Continental moves Qingdao investment to Sino-German Ecopark

A new plant in Qingdao, in which auto supplier company Continental has invested, has been relocated and reopened in the Sino-German Ecopark.

With a total investment of approximately RMB 240 million (around 30 million Euros) and an area of approximately 84,000 sqm, the new plant in Qingdao provides high quality hose products and mobile fluid system solutions for passenger cars and commercial vehicles.

The new plant is also committed to integrating global resources and capabilities to facilitate structural upgrade for China’s local automotive industry and regional economic development based on the needs of the country’s automotive market.

In order to meet energy conservation and environmental protection requirements of the automotive industry in recent years, the new plant in Qingdao has introduced world-leading technologies including advanced air conditioning hoses using new refrigerant HFO-1234yf.

It has also introduced lightweight cooling water hoses suitable for electric vehicles and GPF hoses meeting the National IV standards, bringing professional mobile fluid solutions to new energy vehicle manufacturers.

Meanwhile, with the existing production lines, the new plant will produce core products such as cooling system lines, air-conditioning hoses, oil lines, turbocharger lines, exhaust system GPF lines, etc. for both passenger cars and commercial vehicles.

It will also provide design, R&D and production of products from hose lines to thermal management systems, offering systematic solutions for conventional and new energy vehicles.

Song Qi, Head of Continental’s division ContiTech in China: “Thanks to the cooperation opportunity created by the business-enabling environment in Shandong, we will continue to invest in the Qingdao plant in the next few years.

“We plan to build our Technology R&D Center for hoses in the new Qingdao plant next year, developing it into the largest automotive hose line production site in China.”