Automotive lighting

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Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1999
Seat Reutlingen
Number of employees 20,200 worldwide (2017)
sales around 3.6 billion euros (2017)
Branch Automotive supplier
Website http://www.al-lighting.de

Automotive Lighting (AL) is a German automotive supplier based in Reutlingen . It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Marelli Group and its core business is the development and production of vehicle headlights and taillights .

history

The company emerged in 1999 as a joint venture from the Lighting Group of Magneti Marelli and K2 Lichttechnik from Bosch . In 2003 Magneti Marelli acquired the remaining company shares. After changes in the shareholder structure, the company has been a subsidiary and division of the Marelli Group since 2019 .

Innovations

  • In 1991 the company, which at that time was still operating under the name of Bosch , introduced xenon lights (low beam) to the automotive market with BMW with the 7 series .
  • In 2007, AL presented the first full- LED headlight in the Audi R8 , which in 2008 received the red dot award in the product design category.
  • In 2014, the laser high beam was introduced in the headlight of the Audi R8 LMX
  • In 2018, the first headlight with DMD micro-mirror technology was launched in a limited Mercedes Maybach variant.
  • In 2019, the Audi e-tron Sportback was the first headlight in a production vehicle to be equipped with micromirror technology (DMD).

Locations

Automotive Lighting is represented at 30 locations worldwide, which the company assigns to the following business regions:

North America :

Mexico: Juárez , Tepotzotlán , Toluca
USA: Clarkston , Detroit , Pulaski

South America :

Brazil: Contagem

Europe :

Germany: Brotterode , Reutlingen
France: Saint-Julien, Trappes
Italy: Tolmezzo , Venaria Reale
Poland: Sosnowiec
Romania: Cluj-Napoca
Russia: Ryazan
Spain: Barberà del Vallès , Barcelona
Czech Republic: Jihlava
Turkey: Bursa

Asia :

China: Changchun , Foshan , Shanghai , Wuhu , Xiaogan
India: Manesar, Pune, Rewari
Japan: Yokohama
Malaysia: Penang

References

  1. ↑ auto motor und sport - Audi: Full-LED headlights for R8 ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.auto-motor-und-sport.de
  2. ↑ Florian Langenscheidt , Bernd Venohr (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German world market leaders. The premier class of German companies in words and pictures . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86936-221-2 .
  3. ↑ The Audi R8 LMX - the world's first series model with laser high beam. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ World premiere in the Mercedes-Maybach S-Class: DIGITAL LIGHT: The light of the future hits the road. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ A Visit to Marelli Automotive Lighting HQ. In: DVN. January 28, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ a b c d e f The company's business regions only roughly coincide with the continent that gives it its name. As a result, the assignment of some locations does not correspond to their geographical location.
  7. ↑ Company homepage , see: "AL Locations". Automotive Lighting, accessed October 29, 2019 .

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