帝人收购Inapal以扩大欧洲汽车业务
帝人宣布已同意收购葡萄牙汽车复合材料供应商Inapal Plasticos。Inapal的股份将由帝人集团在荷兰的控股公司帝人控股收购。
在满意完成惯例成交条件（包括监管部门批准）后，收购于2018年8月初完成。
Inapal总部位于葡萄牙波尔图的Leca do Balio，是汽车和重型卡车行业复合材料部件的一级供应商。该公司的能力包括使用各种材料和工艺的A级车身板，结构和底部部件，包括板材模塑料（SMC），碳纤维SMC，预浸压缩成型（PCM），直接长纤维热塑性塑料（D-LFT） ）和玻璃纤维垫热塑性塑料（GMT）。该公司在葡萄牙拥有两个生产基地，服务于各种欧洲OEM客户，包括捷豹，路虎，宝马，梅赛德斯，大众和宾利。
除了汽车和重型卡车业务外，Inapal还为供暖和制冷行业提供零部件，并为公共汽车和铁路行业提供乘客座椅组件。该公司2017年的销售额为3190万欧元（3700万美元）。
“我们正在利用我们的轻质，强大，高性能材料和集成复合材料技术作为我们中期管理计划转型战略的重点之一，”帝人有限公司总裁兼席执行官Jun Suzuki表示。
“收购Continental Structural Plastics（CSP）打开一扇新窗口，将我们定位为汽车市场的高性能复合材料的一级供应商。7月，我们宣布收购JH Ziegler GmbH（Ziegler）开设新窗口，这是德国的汽车内饰材料供应商。现在收购Inapal使我们能够兑现我们对利益相关方的承诺，以便在范围内扩展我们的技术，包括在欧洲。我们将通过利用CSP，Ziegler和Inapal的业务能力寻求协同效应，继续发展成为多材料组件的供应商。它还使我们能够展示我们作为一个提供新价值的企业为未来社会发展的承诺。“
CSP席执行官史蒂夫鲁尼补充说：“Inapal的加入使CSP成为轻量级复合材料行业的领导者。” “有了这个，我们可以说我们是上大的汽车行业轻质复合材料部件供应商之一，我们的战略位置是为了满足客户的需求，我们已准备好迎接今天行业客户的快速变化。“
帝人预计，到2030年，其汽车复合材料业务销售额将达到约17亿欧元（20亿美元）。该公司现在有能力为上大多数主要地区（包括北美，欧洲和亚洲）的客户提供服务，并与各大汽车OEM。
帝人将继续加强Inapal的业务，发展扩张机会，投资增长并为所有利益相关者（即员工，合作伙伴和客户）创造价值。
继2017年收购CSP后，帝人致力于在范围内扩展其汽车业务。技术发展包括Sereebo，上个碳纤维增强热塑性塑料（CFRTP）的大规模生产技术，以及欧洲的TENAX Part via Preform（PvP）。PvP由该集团的核心碳纤维业务Teijin Carbon Europe GmbH开发，是一种材料加工技术，可以高效生产热固性碳纤维增强塑料（CFRP）。PvP被欧洲原始设备制造商认可为一级技术，并作为当前汽车平台的结构应用而投入生产。后，CSP位于法国Maine-et-LoirePouancé的欧洲工厂近宣布将安装板材模塑料（SMC）生产线，使该公司获得。
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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.
