Novem Car Interior Design
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1947 |
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Vorbach , Bavaria , Germany
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| management | Günter Brenner, Johannes Burtscher |
| Number of employees | 6,258 (as of March 31, 2019) |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.novem.com |
The Novem Group is an automotive supplier and supplier of trim parts and functional elements for vehicle interiors. It is active in the processing of precious wood , aluminum , wire mesh, carbon , piano lacquer, technical veneers and premium synthetics. The core business is interior parts and modules. The head office is in Vorbach . There are eleven locations worldwide in Germany , Italy , the Czech Republic , Slovenia , China , Mexico , Honduras and the United States .
Customers include the automobile manufacturers Audi , Alfa Romeo , BMW , Daimler , Ford , General Motors , Honda , Hyundai , Land Rover , Mini , Maserati , Nissan , Porsche , Tesla , Toyota , Volkswagen and Volvo .
The management currently consists of Günter Brenner and Johannes Burtscher.
Products and manufacturing processes
The products include interior parts (e.g. belt line, center console, closing and roof handles, gearshift frames, gear knobs, steering wheels, ashtray lids, cup holders and various frames and covers, instrument panels, door panels, and much more). The surfaces vary depending on your requirements between precious wood (e.g. root wood ), aluminum , wire mesh, carbon , premium synthetics, technical veneers or refinements with inlays . Depending on the material, the surfaces are high-gloss, silk-matt or open-pored. The range of aluminum surfaces manufactured using the screen printing process includes brushed, polished, anodized or milled haptics. The depth of the company's production process includes a. Flanging , caulking , gluing , machining processes , injection molding processes and forming processes .
With a market share of around 45% (as of 2010), the company is the world leader in the decorative parts market for precious wood parts.
Company history
- 1947: Ernst Pelz founded the company in Geretsried. Parts were manufactured for various applications in the automotive industry.
- 1953: The BMW 502 V8 is equipped with decorative parts made of open-pored royal wood.
- 1970s: equipment of the first BMW 7 series.
- 1990s: branches in the Czech Republic and Honduras are opened.
- 2007: Volkswagen uses LeanWood trim parts from Novem in the Passat. In the same year expansion to Asia and opening of a location in China.
- 2011: Novem opens a location in Mexico. Since 2011, Novem has been majority owned by the investment company Bregal Unternehmerkapital .
- 2015: Novem receives the General Motors Quality Supplier Excellence Award.
- 2016: Novem receives the Daimler Supplier Award.
- 2017: Novem receives the FCA EMEA Award.
Sales development in million euros (since 2012):
- Fiscal year 2012/13: 334
- Fiscal year 2013/14: 364
- Fiscal year 2014/15: 405
- Fiscal year 2015/16: 490
- Fiscal year 2016/17: 587
- Fiscal year 2017/18: 646
- Fiscal year 2018/19: 709
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Company presentation of the Novem Group