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Overview from http://www.csvw.com/csvw/en/company/intro/index.htm
Landmarks from http://www.csvw.com/csvw/en/company/history/index.htm
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Overview
Located in Anting International Auto City on the northwest outskirts of Shanghai, Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. (SVW) occupies a total area of 3,330,000 m2, with a floor space of 900,000 m2. Currently having a product lineup made up of six series out of five passenger car platforms of Santana B2, Santana3000, Passat, Polo, Gol and Touran, SVW is one of the largest car-making bases in China with an annual production capacity of over 450,000 units.
Growing Business
Established in March 1985, SVW is the first car-making joint venture after China began its reform and opened to the outside world. The Chinese shareholders own 50% of the interest and the German shareholders own the other 50%, and the term of the joint venture contract was 25 years. On April 12, 2002, the shareholders signed an agreement to extend the contract for another 20 years till 2030.
The birth of SVW put an end to Chinas history of making cars behind closed doors at a low technical level and blazed a path of utilizing foreign capital and introducing overseas technology for an accelerated development of the Chinese car-making industry. In the past 20 years, SVW kept accumulating capital on its own and expanding the business without a stop, setting a new mode of development for the Chinese car-making industry. With many capital increases over time, the registered capital of SVW has reached RMB 10 billion from the initial RMB160 million in 1985, and the total assets have. increased from RMB 980 million to RMB35.97 billion.
SVWs success has greatly promoted the growth of the Chinese car-making industry. While expanding its production scale, SVW started the Santana localization endeavor to revitalize the Chinese parts supply industry. This grand trans-regional, inter-departmental, cross-industry and systematic project has helped a large number of local parts suppliers achieve their technical advancement, thus laying a solid foundation for manufacturing parts and components up to the international standard. Now over 400 domestic suppliers are able to supply SVW with locally made parts. SVW-accepted parts makers are now accepted by other carmakers as their parts suppliers, and some of them have become suppliers for global sourcing manufacturers.
In the transnational, cross-cultural, cross-century and cross-technology background, SVWs German and Chinese partners cooperate in a pioneering spirit, and the company was commended as an example of successful Sino-German cooperation. SVW has been given the title of Top Ten Joint Venture in China and led the list of The Biggest 500 Foreign-invested Enterprises in China for eignt consecutive years, and it has been awarded the honor of National Quality and Profit-making Company for nine years in succession. SVW was the first car-maker to receive National Quality Management Award issued by Chinas Quality Management Association for the first time. Over the years SVW has set quite a number of records in the Chinese passenger vehicle industry.
On July 5, 2005, the 3 millionth SVW-made car rolled off the line, making SVW the first carmaker in China to realize a total output of 3 million cars.
Advanced Facilities
With the completion of the three technical transformation projects, SVW has formed a production layout of four major production areas, i.e. Car Plant 1, Car Plant 2, Car Plant 3 and Engine Plant, plus a technical center. The company boasts a lot of world-class manufacturing facilities and techniques, i.e. the modular assembly line and online laser inspection equipment that ensure a stable manufacturing of high quality products, the fully automatic press lines plus the two 2000T high-precision multi-work bay press machines unique in China that ensure manufacturing precision; a good number of welding robots and modern welding technologies that ensure the rigidity and precision of car bodies; double galvanized sheet metal and modern waxing technique plus advanced car painting technique and automatic painting equipments that lengthen the anti-corrosion period of the car.
Overview from http://www.csvw.com/csvw/en/company/intro/index.htm
Landmarks from http://www.csvw.com/csvw/en/company/history/index.htm
Enjoy Reading:thumb:
Overview
Located in Anting International Auto City on the northwest outskirts of Shanghai, Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. (SVW) occupies a total area of 3,330,000 m2, with a floor space of 900,000 m2. Currently having a product lineup made up of six series out of five passenger car platforms of Santana B2, Santana3000, Passat, Polo, Gol and Touran, SVW is one of the largest car-making bases in China with an annual production capacity of over 450,000 units.
Growing Business
Established in March 1985, SVW is the first car-making joint venture after China began its reform and opened to the outside world. The Chinese shareholders own 50% of the interest and the German shareholders own the other 50%, and the term of the joint venture contract was 25 years. On April 12, 2002, the shareholders signed an agreement to extend the contract for another 20 years till 2030.
The birth of SVW put an end to Chinas history of making cars behind closed doors at a low technical level and blazed a path of utilizing foreign capital and introducing overseas technology for an accelerated development of the Chinese car-making industry. In the past 20 years, SVW kept accumulating capital on its own and expanding the business without a stop, setting a new mode of development for the Chinese car-making industry. With many capital increases over time, the registered capital of SVW has reached RMB 10 billion from the initial RMB160 million in 1985, and the total assets have. increased from RMB 980 million to RMB35.97 billion.
SVWs success has greatly promoted the growth of the Chinese car-making industry. While expanding its production scale, SVW started the Santana localization endeavor to revitalize the Chinese parts supply industry. This grand trans-regional, inter-departmental, cross-industry and systematic project has helped a large number of local parts suppliers achieve their technical advancement, thus laying a solid foundation for manufacturing parts and components up to the international standard. Now over 400 domestic suppliers are able to supply SVW with locally made parts. SVW-accepted parts makers are now accepted by other carmakers as their parts suppliers, and some of them have become suppliers for global sourcing manufacturers.
In the transnational, cross-cultural, cross-century and cross-technology background, SVWs German and Chinese partners cooperate in a pioneering spirit, and the company was commended as an example of successful Sino-German cooperation. SVW has been given the title of Top Ten Joint Venture in China and led the list of The Biggest 500 Foreign-invested Enterprises in China for eignt consecutive years, and it has been awarded the honor of National Quality and Profit-making Company for nine years in succession. SVW was the first car-maker to receive National Quality Management Award issued by Chinas Quality Management Association for the first time. Over the years SVW has set quite a number of records in the Chinese passenger vehicle industry.
On July 5, 2005, the 3 millionth SVW-made car rolled off the line, making SVW the first carmaker in China to realize a total output of 3 million cars.
Advanced Facilities
With the completion of the three technical transformation projects, SVW has formed a production layout of four major production areas, i.e. Car Plant 1, Car Plant 2, Car Plant 3 and Engine Plant, plus a technical center. The company boasts a lot of world-class manufacturing facilities and techniques, i.e. the modular assembly line and online laser inspection equipment that ensure a stable manufacturing of high quality products, the fully automatic press lines plus the two 2000T high-precision multi-work bay press machines unique in China that ensure manufacturing precision; a good number of welding robots and modern welding technologies that ensure the rigidity and precision of car bodies; double galvanized sheet metal and modern waxing technique plus advanced car painting technique and automatic painting equipments that lengthen the anti-corrosion period of the car.