Business engineering company brings specialists in

SNECI of France has participated in the setting-up of Renault's Modus people carrier project by getting four specialist suppliers to work together towards the project's successful completion.

SNECI of France, a leader in vehicle equipment business engineering, has participated in the setting-up of the Modus project, which culminated in the launch, at the Madrid trade fair in May 2004, of Modus, the mini-people carrier designed and manufactured by international car maker Renault.

SNECI was instrumental in getting four specialist suppliers - Tubificio di Terni (a specialist in car exhausts), Gruppo Proma Italia (seat structures), TEBO (brake flexible couplings) and TMD Friction (brake lining) - to work together towards the project's successful completion.

The Modus is due to be manufactured by Renault at its production site in Valladolid (in Spain).

Renault has high hopes for Modus, which is the French-based car group's latest mini-monospace (or people carrier).

The company says that Modus will be a strong player on the European market for smaller vehicles, which is expected to represent up to 15% of the total in the near future.

With SNECI's help, Modus has become reality, as part of a truly international business engineering programme.

SNECI provides expertise to international parts and component manufacturers seeking to win contracts in France with French automobile manufacturers and leading component manufacturers.

As a leader in vehicle equipment business engineering, the company can open the door to the French automotive market to non-French players.

SNECI, a leader in business engineering for vehicle equipment in France over the last 50 years, has a long history of helping international parts and component manufacturers to win and develop sales with major customers in the automotive sector.

In order to understand the requirements of its automotive customers, SNECI has developed its own methodology to identify their needs and define the best strategy to secure profitable contracts.

Thanks to synergies between the products it manages, SNECI can guarantee entry to the French market for component manufacturers acting as partner-companies.

In the process of doing this, SNECI is able to rely on its in-depth knowledge of the French automotive market and environment.

Winning strategies that are able to create added value are defined and elaborated by a hard-working team of professional, highly qualified men and women, all committed to excellence.

They are all top engineers with unrivalled expertise in fields as varied as chassis, mechanical engineering, electronics, foundry work, and plastics processing, so that they are able to provide know-how for the entire spectrum of the French automotive market.

Thanks to their background and track-record, they are able to understand the current needs and potential requirements of clients, and are in a position to focus on winning contracts and managing technologically innovative mass-production projects over the long term.

The technical and commercial business development provided by SNECI's team can make all the difference to its partners' success.

SNECI facilitates successful contract negotiations through in-depth needs analysis, project development follow-up, quality assurance in compliance with current automotive standards, and production supervision in conjunction with the management of technical and commercial relations.

About SNECI - since 1952, SNECI has been the leading French company catering for international parts and component manufacturers.

As such, it has gained in-depth expertise of the French automobile and component manufacturers' market, the challenges they face, and their organization and working methods.

Over the last 50 years, SNECI has acquired solid experience and established close relationships with international manufacturers through its strong network of 5,000 contacts at all industry levels.

In 2003, SNECI generated sales of EUR 230 million for its partners with 1,500 references for mass-produced technical products delivered daily to SNECI's 64 automotive customers.

Over the past year, SNECI has initiated 110 ongoing projects and 67 signed letters of intent.

Thanks to its high-level, in-depth involvement with the French automotive sector, SNECI also contributes its expertise - as a member of the board of directors - to France's specialist body known as the Federation of Industries for Vehicle Equipment (FIEV).

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