Rehau Builds New Plant in Győr

During the next few months, Rehau will be building a new plant in Győr, Hungary, around 120 kilometers northwest of Budapest. The intention is to take this production site into service in 2013. It is located on the international industrial estate at Györ and will exclusively manufacture system components for the automotive industry. Rehau, the globally active polymer specialist with headquarters in Rehau, Bavaria, is investing around 60 million Euro in this new building right at the gates of the Audi plant, thereby extending its overall automotive sector production capacity. Around 200 new jobs are to be created.

“The new production plant in Győr is part of our international growth strategy”, says Niklas Braun, Chairman of the Automotive Division Executive Board at Rehau.
“The decision to purchase the plot and build the new plant is part of our international growth strategy”, explains Niklas Braun, Chairman of the Automotive Division Executive Board at Rehau. As a development partner and systems supplier, Rehau has been impressing customers all around the world with reliability and quality for decades. The new building in Hungary, Mr Braun added, is being built with the very latest environmental and commercial considerations in mind.

For Audi, the polymer specialist has been producing bumpers for various models at Györ since 2005, using a 3-shift system, and delivering them to the car manufacturer’s production line on a just-in-time basis. “This move to our own production facility on a more than 26,000 m² site is due to orders for bumper systems for the new Audi TT and Q7, for which we require extra capacity”, explains Steffen Gruber, Key Account Manager at Rehau. In future, the intention is to injection-mold and paint the front and rear bumper systems for both models prior to local final assembly in Györ. Up to now, the exterior body parts for these models were manufactured at the Viechtach plant in Lower Bavaria. Thanks to new model start-ups, capacity at this plant is fully utilized, which is why those in charge sought an alternative. “Production on site in Hungary, right at our customer’s own gates, brings many advantages”, emphasizes Mr Gruber. “Because, in the automotive sector, call times are extremely short.”
The centerpiece of the new machinery is the modular painting plant based on a CO2 cleaning method, developed by Rehau itself to be particularly friendly to the environment and to do without the consumption of precious water. This plant’s predecessors have already proved their worth at our production sites in Viechtach and Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Up to 200 new jobs will be created at the new Győr plant, in which Rehau is investing a total of approximately 60 million Euro. When production commences in 2013, a workforce of 150 will work on a 3-shift system at the production facility. These will be backed up by around 50 administrative staff.

Up to now, Rehau has employed more than 40 people in Hungary, some at the current Györ logistics centre but mostly at the Budapest sales office, from which the polymer specialist primarily markets energy efficient construction sector system solutions as well as design elements for the furniture industry. After a good 20 years of commitment to this eastern European country, Rehau is now laying the foundations of its first production site there, thereby increasing its global automotive sector production capacity to a total of 15 facilities.