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November 29, 2016 01:00 AM

Hutchinson sets sights on global expansion

Patrick Raleigh
European Rubber Journal
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    Jacques Maigne, chairman and CEO of Hutchinson S.A,

    PARIS—French rubber parts manufacturer Hutchinson S.A. is expanding its worldwide manufacturing operation, which includes 95 industrial sites—including 60 in Europe, 19 in North America and 10 in Asia—and 28 technical centers around the world.

    Hutchinson “essentially goes where our customers are,” said Jacques Maigne, chairman and CEO, explaining his global manufacturing strategy for the non-tire rubber products maker, which has almost $4 billion in annual sales.

    A current focus is on Poland, the group's second largest country of manufacturing, with around 7,000 employees and five plants—two in Lodz for body sealing systems and aerospace and industrial products; two in Zywiec, both for fluid transfer systems, and one in Bielsko Biala for fluid transfer systems.

    According to Maigne, the company recently has expanded its operations in Lodz and in Zywiec, under a company program that has included the introduction of mixing facilities to Poland.

    In the Czech Republic, Hutchinson is expanding its 600-employee fluid transfer operation in Rokycany—its first ever plant in eastern Europe—with the addition of a new workshop at the location near Prague.

    Elsewhere in the region, Hutchinson manufactures automotive and aerospace parts in Brasov Romania, including a new air duct workshop for Airbus in Brasov.

    The group has also a presence in Serbia where, said Maigne, it has opened a new plant for automotive fluid transfer parts and systems this year at Ruma, north of Belgrade.

    Hutchinson is also increasing its footprint in North America with the recent acquisition of Danielson, Conn.-based Delta Rubber Co., a 65-employee maker of precision rubber components for the automotive, energy and industrial markets, and the opening of a new plant for Airbus in Mobile, Ala.

    Hutchinson's Airbus thermal acoustic insulation

    In Asia, meanwhile, Hutchinson operates four plants in China, two of them quite new: in Shenyang to serve BMW; and Chonqing to serve Ford and Changan. The French group also operates a plant in Suzhou for AVS and seals, and one in Wuhan for hoses and weatherstrips.

    In Korea, Hutchinson makes a range of automotive and non-automotive parts. It operates a plant in Eumseong, southeast of Seoul, and another near the border with North Korea. The latter facility, said Maigne, is now being relocated to Hutchinson's Hung Yen plant close to Hanoi in Vietnam.

    Dedicated to making fluid transfer systems for the automotive market, the Vietnamese unit offers Hutchinson a low-cost base and already works with the Korean operation, Maigne explained.

    In Japan, the company has a sales and technical office in Tokyo, though Maigne said Hutchinson plans to establish a research and development center there to help Hutchinson become “more aggressive” in the Japanese market.

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