Hella starts shipping from its Kaunas plant

The construction of the company’s 8’000 square metre automotive electronics factory in Kaunas started back in October 2017. In less than a year, the 3’700 square metre industrial premises were built and equipped as well as the 2’300 square metre warehouse along with the 2’000 square metre administrative building. The company has a current workforce of about 70 employees at its site in Kaunas, but the plan is to recruit 250 employees in total during three years, reports Invest Lithuania – The Lithuanian Investment Promotion Agency. Serial production of the first product BiLED HighBeam PCBA was officially launched in August. The circuit boards are fitted into the headlamps of European-made cars. It is planned that the production line that started its operation in the factory will produce over 1 million circuit boards per year and the first shipment of the product has already been sent to the client. “We have reached a very important stage in the history of our new factory – we have sent the first products of Hella Lithuania to our customers,” says the head of Hella Lithuania Michael Jarecki in the report.