Hyundai Glovis Busy Shipping Auto Knock-down Kits to Brazil
Hyundai Glovis Busy Shipping Auto Knock-down Kits to Brazil
  • By Blaise Judja-Sato (info@koreaittimes.com)
  • 승인 2014.04.25 00:14
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SEOUL, KOREA - Hyundai Motor's exports of knock-down kits to Brazil are rising at a rapid pace. Ahead of the World Cup games in June this year, the local consumption has been revived and Hyundai is benefiting from this trend. The knock-down center in Ulsan owned by Hyundai Glovis, the shipping unit of the auto maker, has been busy loading the kits of late.
 
 
 
The share of Hyundai cars in the Brazilian market has doubled to 6 percent last year from the previous year. Thanks to the best-selling model HB20, a hatchback subcompact, Hyundai Brazil could raise the output to 180,000 units this year from 150,000 two years ago.
 
Hyundai Glovis also had to increase its delivery volume shipped out of the Ulsan center to 10,000 boxes of the kits a day from 8,000 boxes last year. The number of employees at the center has also risen to 185 from 160. Even after additional hiring, all workers at the center are required to work 2 more hours a day, with the number of Saturday special work days to three a month from just once.
 
Han Gwang-hee, the head of the Ulsan knock-down center, said, "It is of utmost importance for us to keep the delivery schedule so that Hyundai Brazil could assemble cars without delay." In order to reduce the time it takes to be delivered to Brazil while keeping the kits intact, the center relied on an ingenious solution of using silica gel. Since the kits contain as many as 690 different parts, there are many that change shapes and weight as the destination is humid and hot. The center used myriads of small silica gel packets to dry and dehumidify the parts, while replacing packaging materials with heat-resistant polystyrene.

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