CIE LT Forge “Exporter of the Year 2022”

During the Annual Conference organized by the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists, CIE LT Forge was awarded as the “Lithuanian Exporter of the Year 2022”.

In 2022 CIE LT Forge sales increased 35% and reached 43.5 mln. EUR, 99.5 % of manufactured products were exported.

One of the most important news in 2022 – the company entered the Scandinavian market by signing a long-term contract with a large commercial transport manufacturer in Sweden. CIE LT Forge expanded their number of customers in Poland, Germany, Hungary, Romania, France, USA, Mexico.

The effective work of the team helped to achieve the best results. The company set ambitious goals – constantly invest in process improvement and focus on robotization of production lines. Thanks to the professionalism of the team, CIE LT Forge is flexible, respond effectively to the market changes and meets needs of customers.

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VDA, FMEA, 8D, Core Tools trainings

We are happy to notify about an active professional growth of the employees of BACC companies!
During the spring, VDA 6.3, VDA 6.5, FMEA, 8D, Core Tools online trainings are held every week. Participants not only deepen their knowledge, analyze complex technical cases, but also share fun work stories. Certified VDA trainers Florin Iacobescu and Mariana Marinoff accumulated their exclusive experience working with market leaders Hella, Continental, etc. and share it with participants.
We are happy that employees of “Hi-Steel”, “Kaunas University of Technology”, “SLT Industrial Components”, “CIE LT Forge”, “Galvanta”, “Baltic Filter” and “Hella Lithuania” have amazing opportinities to learn and to grow!

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The Career Day at Kaunas Technology Training Center

On 23th February, 2023 the Event – Career Day took place at Kaunas Technology Training Centre, Gauk kontaktą – pasirašyk kontraktą 2023 (Make a Contact, Sign a Contract 2023), which attracted so much attention from young and motivated students, full of energy. Company representatives had an opportunity to present their business, working conditions, open positions, and internship opportunities to all the students.

We are very pleased to see that the contacts made during the event will not only help young people to find an opportunity for an internship or apprenticeship, but also a full-time position and new career opportunities.

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The “Business Breakfast” for HR Managers

The “Business Breakfast” of HR Managers of BACC companies took place at KTU “Santaka” valley.

Special Thanks to KTU and PhD. Kazimieras Juzėnas, who not only welcomed the HR managers to the meeting – discussion, but also made specific suggestions about possible ways of cooperation betweenEducation system and business with the aim to encourage young people to choose engineering/technical specialisations.

Thanks to Agnė Nekrošienė from “Alliance for recruitment”, who analyzed the challenges of the HR manager and market trends in 2022.  Giedrius Valuckas, Board Chairman of BACC, presented results of the Automotive Industry in Lithuania.

We believe that with the cooperation of educational institutions and businesses, young people will be encouraged to choose engineering professions, and after acquiring them, they will actively contribute to the growth of the Lithuanian automotive industry.

We also hope that more favorable conditions will be created at the State level for attracting and retaining foreign talent. Together we can do more!

 

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The Experience Exchange Forum of Quality managers

The Experience Exchange Forum of BACC Quality Managers took place at “Hella Lithuania”!

We are happy to have the opportunity to gain more experience about the Product audit and LEAN from “Hella Lithuania” professionals – Visvaldas Kasperavičius, Donatas Vlasov, Ričardas Stasiūnas.

Nowadays standards for quality in the Automotive sector are very high because it has the direct connection with people’s safety, health or even lives.

During the Forum, we deepened our knowledge, got acquainted with trends in the field of Quality Management and observed how it is implemented in one of the largest companies in the Lithuanian automotive industry.

It is planned that the Experience exchange Forums of Quality Managers would also be held in 2023. We believe that these activities will help specialists to deepen their knowledge and gain new competences.

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The Experience Exchange Forum of Sales Managers

On October 26th “The Experience Exchange forum of BACC sales managers” took place at Hi-Steel.

Special thanks to Dainius Volskis, Director of Hi-Steel and Liudmila Valinčienė, Sales manager of the same company, for the nice reception of all participants. During the meeting sales managers shared their experience and Audrius Gruodis, charismatic moderator of the Event, presented sales technics and led them “out of their comfort zone”.

Dainius Volskis, director of  Hi-Steel,  presented an interesting tour of the factory, showed installed innovative technologies and production processes. Darius Lasionis, Executive Director of BACC, presented the sustainability and “green course” requirements for the European Union companies which will be established by law in the very near future.

During the Forum, participants analysed ways of sales during the crisis (supply chain challenges, energy prices, management of customer expectations) and actively shared their companies’ experience in today’s economic situation.

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The Event “The future belongs to engineers: Lithuania 2030”

Yesterday, the Event “The future belongs to engineers: Lithuania 2030” was held at the Kaunas Technology Training Center for the students of this educational institution and companies in the manufacturing sector.

The purpose of the meeting was to present the general trends of the Lithuanian engineering industry, challenges and opportunities faced by companies in this sector, as well as to discuss the necessary competences of future employees. During the event, the perspectives of attracting and retaining talents in the automotive industry companies were analyzed.

During the meeting, a discussion panel was organized, where Darius Lasionis, Director of LINPRA – Engineering and Technology Industries Association of Lithuania and Executive Director of BACC, Paulius Čepas, director of Kaunas Technology Training Center, Evaldas Rimša, CEO of Baltec CNC Technologies, Linas Tuskevičius, Co-owner of UAB Autoinovacijos and Rasa Žalneravičiūtė, HR director of CIE LT Forge were invited to share their insights. The discussion was moderated by Gintaras Serafinas, Editor of the Magazine “Reitingai”.

The participants of the discussion talked about the importance of professional training in the future labor market and necessary skills for specialists.

We hope that the event was useful for the students of the Kaunas Technology Training Center, as they had the opportunity to learn from business representatives about attractive working conditions and career opportunities in industrial companies.

In the future, the collaboration between educational institutions, industrial companies and students could encourage young people to choose technical professions, creating their personal and Lithuanian Automotive industry growth.

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Automotive Supplier Summit @IZB2022

This week, the international conference “Automotive Supplier Summit @IZB2022” took place in Wolfsburg, Germany and was attended by Darius Lasionis, Executive director of BACC, Arūnas Šarka, Commercial attache in the Embassy of Lithuania in Germany and representatives of „Invest Lithuania“.

The leading theme of this year‘s Automotive Supplier Summit @IZB2022“ was “Rethink Automotive“ and it was based on these pillars:

  • sustainability
  • resilience
  • software.

During the conference, relevant topics such as broken supply chains, the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis and great uncertainty about the future were discussed. Speakers emphasized the importance of further development of electric vehicles, infrastructure development, new software solutions, stabilization of supply chains (searching for alternative suppliers), and implementation of sustainability in Automotive companies.

The Lithuanian delegation had a possibility not only to listen to reports of representatives of the Automotive industry, to visit the exhibition “International Suppliers Fair IZB 2022”, but also to meet Automotive companies and Clusters with serious plans to find common projects with Lithuanian companies of this sector.

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The visit of Leaders of SMMT and VDA organisations

On October 6-7 Baltic Automotive Components Cluster had a chance to host German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) and Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) leaders Dr. Marcus Bollig, Mike Hawes and Ruta Aisthorpe.

The Manufacturing sector in Lithuania is constantly growing where the main growth was driven by #automotive industry. The industrial production change is 2022 Jan-Aug was 15% higher than during corresponding period of 2021.

Thanks for productive discussion Ausrine Armonaite Minister of Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania, Agnė Vaiciukevičiūtė, PhD Vice-Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania, Nadežda Kudriavceva-Bausienė Head of manufacturing sector team at Invest Lithuania.

We had a chance to visit ALTAS AUTO, Arrival Lithuania, Teltonika Telematics, Elinta Motors, Continental Automotive Lithuania, HELLA Lithuania and discuss about their ambitious growth plans, need of supply chain and opportunities about development of automotive ecosystem.

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BACC Meeting at “Hella Lithunia”

We would like to express our thanks to UAB Teltonika Telematics for giving the leaders and managers of BACC member-companies the opportunity to visit the factory as well as for making an especially thorough and informative presentation!
After the excursion, we had an exceptional opportunity to invite the leaders and managers of companies to define strategic objectives in the short term and the long term.
During the gathering, Visvaldas Kasperavicius, head of plant quality at UAB HELLA Lithuania, was elected by a unanimous vote to be the new member of the Board, replacing Tobias Pohlschmidt, who has moved to the HELLA company in the USA.
The leaders and managers of BACC member-companies actively participated in the discussion about setting the most important objectives for BACC, planned future activities, events and forums, and shared their experience in the current business environment.
The shared objectives of BACC member-companies motivate us to work even more actively on behalf of Lithuania’s Automotive community!

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