Central China Automotive Lighting Co., Ltd (CCAL) Jim Bob (jimbobchana@gmail.com) http://www.hzcd.com.cn/ http://www.aliexpress.com/store/113597 Central China Automotive Lighting Co., Ltd, founded in 1993, is the pioneer of China's automotive lighting industry. CCAL is located in Hubei Province--- the central China. It has existing assets 10 million US dollars, nearly 350 employees. CCAL has a R&D team of 50 engineers and technicians, among who there are 2 professors of senior engineer, 5 senior engineers, 43 engineers. CCAL has the ability to design and develop auto lights simultaneously with the Automotive OEMs. Its annual output is 600,000 sets of various automotive lighting. CCAL has the core production process conditions of assembly, injection molding, and spraying, vacuum coating. CCAL is a member of the Hubei Province-level Automotive Lighting Engineering Technology Research Center and also a member of the China Auto Standardization Committee. CCAL passed the ISO/TS16949 quality management system certification verification in the end of 2005. CCAL passed 3C certification verification conducted by the China Automotive Certification Center in March 2006. In 2010, CCAL achieved the operating income of 32 million USD, an increase of 586% from the 4.8 million USD in 2003, with an average annual growth of more than 30%. In recent years, CCAL has made full use of its regional advantages, market advantage, industrial advantage, policy advantage, its advantages of the production base, raw material procurement, and marketing advantages, its technological advantages of joint with tertiary institutions and research institutes, gaining a rapid development and occupying an important position in the industry. CCAL is now the leading enterprise of automotive lighting R&D and manufacturing in Hubei Province and even in central China. CCAL is now supplying auto lights as a core supporting enterprise for Chongqing Changan, Changan Suzuki, Hebei Changan, Nanjing Chang'an, SHACMAN (Shanxi Heavy Duty Truck Company), Taiyuan Heavy Duty Truck, Dongfeng Yu'an (DFSOKON), Zhejiang Geely, Chery, Southeast Motor, Lifan Motor and other auto manufacturers. Under the premise of constantly consolidating and expanding its market share in the Changan Group, Central China Automotive Lighting Co., Ltd. is nurturing and expanding new target markets, trying to maintain stable supplying relationship with the Haima Motor, Geely, Lifan, Chery, while at the same time CCAL is sparing no efforts to enter Changan Ford, Baic Motor and other target markets. In recent years, the company has firmly aimed at the technical advances of the international similar auto lighting products, strived to create the first-class domestic auto lights enterprises, increased the intensity of research and development, market development and technical exchanges, and improved its R & D capabilities and high-end lighting production technology by learning the first-class domestic lights

enterprise management mode and advanced technology. Through continuous technological innovation, CCAL has broken through bottle neck of many key technologies in lamp production and developed composite lighting products of multi-function, good quality, advanced technology with strong market competitiveness, laying the foundation for building the auto lighting brand of international competitiveness. Through years of efforts, CCAL's automotive lighting products has made greatly breakthrough in terms of technological innovation and product innovation, becoming the central China and the country's pillar industries, which fully reflects the great role of technological innovation and CCAL’s strong competitiveness in the field of Automotive Lighting, playing an important role for technological progress and scientific development of the entire automotive industry. CCAL’s R & D team is very competitive in the industry, making a series of outstanding achievements, such as the development and trial of the Intelligent Light System, the primer-free process, heat embedded technology, anti-fog coating spray technology, the use and research of vibration and friction welding technology, the use and research of multi-color injection molding technology, flame activation technology, and successful promotion of two-component adhesive, which lays the technical foundation for improving CCAL’s quality, efficiency and the grade of lighting products. A number of achievements have been awarded the National Excellent Quality Management. Annual declarations of patents are four or more. The CCAL has a strong ability to innovate and is a state-level high-tech enterprise collection of scientific research, production, and sales, with a comprehensive independent research and development systems and automotive lighting research and development team. Relying on its own scientific research efforts, CCAL has continuously launched new products. With a strong follow-up to the technological development and innovation ability, CCAL has developed more than ten kinds of high-tech automotive lighting products, more than ten patent applications. Self-developed high-tech products account for 75% of the total sales of CCAL lights. The company has established a provincial automotive lighting engineering technology research center, and has established long-term and wide range of technical exchanges and cooperation with famous domestic scientific research institutes such as Tsinghua University, Wuhan Science and Technology University, and Changan Automotive Engineering Institute. Through independent research and development and joint development, we have achieved ongoing product innovation and established cooperation mechanism between production and research to meet all customer requirements. So, CCAL has a strong competitive ability in the industry.