· Audi – luxurious cars addressed at the medium segment
· Horch – high range vehicles.
The 30’s were a stage of great success in sports for Auto Union, a
time of important deeds at the Great Prizes with the Type A, Type
B, Type C or the aerodynamic Type C Streamliner, a real gem from
1937 with its 16 cylinders and 520 HP which beat all the speed
records (more than 400 km/h).
August Horch
(1868 - 1951)
August Horch, German engineer, pioneer in
the automotive industry and founder of the
company which is the Audi brand at present.
He worked for Karl Benz from 1896 until he
created A. Horch & Cie in November 1899
in Ehrenfeld (Cologne, Germany). The first
Horch automobile was made in 1901. The
company moved to Reichenbach in 1902 and
to Zwickau in 1904.
Horch left the company in 1909 after an
internal fight and set up his own company,
which marked the beginning of a story that
is worth to remember. Although his company
went through plenty of changes, Horch was
a nonconformist man, who questioned everything; in his mind, the idea which prevailed
was to make cars that gave solutions to
problems which nobody had raised before,
and that was the way he lived, constantly
innovating, what made him become a legend
in the history of automotive industry.
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Winter 2009 · 37
Audi Type A (1910), first vehicle with Audi
name
1910 Horch Automobil-Werke
GmbH is founded. It was later called
Audiwerke, GmbH.
of the design of the competition
car based on the plans by Frederic
Porsche.
1921 Audiwerke AG presents the
Audi Type K, which was the first car in
Germany with the steering-wheel on
the left, for an easier and safer driving.
The first crash and rollover tests were
carried out.
1923 Type M, with 6 cylinders
engine, is manufactured.
1932 Auto Union AG is born, with
its Head Office in Chemnitz. This was
the merger of the four brands; Audi,
DKW, Wanderer & Horch.
1933 In the motor show of Berlin,
Auto Union presents the new Audi
Front UW, their first passengers’ car
of a standard size with Front Wheel
Drive. The company used a principle
of modular design for the first time.
1934 Auto Union reached their
highest popularity with the success
Audi Type C (1912)
Audi Type K (1921)
First vehicle in Germany with left-hand-drive
Auto Union not only stood out because of its competitive and
technological deeds, but also was one of the first brands which
showed interest in safety. In 1934 they already carried out crash
and rollover tests with their vehicles.
The acquisition of most of its shares by Daimler-Benz AG was an
important landmark in the 50’s. From the 24th April, 1958 until
the end of 1965, Auto Union was a subsidiary company under
the absolute control of the Daimler group.
However, it was between 1964 and 1966 when the great transformation for Auto Union took place. The company changed
its name to Audi NSU Auto Union AG, after being purchased
by Volkswagen and also incorporating the company NSU Mo-
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1958 Daimler-Benz takes over Auto
Union.
1964 Volkswagen AG purchases the
majority of the shares of Auto Union.
1965 It becomes the total property
of Volkswagen AG.
1968 Launching of the Audi 100, it
reached a high success on sales.
1969 NSU Motorenwerke AG, (company devoted to motorcycle manufacturing, which had just been taken over
by Volkswagen) and Auto Union merge
and become Audi NSU Auto Union AG.
1972 The Audi 80 is presented
Audi Type M, first six-cylinder car
“
The company has its head office in
Ingolstadt, in the federal state of Bavaria
”
in Germany. Grupo Antolin supplies
different components for this brand.
(which would be the future A4). It was
an indisputable success, more than a
million units were sold in 6 years.
1974 The Audi 50 is launched, the
smallest car of Audi’s model range, as
a reaction to the energy crisis of that
decade.
1980 The Audi Quattro is shown
at the Geneva’s Motor Show, a four
wheel drive sports coupé.
1982 Third generation of the Audi
100, synonym of progress design and
low aerodynamic rate.
1985 On 1st January, Audi NSU Auto
Union AG changes its name for AUDI
AG, at the same time, it moves to
Ingolstadt.
1986 AUDI AG, pioneer in total galvanizing of the bodywork of their cars, presents
an Audi 80 with corrosion resistance 10year guarantee and excellent streamline.
Type C Streamliner
(1937)
1989 The first diesel engines with direct injection start to be manufactured.
They are assembled for the first time in
the Audi 100.
2007 Audi exceeded its own production record for the 14th consecutive
year with 978,300 vehicles, 4%
higher than in 2006.
1994 The Audi A8 incorporates a
totally aluminium-made bodywork.
The Audi 80 changes its name to
A4 and the Audi 100 will be known
as A6.
2008 Audi presents the R8 Spider,
the first automobile which incorporates all the external lights system with
LED technology.
1996 Audi launches its compact A3
into the market.
1998 Audi TT sports car launching.
2009 Audi is 100 years old on 16th July.
Audi Centenary sculpture
in Goodwood, England
2000 Audi introduces their first allroad vehicle, the Audi AllRoad Quattro
and also the Audi A2.
2004 First new “single frame” front
grille and launching of the Audi A3
Sportback.
2006 The first SUV by Audi is released,
the Q7.
Audi Front UW (1933)
First passengers’ car with front-wheel drive
Audi 100 (1968), served as the basis of a range
of models that guarantee Audi’s future independency
Audi 50 (1974)
The answer of Audi to the crisis
World speed record
reaching over
400 km/h
torenwerke AG (a manufacturer of motorcycles mainly). The
name Audi AG was definitely settled in 1985.
Two of the highest successful creations of Audi were the four
wheel drive and the TDI engines. The Audi Quattro, in the market
since 1980, was the first high performance four wheel drive vehicle. A new driving concept which had only been used in lorries
and SUV vehicles up to that moment. Thanks to its world success
in the motor sport, it was gradually applied in all the Audi range.
And, although direct injection was not totally new for sedans,
the TDI improved the development and the performance. In
1989 the Audi 100 was presented, with a TDI engine, which
was a success in the market. However, the greatest success
would come in the forthcoming years: in 1991 they launched
the now historical block 1.9 TDI with four cylinders and 90 HP.
Later, it was launched in its 110 HP version, with variable turbine geometry (VTG) turbocharger, until the birth of engines
such as V10 or V12 TDI, for the Audi Q7 with 500 HP.
Nowadays, this brand keeps on innovating, following its legacy, what they call the essence of the real engine of Audi,
and acting on the essential pillars of automobiles: technology, safety, design and sportive image. Currently, within the
Volkswagen group, Audi is the brand with the highest performance and latest technology. In 2008 Audi sold 1,003,469
vehicles, got a turnover of 34,196 million euros, and yielded
3,177 million euros in profits before tax. w
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Winter 2009 · 39
GRUPO ANTOLIN
around the world
SPAIN
Grupo Antolin (Headquarters)
Grupo Antolin – Alava
Grupo Antolin – Ara
Grupo Antolin – Aragusa
Grupo Antolin – Ardasa
Grupo Antolin – Autotrim
Grupo Antolin – Dapsa
Grupo Antolin – Eurotrim
Grupo Antolin – Ingeniería
Grupo Antolin – Magnesio
Grupo Antolin – Martorell
Grupo Antolin – Navarra
Grupo Antolin – Palencia
Grupo Antolin – PGA
Grupo Antolin – Plasbur
Grupo Antolin – RyA
Grupo Antolin – Vigo
ARGENTINA
IRAUTO
BRAZIL
Antolin - Sudamerica (TCO)
Intertrim
Iramec
Trimtec
CHINA
Grupo Antolin - Shanghai (TCO)
Antolin Guangzhou Autoparts
Antolin Shanghai Autoparts
ChongQing Antolin Toupu Overhead Systems
Ningbo Antolin Huaxiang Auto Parts
CZECH REPUBLIC
Grupo Antolin - Bohemia
Grupo Antolin - Ostrava
Grupo Antolin - Turnov
FRANCE
Grupo Antolin - France (TCO)
Grupo Antolin - Cambrai
Grupo Antolin - HFR
Grupo Antolin - IGA
Grupo Antolin - Ingénierie Siegès
Grupo Antolin - Jarny
Grupo Antolin - Loire
Grupo Antolin - Transport
Grupo Antolin - Vosges
GERMANY
Grupo Antolin - Deutschland (TCO)
Grupo Antolin - Autoform
Grupo Antolin - Logistik Deutschland
INDIA
Grupo Antolin - Chennai
Grupo Antolin - Pune
Grupo Antolin - Pune (Design Center)
Krishna Grupo Antolin
IRAN
(Technological License Agreement)
JAPAN
Grupo Antolin - Japan (TCO)
MEXICO
Grupo Antolin - Saltillo
Grupo Antolin - Silao
International Door Systems
Mexican Door Company
MOROCCO
Antolin - Tanger
POLAND
Silesia Plastic
PORTUGAL
Grupo Antolin - Lusitânia
RUSSIA
Grupo Antolin - St Petersburg
SLOVAKIA
Grupo Antolin - Bratislava
Slovakian Door Company
SOUTH AFRICA
Grupo Antolin - South Africa
SOUTH KOREA
Grupo Antolin - Korea (TCO)
Dong Won Tech
THAILAND
(Technological License Agreement)
TURKEY
Ototrim
UNITED KINGDOM
Grupo Antolin - UK (TCO)
Grupo Antolin - Kent
Grupo Antolin - Leamington
UNITED STATES
Grupo Antolin - North America (TCO)
Grupo Antolin - Fairfax
Grupo Antolin - Illinois
Grupo Antolin - Kentucky
Grupo Antolin - Louisiana
Grupo Antolin - Michigan
Grupo Antolin - Warren
Grupo Antolin - Wayne
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