Our new R&D project with Adient Ltd.

A project closing ceremony was held by Adient Mezőlak Kft. Three automotive product families were developed during the research & development project implemented in the consortium. Julius-Globe Kft. was the partner of Adient consortium. Our main duty included the design and pilot production of the individual parts of the prototype product family.

The car seat manufacturing Adient Group has been present in Hungary since 2007, and innovative vehicle seat structures are manufactured for key car manufacturers such as BMW, Daimler, Chrysler, Tesla, Ford, Jeep, Seat or Volkswagen. More than 2700 specialists work at three Hungarian sites of the company, in Mór, Mezőlak and Kecskemét. Seat back and seat height adjusting and locking mechanisms as well as seat locking mechanisms are manufactured in the plant of Mezőlak opened in 2011. Currently, seat mechanisms manufactured by the plant of Mezőlak employing 580 heads are mounted into each tenth car of the world.
In addition to mass production, research & development activities are also carried out in Mezőlak in close cooperation with specialists working in the European Centre of Adient located in Germany. The 3 product families of world unique anti-backslash seat back adjusting mechanisms – seat back adjusting, seat height adjusting and locking mechanisms – were developed also within this work. The purpose of the project was to work out and finalise the designs and development prototypes of the above new product family series and to provide them for production as well as to design and manufacture the line and tools related to the product.
As a result of the development, a product family of anti-backslash seat backs was developed for the first time in the world to meet the special needs of 3-door car types. The advanced model of the seat height adjusting product family also includes an innovation, which is much more beneficial in its functionality than the previous series, and its development is considered also as a manufacturing engineering novelty. While due to its light weight and small size, the developed series of the locking mechanisms used for the locking of seat backs and seats is a novelty and offers a competitive advantage to the company on the market. The project is internationally significant, and offers a novelty, which ensures and strengthens the economic situation and market position of Adient Mezőlak Kft.