HBPO, a joint venture between Hella, Behr and Plastic Omnium which is specialized on the front-end business, started to produce and deliver just-in-time for VW in the early nineties.
Now the joint venture employs about 1250 people in 16 Just-in-time production sites in Europe, North America and Asia. Together they produce approximately 2.8 million front-ends and generate a turnover of about 762 million Euros.
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