Marelli joint venture opens new lighting plant
Marelli, a global technology supplier to the automotive sector, together with its joint venture partner Motherson, inaugurated today a new manufacturing facility for automotive lighting in Sanand in the Indian state of Gujarat. The new plant marks an important expansion of the Marelli Motherson Lighting India (MMLI) joint venture’s presence in the country.
With the new plant, MMLI’s second in Sanand, Marelli and Motherson address the increasing demand from India’s rapidly growing passenger vehicle market. The new facility is dedicated to supplying high-performance exterior lighting systems. MMLI is introducing several first-of-its-kind lighting technologies to the Indian market. For example, it manufactures single-piece, end-to-end lamps spanning the full width of the car, creating impressively homogenous light signatures almost two meters long at the front and rear. The facility also localises India’s slimmest headlamp modules with only 17 millimetres in height. Depending on customer requirements, specific configurations with or without adaptive driving beam (ADB), high-beam boost or ambient light will be available. These innovations enable new styling opportunities for vehicle design while delivering strong performance and safety benefits.
