RAISING STANDARDS KLEIN automotive, based in North Moravia near the Polish border, has supplied metal parts to the automotive industry for over 40 years. In the past decade, the company has become a strategic partner of Skoda Auto, and in 2015 it won the Volkswagen Group Award Certificate granted to the best suppliers. Romana Moares spoke to managing director Radek Hansmann about the company’s latest achievements and its plans for the future.
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LEIN automotive, a successor to a traditional metal component manufacturer, specialises in the production of pressed, welded, machined and assembled parts for the automotive industry. Currently the company offers over 800 products plus a further 200 as spare parts. The automotive sector consumes 95 per cent of its output, while the rest is sold to the electrical sector, which is now declining. About 25 per cent of production is sold to export markets.
Automotive now and always Klein’s products can be found in the vehicles of most major carmakers, such as Skoda, Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Citroen, Peugeot and Opel. To these leading companies, as 44 Industry Europe
well as their suppliers, Klein offers not only reliable manufacturing performance, but also qualified partnership in product and process design and development, quality planning and after sales service and logistics. Last year, the company changed its name from Klein&Blazek to KLEIN Automotive. “Today’s Klein Group consists of several different companies but the word ‘automotive’ is a clear statement of our business direction as well as our history. Supplying the automotive industry has been our long-term priority, and all internal processes have been set to match the standards required by this very demanding sector. This will remain so well into the future – we do not plan any major diversification into other industries,” says Mr Hansmann.
