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Introduction to Hafei Motors

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Here are some pictures and info about Hafei Motors

THis info is from their official website

"Harbin Hafei Motor Co., LTD (referred to hereafter as Hafei Motor), a subsidiary of Harbin Aircraft Industry (Group) Ltd., is a leading minivan maker and a national small motor vehicles source in China.
¡¡¡¡Hafei Motor was incorporated with government approval on September 20, 1994 as a foreign joint venture company with assets of 4.4 billion CNY. It occupies an area of 1050,000 m2 and has a floor space of 350,000 m2. Further upgrading accomplished enabled welding, painting and final assembly operations to support two production lines running in parallel with an annual output of 300,000 units.

¡¡¡¡Hafei Motor has 5,000 employees including more than 100 senior engineering and administration staff and more than 600 middle engineering and administration staff, who are primarily engaged in development, production, marketing and sales of Hafei small vehicles in series and their parts and spares.

¡¡¡¡Hafei Motor has successfully developed more than 100 models of 7 series of small motor vehicles including mini trucks with one or two rows of seats in cab, minivans, and small passenger and sedan cars.
Songhuajiang China-Italy, a minivan jointly designed and developed with Pinifarina, created a new image with its exterior contour up to world standards for Chinese-made minivans as a perfect blending of performance and style and an excellent combination of traditional culture of China with splendor of Europe.

¡¡¡¡Hafei Motor has the first-rate research and development capability in China. It pioneered the efforts to apply CAD/CAS/CAE/CAM by adopting the advanced concurrent engineering technique and CAD paperless design of small vehicles in series. It has a large team of experienced process planners who are very good at both engineering design and on-site technical administration. Such routine business operations as production scheduling, engineering updating, accounting and inventory control are all computer-aided, and its distributors and appointed service stations are all wired, and quick and easy communication made the orderly dynamic administration of the company possible."


i like this hafei model...nice colour too



and this is their popular model hafei lobo
 

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#3 ·
more info...


Models in production:

- Ruiyi (1998- ) = small pick-up
- Minyi = small van
- Songhuajiang (1998- ) = Daewoo Tico
- Saima (2001- ) = car in the first picture
- Lobo (2002- ) = car in the third picture
- Saibao (2005- ) = new sedan by Hafei

Capacity: 200 000 cars / year

Workforce: 5000 people

Production:

- 2003: 32 000 passenger cars and 150 000 minivans
 
#12 ·
Sorry Hamdydr.
Yes I guess the English on that site is not working properly and is too limited for your purposes.
According to the People’s Daily back in March 2005, Dong’an Auto Engine Co., Ltd acquired a 100 percent stake of Harbin Aviation Industry Co., Ltd (Hafei).
So maybe you can try Dong'an at this email address:

hdmc@mail.hdmc-engine.com.cn

Dong'an Engine's Chinese website is:

http://www.hdmc-engine.com.cn/

Hafei has some very nice high quality cars to offer but it hasn't been the most pro-active in gaining overseas accounts. Maybe because its state-owned and you know as the saying goes, "good enough for government work".
These companies are all a part of Avi China and have close ties to Mitsubishi.
 
#21 · (Edited)
Brief Introduction to HF Automobile Group form their website.

Harbin HF Automobile Industry Group Company Ltd. is a backbone production enterprise and R&D base of automobile and automobile engine of China.

The group was established on March 7th 2006 and has enterprises such as HF automobile factory, Dongan engine factory, Dongan engine manufacturing company Ltd., Dongan Electro-mechanic company, Shenzhen and Weihai subsidiaries. The group has now more than 11,000 employees, among which more than 1,200 are middle and senior technique and managing personnel. The group covers an area of 1.48 million m2 and has a built area of 577,700 m2 and 11.14 billions RMB of total assets. At present, the group has an annual production capacity of 400,000 automobiles and 550,000 automobile engines. Up to the end of 2005, the group has produced and sold totally more than 1.43 million of various types automobiles of which 40,000 automobiles have been exported and 2.72 millions of engines. Up to now, the products of the group have been exported to more than 40 countries.

The group has its own automobile and automobile engine research and development center and various types of advanced experimental installations and equipment. For years, the technical cooperation with famous international enterprises of Italia, England, Austria and Japan has built in all around-way the technical contingent of the group. Now, the group has more than 2,000 many-sided engineers and technicians who give important play in research and production and in future development of the enterprise

Following the way of cooperation, introduction and independent development and persisting in enterprise technical advancement and innovation all along, the group has opened an independent innovation way suitable to its characteristics and its automobile products have passed from single mini-automobiles to economic and middle class cars. At present, the main automobile products of the group are of approximately one hundred varieties of 5 series comprised of mini-cars, minibus, mini-trucks, MPV and 3-box cars, divided into 3 categories of HF Zhongyi, HF Lobo and HF Saibao series designed and developed jointly with Italia, of HF Saima series developed with technology introduced from Mitsubishi of Japan and of series of HF Minyi, HF Ruiyi, HF Baili and Songhhuajiang minibus and mini-trucks, designed and developed by the group it-self.

The automobile engines of the group are of 3 series composed of several tens of varieties covering engines of all golden displacements from 0.8-2.0 liters and satisfying national laws and regulations requirements on emissions and fuel economy. The main engine models are DA468 series, DA471 series, and 4G1/4G9 series developed in cooperation with Mitsubishi of Japan. All these products features advanced technology, excellent power performance, reliable security, fuel economy and wide practicability.

The quality principles of the group is: “The customer the supreme, the quality the first, persisting in improving and seeking excellence.” The group has obtained successively the quality management system certificate, the environment management system certificate/professional health and security management system certificate and ISO/TS16949: 2002 quality management system certificate of automobile trade, issued by TüV Rheinland of Germany, assuring effectively the product reliability and the production conformity.

The group has its sales networks covering the whole country, adhering to principles of mutual benefit, mutual trust and mutual support, it promotes actively the sales way of selling- maintenance-spare parts-information “all four in one” and encourages exclusive selling of HF Automobile brand automobiles.

While providing customers with excellent products, the group has established special technique service stations allover the country to assure good service to customers in time. The group has earned trust of the vast customers with its top-quality products and in-time good service and thus it has established good market prestige.?

HF Automobile group wishes to cooperate faithfully with both Chinese and foreign merchants and together with the vast customers who have favor on HF automobiles, to go ahead hand in hand and to create jointly a glorious future.


Hafei Motors (哈飞汽车) was founded in 1950 and based in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. It was a subsidiary of Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC), a large military-airplane maker.

Originally, Hafei was just a repair and assembly shop, without much manufacturing. That changed in the mid-1990’s when Hafei signed a license agreement with Suzuki to manufacture the Suzuki Carry minivan.

Initially, Hafei sold these cars under the Songhuajiang brand, named after the Songhua River, which crosses Heilongjiang. Designation was HFJ. As Chinese carmakers are wont to do, Hafei soon made more variants of the Carry than Suzuki ever did. In 2002, the Songhuajiang name was dropped and Hafei Motors started selling under the Hafei brand.

In 1997 Hafei moved into real passenger cars with the Hafei Baili HFJ7090.


Songhuajiang HFJ6359
 
#25 · (Edited)
What is happening at Hafei ?

Forum friends, do any of you have any information/insight on what is happening at Hafei? It seems that production of their own minicars/vans have come to a halt, (with only OEM production of the Yuexiang V3 continuing), there are proposals for downsizing, and sales of Hafei-brand vehicles were actually down to 129 units in April. But there are also indications that Changan-Ford is interested in the facility.

Some related reports:
http://auto.qq.com/a/20140515/011208.htm
http://auto.hexun.com/2014-05-14/164753658.html
http://www.kaixian.tv/gd/2014/0514/5109949.html
 
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