WABCO Holdings Inc., a global supplier of technologies to improve the safety and efficiency of commercial vehicles, has been awarded a new long-term agreement by a major manufacturer of commercial vehicles headquartered in Europe. WABCO will supply brake actuator technologies for a new truck platform that will enter new markets in South-East Asia. Series production is expected to begin in 2016 at the customer’s plant in Thailand.
Superbly designed by WABCO engineers in India, these brake actuators have been optimally adapted for the customer’s local product applications in the South-East Asian region. In addition, WABCO engineers in India successfully address regulations requiring locally produced content value in this region.
At the same time, WABCO will supply its products from its factory at Rayong in Thailand. Opened in 2013, it is WABCO’s newest factory within its global manufacturing network in 11 countries. Though newly opened, the Rayong factory already delivers superlative quality through zero defects for every million parts produced.
“This new long-term contract demonstrates how we have further leveraged the global power of WABCO through outstanding engineering and design capabilities in India combined with newly-established world-class manufacturing capacity located in Thailand,” said Leon Liu, WABCO President, Truck, Bus & Car Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) Division. “What differentiates WABCO is the power of our globalization and, as anticipated, we are helping a major European commercial vehicle maker to further expand its success in South-East Asia.”
In addition, under the extension of an existing long-term agreement, WABCO’s Rayong factory will continue through 2021 to equip the customer’s standardized medium- and heavy-duty truck platform, which is manufactured at its plants in Thailand, India and China.
WABCO has well-established relationship with customers in Europe, India, Japan, and North and South America. It supplies electronic control systems and solutions for braking, engine transmission and chassis applications that improve vehicle safety and efficiency.