AWS Electronics Group wins significant automotive business

AWS CEO Paul Deehan comments: "We have won several significant automotive programmes recently, which has led to very fast growth at our Namestovo facility in Slovakia. The latest deal is for LED lighting products that go into high end vehicles, so the business is both high volume and high quality."

AWS has continued to invest and grow the Namestovo plant to take advantage of such opportunities with Tier 1 auto suppliers benefiting from low-cost manufacturing closer to their end-user factories than SE Asia. The Slovakian facility uses exactly the same processes, equipment and management systems that AWS has developed for its UK plant, which also handles Fast Track and NPI business as well as through life MRO. Therefore quality can be guaranteed. But the total manufacturing costs in Slovakia are lower - in fact they are lower than some parts of the Far East - therefore volume orders that are cost sensitive as well as high spec can be accommodated.

Deehan adds: "We expect to see a large amount of business - both from the automotive sector and elsewhere - reshoring to Europe as customers understand that it is possible to combine high quality and efficient cost models as long as you choose the correct manufacturing partner."

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