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Joint Venture
In addition to its own numerous production facilities,
Autoneum also successfully participates in joint ventures. Autoneum operates
six joint ventures around the world with its long-standing Japanese partner and
automobile supplier Nittoku for the supply of Japanese OEMs in North America
and Asia. In addition, Autoneum cooperates with local partners in growth markets
such as Turkey, South Africa, Thailand and South Korea, thereby ensuring
optimum global presence as well as further growth.
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Kaizen
The term “Kaizen” originates from Japanese and means “change
for the better”. Kaizen is based on the principle of continuous progress by means of
a large number of individual measures. In 2015, Autoneum’s employees around
the world submitted more than 10 000 improvement proposals including, among
others, optimization possibilities for production processes.
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