The opening ceremony for Continental AG Qingdao factory was held by Continental AG at the Sino-German Ecopark, Qingdao on October 18. This factory, with total investment of about 240 Million Yuan (EUR 30 Million) and covering an area of 84 thousand m2, is mainly engaged in providing high-end rubber hoses used for passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles as well as solutions to vehicle fluid system.

The new Qingdao factory is the fourth production plant built by Continental AG in China for vehicle fluid application products. It is committed to the integration of global resources and capability to help upgrade China’s local auto industrial structure and regional economic development based on China’s auto market demand. Meanwhile, an increasing investment will be made in the coming years to develop this new factory into the biggest automobile hose production base in China and the Fluid Technology R&D Center in China is to be established next year.

As far as we know, advanced HFO-1234yf new refrigerant air-conditioning pipe, lightweight cooling water pipe applied to electrombiles and GPF pipeline conforming to national IV emission standard have been introduced to the new Qingdao factory. In addition, based on the existing production line and focusing on such business units as air-conditioning pipes, air intake and exhaust system pipes, heating/cooling pipes and engine and power transmission system used for passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles, this factory produces cooling system pipes, air-conditioning hoses, oil pipe, turbo hoses, GPF pipeline used for exhaust system and other core products, offers services of design, R&D and production from the hose to thermal management system as well as the systematic solutions to traditional vehicles and new-energy vehicles.