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Shanghai Electric's Haili shares issued An and B shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1992 and 1993 respectively. It is the world's leading R & D manufacturer of core components of white goods and new energy vehicles and related cold and warm products. It has three major industrial sectors: "compressors and core components, auto parts, cold and warm connection", and its products cover hundreds of millions of households in 165 countries and regions around the world.
As the world's largest manufacturer of non-self-supporting household air-conditioning compressors, Haili has been seeking a breakthrough in industrial development and transformation in recent years, and has entered the business of new energy vehicle electric air-conditioning compressors, auto parts castings and so on. Based on the fact that Haili has formed four core competencies over the years: technological research and development capabilities in the mechanical and electrical field, large-scale lean manufacturing management capabilities, large-scale operating cost management capabilities, intermediate product customers and market capabilities, the company has strategically taken the auto parts business as a key industry sector and has been actively seeking entry opportunities.
On August 29, 2019, Haili signed a Memorandum of Cooperation intention with Marelli Group. Marelli is one of the leading global independent suppliers in the automotive industry, with about 60, 000 employees worldwide, 170 institutions and R & D centers in Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa, with sales of 13.6 billion euros in 2019. On September 4, 2020, Haili formally signed an auto parts joint venture with Marelli, which includes Marelli's divestiture and restructuring of its assets and business of automotive air conditioning compressors and air conditioning systems (with a business scale of 91.7 billion yen in 2019). And set up Marelli Hong Kong as the main body of the integration of target assets and business, and Haili acquired a 60 per cent stake in Marelli Hong Kong. After the completion of the project, the joint venture company changed its name to Haili Marelli Holdings Co., Ltd. On January 28, 2021, Haili completed the delivery of the business with Marelli.
The Haili Marelli joint venture project is not the first cooperation between the two companies. In August 2019, Marelli also acquired a 25% stake in Shanghai Haili New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Haili. It has realized the cooperation between the two sides in the business of electric air conditioning compressors for new energy vehicles.
After its establishment, Haili Marelli is headquartered in Shanghai, China and Saitama, Japan. At present, the company has 28 factories and 5 R & D centers and technical service institutions in 9 countries, including China, Japan, the United States, Thailand, Malaysia, India, South Korea, the United Kingdom and Spain. Hailimarelli is committed to developing, manufacturing and selling world-class automotive air conditioning systems and new energy vehicle thermal management system solutions, making full use of the advantages of both parent companies in the field of auto parts, giving full play to synergy, expanding the global market, and transforming into a global leading automotive thermal management system supplier in the process of becoming a world-class Cabin Comfort system solution provider.
At the launching ceremony of the global headquarters, Haili Marelli also released the latest thermal management system products for new energy vehicles. The system takes heat pump technology as the core, integrates Haili ultra-high efficiency scroll electric compressor and Marelli air conditioning system technology, greatly improves the energy efficiency ratio of air conditioning, and can greatly improve the driving range of new energy vehicles in winter. The Multi Function Receiver, with unique control function of the system makes the heat pump system have the functions of cooling, heating, dehumidification and defrosting, and realizes high integration, which improves the carrying ability of the vehicle. The working environment of the system is expanded and can be used in the global market environment. At the same time, the security of the system is greatly improved. With the excellent performance of the system products, Haili Marelli has approached the matching project of the propulsion system with a number of head automobile mainframe factories in Europe, the United States and Japan and major new power car companies in China.
China is the largest automobile market in the world, and new energy vehicles take the lead in the world, which contains huge market opportunities. In the next stage, Hailimarelli will integrate global resources, dig deep into the Chinese market, set up a global R & D center in China and build core factories for key components, making use of the world's first-class product quality and leading technology. to better serve China's new energy vehicle thermal management system market.
Through the joint venture with Marelli, Haili will have a global business of automotive air-conditioning compressors and air-conditioning systems, as well as world-class R & D capabilities and customer resources, and become the world's leading supplier of automotive air-conditioning compressors and air-conditioning systems. Haili's existing electric vehicle air conditioning compressor business will also form a synergy with Marelli heat pump systems and other businesses to provide complete environmental system solutions for new energy vehicles, promote Haili to become faster and stronger in the field of new energy vehicle parts, form Haili's "second main business", and realize Haili's "development from white goods to auto parts, from core components to system integration." From the domestic market-oriented development to the international layout of the three major transformation strategies of enterprises.
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