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Honsel International Technologies SA

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HIT
  • Headquarters : Belgium
  • Industry : Automotive Components - Cast Auto Parts segment
Stock Exchange tickerPrivately held
RHJI Ownership as of March 31, 200881.8%

Overview of Activities

HIT (http://www.honsel.com/) is a leading European supplier of light metal products to the automotive and heavy truck industries. HIT principally designs, manufactures and sells aluminum and magnesium components and assemblies. HIT has four main product categories: engine, transmission, suspension and body components.  HIT has a diverse customer base including a variety of large automobile and truck OEM manufacturers and other large OEM suppliers that ship directly to vehicle manufacturers.

HIT competes in the casting, machining and finishing phases of automotive light metal components manufacturing. HIT seeks to capitalize on key trends in the light metal casting segment of the industry including: demand for new materials and technologies that reduce the overall weight of vehicles, increased outsourcing of light metals components manufacturing by automobile OEMs, preference of automobile OEMs for full service global suppliers, increased demand for suppliers with the capability to design and engineer components and assemblies, and consolidation opportunities due to the largely regional and fragmented nature of the Light Metals Casting segment.


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KEY FIGURES

Financial information for the Japanese companies has been translated for convenience into Euros using the exchange rate prevailing March 31, 2008 (EUR/JPY = 157.37)
By change
March 31 2008 2007
Net sales 138,196 133,696
Gross profit 12,535 11,825
Gross margin 9.1% 8.8%
EBITDA 11,165 9,405
EBITDA margin 8.1% 7.0%
Operating profit/(loss) (449) (17,553)
Profit /(loss) after tax, before discontinued operations (2,874) (18,183)
Discontinued operations, net of tax (3,325) (4,279)
Net profit/(loss) (6,254) (22,459)

March 31

2008

2007
Cash 6,235 5,176
Financial debt 73,576 71,172

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