Hungarian automotive industry: week 12 2017 edition
Kravtex-Kühne Group unveils new, lengthened city bus, automotive suppliers set to create jobs in Kecskemét and Eger. Let’s recap what the 12th week this year brought in Hungary’s automotive sector.
Manufacturers
The Kravtex-Kühne Group, Hungary’s largest bus manufacturers, have unveiled a new, lengthened city bus. With the Credo Econell 13 CiTY, the Kravtex-Kühne Group were the first to create a low-floor, lightweight bus that offers an uncompromising solution for reducing the costs of traditionally costly urban transport.
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Suppliers
Hi-Lex Hungary Kábelrendszer Gyártó Kft., the Hungarian manufacturing site of Japanese Hi-Lex, is developing new-generation window winder systems. The company has received a HUF 155.7m (€0.5m) grant for the HUF 362.4m (€1.16m) investment from Széchenyi 2020 funds in a project called “Supporting Business R&D&I Activities”.
Melinda Topolcsik has been appointed as CEO at Bridgestone Tatabánya. Prior to her appointment at Bridgestone, Ms. Topolcsik held executive positions at the Hungarian subsidiaries of various global companies.
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ElringKlinger will set up their latest European manufacturing sites in Kecskemét. The construction of new 10,000-sqm manufacturing unit has already begun, while the production of door modules is set to start in late-2017.
ZF Hungária Kft.’s new investment will allow the Eger-based subsidiary to expand its manufacturing activities with the production of eight-speed automatic transmissions for passenger cars, adding at least 770 new employees to its payroll.
Service providers
The Hungarian government has decided to allocate a HUF 177m (€0.57m) aid to support the development of Győr-Pér Airport.
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The cabinet has also announced to build a new link road between the M1 motorway and Pápa. Thanks to the upcoming railway and road developments, 900 kilometres of railway and 900 kilometres of expressway will be built by 2022.
There are only six aspects that differentiate good packaging solutions from inept ones. With recent industrial developments, packaging has been gaining more and more importance, which is why it is of key importance that companies shift more attention to this area.
Zoltán Tóth of Nefab Packaging Hungary Kft. told us in an interview last week which are the most common errors in the design of packaging solutions.
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Education
Students from ELTE University has won the European round of a noted competition of the oil industry, and they will have the chance to represent Europe at the finals, to be held in the U.S.
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AAPG, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, held the European final of their petroleum research competition in Prague on May 9-10, 2017. For the first time in its history, the European round of the Imperial Barrel Awards (IBA) has been won by MSc geologist and geophisicist students from ELTE.
