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LISI 2012
LISI AUTOMOTIVE
Pursuit of action plans …
Following on from 2011, the teams at LISI AUTOMOTIVE
concentrated on the major action plans in the strategic
plan.
In the commercial area
, operations were initiated in three
main directions:
• The optimization of the demands for productivity via
the price/volume balance. These customer demands
were offset in the majority by the reduction in losses on
the most loss-making products.
• The pursuit of the actions undertaken with German
customers in the area of marketing, particularly the
participation by LISI AUTOMOTIVE in the trade shows in
Stuttgart and the IZB inWolfsburg and the organization
of numerous “Techdays”.
In the technical area
, for sites were qualified by Formel
Q audits by the Volkswagen Group. The ramp up of new
products in the “Tier One” Business Group (BG) enabled it
to be the sole Business Group in the automotive division
to see its sales improve in 2012.
In the industrial area
, themajor projects of 2011 continued
at the same rhythm. Amongst these, we can cite the
specialization of the plants at Delle and at Saint-Florent,
integrated into the “Screw Fastener” plan, the transfer of
parts from the plant at Kierspe (Germany) to Fuenlabrada
(Spain) to provide a better balance to the production at
each site, the continuation of the transfer of the produc-
tion of guide bars from our plant at Melisey in France to
Cejc in the Czech republic and even the transformations
of the wire drawing unit at Grandvillars, which will allow
for the reintegration of an additional 20,000 tons of wire
in the next three years.
The entirety of the industrial operations of LISI
AUTOMOTIVE resulted in total capital investments for
the financial year of €28 million, representing 6.6% of the
sales revenues.
… And new projects
A new management team was put in place. For the
recovery plan for LISI AUTOMOTIVE, it refocuses its action
on the very operational projects from the last two years.
Amongst the projects included in the trajectory of the
previous actions…
•
The recovery of the sites in difficulty
, particularly that
at Puiseux in the clip fastener business, at the source
of the majority of the negative performance in 2012.
The new competitiveness plan concerning the drastic
reduction of expenses will be closely followed throu-
ghout the coming months.
•
The optimization of the industrial equipment of the
division
which is essentially based on the achievement
of the specialization plans cited previously, as well as
on the restructuring of the bolt manufacturing plants
which are almost entirely at the service of the French
manufacturers.
The structural difficulties of these latter make it impos-
sible to maintain the three LISI AUTOMOTIVE plants
dedicated to this family of products. Hence, a plan to
combine the “bolt” activities on the two sites at Dasle
and at La Ferté Fresnel, involving the closure over time of
the plant at Thiant (107 employees concerned), as well as
measures relating to the Employment Preservation Plan
were presented to the Central Works Committee of LISI
AUTOMOTIVE Former during an information and consul-
tation meeting which was held on February 13, 2013.
Reinforcement of resources
in China
In 2013, LISI AUTOMOTIVE put in place a “China
Department”bringing together the interests of the various
Business Groups. The installation of the first machining
and rectification operations at Shanghai, together with
the first commercial successes recorded in 2012 in
Beijing, in particular with DPCA, support the ramp up of
the division in China, a country which has become the
durable worldwide leader for sales and for the production
of automobiles.
A SIGNIFICANT
INDUSTRIAL CHALLENGE
