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November 15, 2019 02:23 PM

EV business contracts help to drive Tristone's growth in 2019

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    Tristone's Mooresville, N.C., plant began production in August.

    FRANKFURT, Germany—Tristone Flowtech has won $101 million worth of business awards over the first nine months of 2019, with more than 40 percent of the deals relating to battery electric or hybrid passenger cars.

    The German fluid management systems specialist also reported a 6 percent year-on-year growth in sales to $245 million over the nine months to end of September.

    "This sales growth is a strong signal in declining markets, where most of our OEM customers and the other market participants are faced with declining sales," Guenter Froelich, Tristone Group president and CEO, said.

    Tristone linked the positive growth to its broad OEM customer portfolio in the different regional markets, but said it recognized the challenging overall market situation impacting all players.

    "Related to this, we are seeing a first example of an OEM trying to use their market position to ignore contractual obligations toward our group," the company said.

    Group earnings (EBIT) fell, mainly due to "the changed market environment" and the start-up costs for the company's new plants in the U.S. and India. The company did not provide earning figures.

    "As a consequence, we will be reducing our high investment level," Chief Finanical Officer Sonja Rossteuscher-Schuetze said.

    For the full year, Tristone expects sales to grow about 7 percent year-on-year to about $344 million.

    For 2020, the company eyes an ambitious 17 percent growth in sales to $402 million, mainly driven by ongoing start-ups based on booked business with the global OEMs in Europe, NAFTA, China and India.

    In August, the company's recently constructed production plant in Mooresville, N.C., started with serial production of parts for the first OEM customer in U.S.

    Further manufacturing start-ups are planned for the unit in the coming quarters.

    In June, Tristone opened its expanded facilities in Walbrzych, Poland, with a plastic plant as well as central engineering laboratory.

    In addition, the company is expanding hose production at the site, with plans to double manufacturing capacity in the coming years.

    The production plant in Poland supplies to global automotive passenger car customers including Ford, Volvo, RSA, Nissan, FCA, PSA, Daimler, BMW, Suzuki, JLR, and Ferrari.

    A spin-off of the former Fluid Automotive business unit of Trelleborg A.B. in July 2010, Tristone operated as a stand-alone company until February 2017 when it was acquired by the Zhongding Group.

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