The automobile industry is the pillar industry of Liuzhou. As an important part of the automotive industry chain, auto parts manufacturers in various industrial parks in Liuzhou have actively responded to market conditions such as chip shortages and rising raw materials, and have focused on the target tasks in the first quarter, and launched the "first shot" of the battle to stabilize industrial operation.
Multi-channel acquisition
Solve the chip shortage
At about 3 p.m. on March 16, workers were busy working on the assembly line of Nexteer Automotive Systems (Liuzhou) Co., Ltd. in Liudong New District. The company's final assembly line will complete the production of nearly 30,000 units (sets) of automotive steering systems in March, and the production volume is equivalent to that of January and February combined.
This is an enterprise that officially built a factory and put into operation in Liudong New Area in 2015, and its business scope includes the design, research and development, and production of automotive steering systems (including energy-absorbing steering systems) and other products. Wang Zaixing, the company's director of operations, said that last year, the company's GDP reached 600 million yuan, and the output reached more than 500,000 units (sets), "this year may double, the gross domestic product is about 1.2 billion yuan, and the output reaches 1.2 million sets."
Employees in the assembly workshop of Nexteer Automotive Systems (Liuzhou) Co., Ltd. are busy working
It is understood that due to the shortage of chips this year, many automobile and auto parts manufacturers in Liuzhou have been affected by different ranges, and for this reason, enterprises have also taken different countermeasures. Wang Zaixing believes that for the shortage of chips, last year has been prejudged and prepared in advance, through technical verification, with different chips to match, to achieve the same function, so that you can obtain chip resources through multiple channels, alleviate the production reduction problem caused by chips.
Multi-provisioning
Resolve rising costs
Employees of Liuzhou Tianhai Mengli Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. are on the production line beam
Rising costs have recently been the biggest problem faced by automobile supporting manufacturers in industrial parks, and everyone is trying to actively cope with them. As one of the major auto parts manufacturers in Hexi High-tech Zone, Liuzhou Tianhai Mengli Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. business scope includes the production and sales of automotive wiring harnesses, distribution boxes, etc., due to the rising price of raw materials for imported bulk commodities copper, which has brought greater production pressure to the company.
At about 3 p.m. on March 17, the company's production manager Ou Xiangdong was inspecting the workshop to understand the latest production progress. He said that the company mainly supported the production line bundle for SAIC-GM-Wuling, Geely and other car companies, and last year's sales were close to 270 million yuan, up 33% year-on-year. Sales are expected to increase by 120% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2022 and are now 40% of our full-year target.
Although the production in the first quarter exceeded expectations, it still faced greater production difficulties and the production situation was still grim. Wu Yawei, the company's sales manager, said that due to the current fluctuations in the price and import of copper and other raw materials, the company adopted methods such as allocation from brother units within the group to avoid affecting the production task.
Overcome difficulties in orderly production
Complete the production target in the first quarter
In accordance with the development goals of the "14th Five-Year Plan for Industrial Development of Liuzhou City", by 2025, Liuzhou Will strive for high-quality industrial development and achieve the goal of a trillion-yuan industrial strong city. The city's industrial parks continue to develop steadily, and the total industrial output value accounts for 70% of the city's industry. There is 1 100-billion-level park, 4 50-billion-level parks, 2 20-billion-level parks, and 2 10-billion-level parks.
According to the key requirements of the plan for the development of the automobile industry, the key layout of the automobile industry is in Liudong New Area (Liuzhou National High-tech Zone) and Liuzhou Hexi High-tech Zone; the key layout of the auto parts industry is in Liudong New Area (Liuzhou National High-tech Zone), Yanghe Industrial New Area, Liuzhou Hexi High-tech Zone, Liujiang Industrial Park, and Luzhai Industrial Park. At present, there are 293 enterprises above the scale of automobile and auto parts in Liuzhou, some of which are distributed in different industrial parks.
According to the plan, this year, Liuzhou City's annual automobile production and sales exceeded 2.2 million, and strive to exceed 600,000 new energy vehicles. Although Liuzhou automobile and auto parts manufacturers encountered different degrees of difficulties in the first quarter, at present, the automobile and auto parts production enterprises in various industrial parks are actively taking countermeasures to overcome difficulties, produce in an orderly manner, and strive to complete the production target in the first quarter.