{"id":17812,"date":"2019-11-21T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/php8.plastv.de\/?p=17812"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:53:26","slug":"magna-to-acquire-wipac-czech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/?p=17812","title":{"rendered":"Magna to Acquire Wipac Czech"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Acquisition to strengthen engineering and electronics competencies<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Will increase Magna\u2019s forward lighting engineering capability in Europe<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A complement to the 2018 acquisition of OLSA S.p.A.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">Magna has agreed to acquire Wipac Czech s.r.o., a premium automotive lighting engineering firm located in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The transaction \u2013 Magna\u2019s second lighting acquisition in as many years \u2013 is expected to close the week of November 25 and will expand Magna\u2019s engineering capabilities globally.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Wipac Czech s.r.o.\u2019s engineering team designs and develops automotive forward lighting, primarily for European exotic and luxury brands. With more than 40 engineers on staff, the company has significant technical competencies having served premium customers including Aston Martin, Bentley, Rolls Royce, McLaren, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Audi, Daimler, BMW and Porsche.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cWe see Wipac Czech playing an important role in growing our global lighting business, particularly with forward lighting to European automakers,\u201d said John O\u2019Hara, President of Magna Mechatronics, Mirrors and Lighting. \u201cLighting represents a strategic growth area for us, due to increasing levels of electronic and sensor integration and the ongoing industry trend to differentiate vehicles through styling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">With the 2018 acquisition of OLSA S.p.A., a market leader in rear lighting technology, and now Wipac Czech s.r.o., Magna has added to its existing N.A. footprint and has a total of 11 lighting manufacturing facilities and three engineering centers globally. The company has the capability to design, engineer and manufacture advanced forward and rear lighting products in its key auto production regions around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magna has agreed to acquire Wipac Czech, a premium automotive lighting engineering firm located in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The transaction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-17812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plas-tv-meldungen-auf-der-startseite-unterhalb-slider","category-plast-tv-textmeldungen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17813,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17812\/revisions\/17813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17812"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=17812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}