Gold Peak Industries (Holdings) Limited is a Hong Kong-based

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manufacturer established in 1964. They have been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 1984. The Group has built few brand names for its major product categories, such as GP batteries,

KEF Kef may refer to: Places * El Kef (also transliterated as ''Al-Kāf'' or ''Le Kef''), a city in northwestern Tunisia *Kef Governorate, Tunisia Others *''Aram Bajakian's Kef'', a 2011 album by guitarist Aram Bajakian * ISO 639:kef or Ewe languag ...

premium consumer

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s and

Celestion Celestion is a British designer and exporter of professional loudspeakers. History Origins What became Celestion was started in Hampton Wick (suburban London) in 1924. ''Cyril French'' and his three brothers had taken over a plating works ...

professional loudspeakers. Gold Peak Industries (Holdings) Limited currently owns 85% interest in GP Industries while GP Industries holds an approximately 62% interest in GP Batteries. Both GP Industries and GP Batteries are publicly listed in Singapore.

GP Industries Limited

GP Industries is mainly engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of electronics and acoustics products. This includes KEF consumer speakers and Celestion professional speaker drivers.

Automotive wire harnesses

GP Industries is one of China's manufacturers of automotive

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es for the domestic market. Furthermore, it supplies Japanese, European and American automobiles. The products are supplied to major Chinese JV automakers including

Shanghai Volkswagen SAIC Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd., formerly known as Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. is an automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Anting, Shanghai, China and a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor. It was ...

, Shanghai General Motors and

Cummins Cummins Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products. Cummins also services engines and related equipment, including fuel systems, controls, air ...

. In addition, the products are also supplied to the second tier customers like Shanghai Koito in China, as well as

Valeo Valeo is a French global automotive supplier headquartered in France, listed on the Paris Stock Exchange ( CAC-40 Index). It supplies a wide range of products to automakers and the aftermarket. The Group employs 113,600 people in 33 countries wo ...

Decoma Magna International Inc. is a Canadian parts manufacturer for automakers. It is one of the largest companies in Canada and was recognized on the 2020 ''Forbes'' Global 2000. The company is the largest automobile parts manufacturer in North Americ ...

and

Visteon Visteon Corporation (VC) is an American global automotive electronics supplier and Fortune 500 company spun off from the Ford Motor Company in 2000. Visteon is composed of multiple businesses that design, engineer, and manufacture vehicle cockpit ...

in the US.

GP Batteries International Limited

GP Batteries manufactures and markets batteries and battery-related products including primary batteries (alkaline, carbon-zinc, lithium, silver oxide), rechargeable batteries (nickel metal hydride, lithium-ion and lithium polymer) and chargers which includes portable

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s. They are one of Asia's largest battery manufacturing companies. GPBI supplies battery products to

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s, battery companies as well as consumer retail markets under the GP brand name. GP Batteries also produces batteries for electric vehicles and emergency starter batteries using thin metal film lead acid technology.

Cadmium poisoning case

Workers at GP factories have been routinely exposed to

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dust, an extremely toxic metal used in the manufacture of Nickel-cadmium batteries that can cause kidney failure, lung cancer and bone disease. In 2006 more than 100 female factory workers in southern China attempted to sue their former employers (GP) over suspected cadmium poisoning. On 24 August 2010, over a hundred workers protested outside GP's factory in

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. GP had promised compensation to workers affected by poisoning but severely reduced the negotiated amount offering a "take it or leave it" situation. Karin Mak's documentary ''Red Dust'' follows female workers fighting for medical care from their former employer, China's GP Batteries factory, after suffering years of cadmium poisoning.Red Dust « Next Frame Student Film Festival
. Nextframe.org.

References

External links

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Gold Peak official website

GP Industries official website

GP Batteries official website
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