HellermannTyton is a British registered company with affiliated companies in 37 countries manufacturing and supplying products for fastening, fixing, identifying and protecting cables and their connecting components. The company employs worldwide over 3,800 people. It was listed on the

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until it was acquired by

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History

The company was founded by Paul Hellermann and Jack Bowthorpe in

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as Hellermann Electric, a subsidiary of Goodliffe Electric Supplies, in 1938. It moved to a new manufacturing site at

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in Sussex in 1948. In 1964 the company acquired Insuloid Manufacturing, a business which had been founded in 1933 by the Emery family in

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, Manchester manufacturing bus-bar insulations. It launched the Tyton system, a method for cable bundling in continuous system, in 1965 and established HellermannTyton Corporation in

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in 1969. Then in 1976 it expanded into the aviation market, offering cable management products for aeroplanes. The company established operations at Järfälla in Sweden in 1982, at Hyogo in Japan in 1986 and in

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and in Shanghai in China in 1998. It then began harmonising its branding under the single worldwide trademark ''HellermannTyton'' in 1999. After that, in 2000, it established a new plant at Tornesch near

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with 15,000 m² of production and storage space. The company was sold by its then owners,

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, to funds controlled by

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for £289m in 2006. It was then the subject of an

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in March 2013. In September 2013 Doughty Hanson & Co sold a further 20.9% stake in the company for £119.25m. In July 2015

made an offer to buy the company for $1.7 billion. The acquisition was completed on 18 December 2015 and HellermannTyton became constituent part of Aptiv's Engineered Components Group division.

Origin of name

The name HellermannTyton is a

Portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of words

Operations

Manufacturing sites

Three production facilities are located in the UK (

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). The others are located in Poland ( Kotunia, within

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), France (

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), Germany ( Tornesch), South Africa (

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), Singapore (

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), China (

), Japan ( Hyogo), Korea (

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), USA (

), Mexico (

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) and Brazil ( Jundiai).

Processed materials

The materials processed are usually engineering plastics: PA 6.6 (in different condition, like heat stabilised, UV-resistant, weather resistant, impact modified, glass filled, mineral filled, coloured); PE, PP with different modifications; POM; PA 11, PA 12;

PEEK Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) is a colourless organic thermoplastic polymer in the polyaryletherketone (PAEK) family, used in engineering applications. The polymer was first developed in November 1978, later being introduced to the market by Vic ...

;

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(Tefzel); PA 46; other technical

thermoplastics A thermoplastic, or thermosoft plastic, is any plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling. Most thermoplastics have a high molecular weight. The polymer chains associate ...

; Chloroprene Rubber.

Sectors and divisions

The company produces for diverse markets and industries including

Original equipment manufacturer An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces non-aftermarket parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer. It is a common industry term recognized and used by many professional or ...

s for passenger cars, rail carriages, aircraft and ships as well as products used in electronics, telecommunication equipment, appliances or on construction sites. Product sales are categorised into the following segments: *Electrical: products for

s, electrical wholesalers, contractors acting on behalf of diverse end-users, panel builders assembling electrical panels for end-markets, resellers to end-markets such as catalogue companies and sales to the mass transit, defence, alternative energy, products used for application offshore in

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and electronics end-markets. *Automotive: comprises global sales to leading global manufacturers of cars, trucks and other heavy vehicles as well as to their suppliers (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers). The company develops and produce customer-specific products such as fastening elements and cable ties especially for the automotive industry, which are used in doors, in the engine compartment (e.g. cables, hoses and lines are held and fastened) and on the entire wiring harness. Another important operating segment of

is the connected car market. *Datacom and Other: comprises products for data communication providers requiring secure environments such as data centres and open floor work area applications as well as sales to the other diverse non-cable management end-markets including forestry, agriculture and packaging.

New parts development

The company develops products based on customer requirements. e.g. custom-made automotive wiring harnesses for passenger cars, for ship and aircraft manufacturers and other industries such as "white goods". Products are designed using design programs, known as

CAD Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve co ...

systems, in 3D. The designs are produced in a small series of prototypes sent to the customer for installation in vehicles, machinery etc. for testing purposes. After testing the part, corresponding quantities are made using

injection moulding Injection moulding (U.S. spelling: injection molding) is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting molten material into a mould, or mold. Injection moulding can be performed with a host of materials mainly including metals (for ...

References

External links

Official siteGoogle Finance profile Aptiv PLC "NYSE: APTV"
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