AUTOMOTIVE
              
            
            
              
                Threaded fasteners
              
            
            
              Screws, nuts and washers for
            
            
              • engines and engine housings
            
            
              • chassis,
            
            
              • suspension
            
            
              • vehicle interiors
            
            
              • electrical connections
            
            
              
                Clip solutions
              
            
            
              Metal and plastics for:
            
            
              • pipes and cables
            
            
              • interior and exterior trim
            
            
              • body in white
            
            
              • multipurpose subassemblies for
            
            
              the automotive and manufacturing
            
            
              industry
            
            
              
                Mechanical safety
              
            
            
              
                components
              
            
            
              for
            
            
              • seatbelts
            
            
              • seat mechanisms
            
            
              • disc brakes
            
            
              • airbags
            
            
              • engines and gearboxes
            
            
              
                THE FLAGSHIP PRODUCTS
              
            
            
              
                MAJOR CUSTOMERS
              
            
            
              
                MAIN COMPETITORS
              
            
            
              • BMW
            
            
              • Daimler
            
            
              • Ford
            
            
              • Opel
            
            
              • PSA
            
            
              • Renault-Nissan
            
            
              • VW-Audi
            
            
              • Autoliv
            
            
              • Bosch
            
            
              • Faurecia
            
            
              • Johnson
            
            
              Controls
            
            
              • Jtekt
            
            
              • TI automotive 
            
            
              • ThyssenKrupp
            
            
              • TRW
            
            
              • Visteon
            
            
              • ZF
            
            
              • BSH
            
            
              • Franke
            
            
              • Agrati
            
            
              • A. Raymond
            
            
              • Fontana
            
            
              • ITW
            
            
              • Kamax
            
            
              • Nedschroef
            
            
              • SFS
            
            
              • TRW Fasteners
            
            
              Two new
            
            
              support sites
            
            
              in Delle and
            
            
              Grandvillars
            
            
              The Delle II site, which went into
            
            
              action in the summer of 2011, ships
            
            
              daily 5 million screws and nuts
            
            
              produced by the Delle I and Dasle
            
            
              plants. The ongoing renovation of
            
            
              Grandvillars will deliver wire coils to
            
            
              all the sites of LISI AUTOMOTIVE.
            
            
              Scheduled for 2010, the Delle II logistics
            
            
              platform has been operational since May
            
            
              2011. This new support site of 8,500
            
            
              square meters, located in the Territory of
            
            
              Belfort, handles the control, packaging,
            
            
              storage and shipment operations for the
            
            
              Delle (production of screws and special
            
            
              parts) and Dasle (nuts) plants located
            
            
              nearby. The new entity, which is an
            
            
              operational industrial cluster, is attached
            
            
              to the “Threaded fasteners” Business
            
            
              Group. The contribution of Delle II should
            
            
              make it possible to meet the requirements
            
            
              of the division’s clients by aiding the
            
            
              increase in volumes of Delle and Dasle,
            
            
              whose performance results it will
            
            
              increase in terms of downstream logistic
            
            
              organization for the processing and
            
            
              shipping of orders. The load increase took
            
            
              place as expected. The site, which employs
            
            
              93 people, manages the shipment of
            
            
              350 pallets a day, the equivalent of
            
            
              5 million parts.
            
            
              
                Grandvillars,
              
            
            
              
                3
              
            
            
              
                rd
              
            
            
              
                European
              
            
            
              
                manufacturer of wire
              
            
            
              
                products
              
            
            
              Initiated in partnership with the General
            
            
              Council of the Territory of Belfort, the
            
            
              Franche-Comté Region, the association
            
            
              of South Territory communes and
            
            
              the French State, the plan for the
            
            
              full modernization of the Forges site
            
            
              that hosts LISI’s Grandvillars site, was
            
            
              initiated in 2011 and will continue until
            
            
              the end of 2013. This site, in charge of
            
            
              the preparation of materials, produces
            
            
              wire coils on which cutting, annealing,
            
            
              drawing and calibration operations are
            
            
              carried out. The renovation of the site will
            
            
              be conducted along with an extension
            
            
              and the installation of a new hydrogen
            
            
              annealing furnace and several drawing
            
            
              benches. The expenditure, which will raise
            
            
              the production capacity of Grandvillars
            
            
              to 70,000 tons (against 55,000 tons),
            
            
              will cause the site’s drawing production
            
            
              to rank 3
            
            
              rd
            
            
              in Europe. This support plant
            
            
              will serve all of the “Threaded fasteners”
            
            
              Business Group’s European plants as early
            
            
              as 2012.