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Domestic sales among South Korea’s five main automakers increased by 9.5% to 130,000 vehicles in April, from 119,000 units in the same month of last year,
In December 2013, GM decided to pull the Korean-built Chevrolet range out of Europe, saddling GM Korea with 150,000 units of excess capacity.
Detlef Decker is the new head of Bertrandt’s lighting team in Wolfsburg. After studying electrical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig, he started at Hella in 1984. In different expert and management functions, he covered R&D responsibilities for lighting technology and technical marketing with a strong focus on LED and optical systems. At the beginning of 2011 he joined Bertrandt and took the opportunity to extend the lighting team in the Stuttgart area in terms of competence and size.
DVN: Could you present your new company, the organisation, the strengths, and the customers?
Detlef Decker: With more than 11,000 employees at 46 locations Bertrandt is one of Europe’s leading engineering specialists. The decentralised structure with subsidiaries close to our customers covers the entire value chain of product design and development. Bertrandt is supporting all big European OEMs and tier-1 and -2 suppliers.
DVN: How do you think Bertrandt can help the lighting players?
DD: We are supporting the complete development process in automobile lighting with our experts. Our competences are mechanical, thermal and optical system design, simulation, visualisation and testing. Our lighting teams work at locations close to our customers in Germany and France.
DVN: New lighting technologies bring change in the value chain. Can Bertrandt be positively involved in this trend?
DD : Definitely yes, the increasing complexity of the new lighting technologies requires the pooling and merging of all capabilities. A company like Bertrandt focused exclusively on the engineering process can cover this jointly with resources, flexibility and competences. The significantly growing of our lighting teams in size and competence within the recent years confirms this trend.
Adaptive driving beam (or glare-free high beam) is, at least in principle, the long-awaited reconciliation to the age-old headlighting conundrum of too much glare on high beam vs.
Up to now, vehicles in Taiwan have generally been equipped with “European” (UN)-spec lighting systems, though some imported cars had US-spec equipment.
Mercedes-Benz USA are recalling about 284,000 C-class sedans in the United States and Canada because an electrical issue could cause the rear lamps to dim or fail,
In the past few weeks, we’ve seen encouraging announcements from several companies indicating that OLED rear lamps may come sooner than we think.
BMW’s new X5 bristles with high-technology Hella lighting. The rear lamps, for example, are fully realised in LED technology with three-dimensional, background diffuse
Cree have announced Q3-14 revenues of $405m, a 16% increase from their year-ago sales. And Royal Philips, in their Q1-14 release, are reporting their lighting division
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