帝人收購Inapal以擴大歐洲汽車業務
帝人宣布已同意收購葡萄牙汽車復合材料供應商Inapal Plasticos。Inapal的股份將由帝人集團在荷蘭的控股公司帝人控股收購。
在滿意完成慣例成交條件（包括監管部門批準）后，收購于2018年8月初完成。
Inapal總部位于葡萄牙波爾圖的Leca do Balio，是汽車和重型卡車行業復合材料部件的一級供應商。該公司的能力包括使用各種材料和工藝的A級車身板，結構和底部部件，包括板材模塑料（SMC），碳纖維SMC，預浸壓縮成型（PCM），直接長纖維熱塑性塑料（D-LFT） ）和玻璃纖維墊熱塑性塑料（GMT）。該公司在葡萄牙擁有兩個生產基地，服務于各種歐洲OEM客戶，包括捷豹，路虎，寶馬，梅賽德斯，大眾和賓利。
除了汽車和重型卡車業務外，Inapal還為供暖和制冷行業提供零部件，并為公共汽車和鐵路行業提供乘客座椅組件。該公司2017年的銷售額為3190萬歐元（3700萬美元）。
“我們正在利用我們的輕質，強大，高性能材料和集成復合材料技術作為我們中期管理計劃轉型戰略的重點之一，”帝人有限公司總裁兼席執行官Jun Suzuki表示。
“收購Continental Structural Plastics（CSP）打開一扇新窗口，將我們定位為汽車市場的高性能復合材料的一級供應商。7月，我們宣布收購JH Ziegler GmbH（Ziegler）開設新窗口，這是德國的汽車內飾材料供應商?，F在收購Inapal使我們能夠兌現我們對利益相關方的承諾，以便在范圍內擴展我們的技術，包括在歐洲。我們將通過利用CSP，Ziegler和Inapal的業務能力尋求協同效應，繼續發展成為多材料組件的供應商。它還使我們能夠展示我們作為一個提供新價值的企業為未來社會發展的承諾。“
CSP席執行官史蒂夫魯尼補充說：“Inapal的加入使CSP成為輕量級復合材料行業的領導者。” “有了這個，我們可以說我們是上大的汽車行業輕質復合材料部件供應商之一，我們的戰略位置是為了滿足客戶的需求，我們已準備好迎接今天行業客戶的快速變化。“
帝人預計，到2030年，其汽車復合材料業務銷售額將達到約17億歐元（20億美元）。該公司現在有能力為上大多數主要地區（包括北美，歐洲和亞洲）的客戶提供服務，并與各大汽車OEM。
帝人將繼續加強Inapal的業務，發展擴張機會，投資增長并為所有利益相關者（即員工，合作伙伴和客戶）創造價值。
繼2017年收購CSP后，帝人致力于在范圍內擴展其汽車業務。技術發展包括Sereebo，上個碳纖維增強熱塑性塑料（CFRTP）的大規模生產技術，以及歐洲的TENAX Part via Preform（PvP）。PvP由該集團的核心碳纖維業務Teijin Carbon Europe GmbH開發，是一種材料加工技術，可以高效生產熱固性碳纖維增強塑料（CFRP）。PvP被歐洲原始設備制造商認可為一級技術，并作為當前汽車平臺的結構應用而投入生產。后，CSP位于法國Maine-et-LoirePouancé的歐洲工廠近宣布將安裝板材模塑料（SMC）生產線，使該公司獲得。
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Teijin announces that it has agreed to acquire Inapal Plasticos, an automotive composite supplier in Portugal. The shares of Inapal will be purchased by Teijin Holdings, the Teijin Group's holding company in the Netherlands.
The acquisition was completed at the beginning of August 2018, following the satisfactory completion of customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval.
Inapal, headquartered in Leca do Balio, Porto, Portugal, is a Tier One supplier of composite components to the automotive and heavy truck industries. The company’s capabilities include Class A body panels, structural and underbody components using a variety of materials and processes, including sheet molding compound (SMC), carbon fiber SMC, pre-preg compression molding (PCM), direct long fiber thermoplastic (D-LFT) and glass mat thermoplastic (GMT). The company has two manufacturing locations in Portugal serving a variety of European OEM customers including Jaguar, Land Rover, BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and Bentley.
In addition to its automotive and heavy truck business, Inapal supplies components to the heating and cooling industry, as well as passenger seating components to the bus and rail industries.The company had sales of EUR 31.9 million (USD 37 million) in 2017.
“We are leveraging our lightweight, strong, high-performance materials and integrated composite technologies as one of the key focuses of the transformation strategies for our medium-term management plan,” said Jun Suzuki, president and CEO, Teijin Limited.
“The acquisition of Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) Opening a new window positioned us as a Tier One supplier of high-performance composites to the global automotive market. In July, we announced the acquisition of J.H. Ziegler GmbH (Ziegler) Opening a new window, a leading supplier of automotive interior materials in Germany. Now the acquisition of Inapal enables us to deliver on our promise to stakeholders to expand our technologies on a global basis, including in Europe. We will seek synergies by leveraging the business capabilities of CSP, Ziegler and Inapal to continue to grow as a supplier of multi-material components. It also enables us to demonstrate our commitment to evolve for future society as an enterprise that delivers new value.”
“The addition of Inapal positions CSP well as a global leader in the lightweight composites industry,” added Steve Rooney, CEO of CSP. “With this, we can truly say we are among the world’s largest suppliers of lightweight composite components to the automotive industry, we are strategically located to meet our customers’ needs, and we’re ready for the rapid changes that are taking place in the industry today.”
Teijin expects its automotive composite business sales to reach approximately €1.7 billion ($2 billion) by 2030. The company now has the ability to serve customers in most major regions of the world, including North America, Europe and Asia, and has established business with every major global automotive OEM.
Teijin will continue to enhance Inapal’s operations, developing expansion opportunities, investing in growth and creating value for all stakeholders, namely employees, partners and clients.
Following the acquisition of CSP in 2017, Teijin has committed to expand its automotive capabilities globally. Technology developments include Sereebo, the world's first mass -production technology for carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP), and in Europe, TENAX Part via Preform (PvP). Developed by Teijin Carbon Europe GmbH, the group’s core carbon-fibers business, PvP is a material process technology that enables the highly efficient production of thermoset carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP). PvP is recognized as a Tier One technology by European OEMs and is in production as a structural application on a current automotive platform. Finally, CSP’s European facility in Pouancé, Maine-et-Loire, France, recently announced that it will be installing a sheet molding compound (SMC) line, making the company’s patented, award-winning composite material technologies readily available to customers in Europe.
