Flexitech | Innovative solutions for automotive brake hoses

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Flexitech is one of the world’s leading suppliers of brake and cooling hoses for the automotive and motorbike industries. Driven by a strong sense of collective innovation, and thanks to our know-how, we have been developing specific, innovative technical solutions to meet our customers’ requirements for combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles for over 60 years.

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OUR PRODUCTS

OUR STRENGTHS

Design and Engineering

Committed employees

Research and Innovation

An international network

Loyal suppliers around the world

Labels and certifications, a reflection of our high standards

Financial and industrial performances

The Design and Engineering teams tailor their services to their customers’ processes and expectations, who are mainly car and motorbike manufacturers. We use an agile approach and are rigorous in the application of development processes so that we can get involved right from the product design phase: we use our expertise and our ability to innovate to help each customer develop new platforms.

Our company policy is centred around our employees, and our teams are committed to our shared missions and values. We have medium-sized sites located right around the world, helping to stimulate exchanges at all levels and encouraging collective intelligence, rapid decision-making and agile implementation.

We have dedicated Research and Innovation teams to anticipate future market needs and offer our customers products that meet the new challenges facing the automotive and motorbike industries. Our teams use the expertise of our core business – designing and manufacturing brake and cooling hoses – to constantly develop innovative solutions. Flexitech created the overmolding technique and hybrid hoses.

We are the only supplier in the world with industrial capabilities in the 4 main automotive regions, our plants are always situated near to our customers, the automotive and motorcycle manufacturers (OEM). We work with General Motors, Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Brembo, Geely, Volvo, Rivian and many others to design, develop and manufacture products close to their design centres and production plants. Flexitech provides its customers with added value by being able to adapt to each market.

To guarantee the quality and maintain the performance of our products, we are very demanding with our suppliers, whom we select carefully using criteria, such as technical capacities, quality, reliability, environmental aspects, etc. We have built up trusted relationships with them over years and work together to satisfy the market requirements.

Our quest for excellence and our high standards at every level are illustrated by the labels and certifications we have obtained, demonstrating the quality of our solutions and our compliance with numerous international standards for quality, health and safety at work and the environment: IATF, ISO 9 001, ISO 45 001, ISO 14 001, OSHA.

With almost 8% growth in annual sales over the last 5 years, our financial performance enables us to invest and undertake ambitious investment plans. We have a rigorous management approach in all areas of our business (production, logistics, purchasing, ….) and monitor our performance indicators daily.

FLEXITECH AROUND THE WORLD

Flexitech is present in 7 countries. Its head office is in Saint-Etienne, near to Lyon (France). Flexitech is the only supplier of brake hoses with manufacturing facilities in the 4 main automative and motorcycle manufacturing regions: Europe, Asia, North-America and South-America.

Our proximity allows us to develop products and solutions as partners, helping to reduce costs and lead-times for design and production.

Flexitech France

Flexitech has 3 sites in France:
Montrond les Bains: the group’s historical site which contains a brake hose assembly plant and a complete test laboratory.

Panissières: opened in 2001, this site produces hoses to be fitted in European factories.
Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert: the company’s head office, which also houses the Research and Innovation and Customer-projects departments, as well as the company’s support activity departments (Sales, Purchasing, IT, Finance, HR).

Flexitech China

In Wuxi, a city close to Shanghai, the hose manufacturing and assembly plant was opened in 2016. It contains a complete test laboratory and the best human resources for engineering, project and sales management.

Flexitech Romania

The plant is in Ploiesti, an hour’s drive from Bucharest. Opened in 2003, it has a large production capacity with 28 assembly lines. It is an agile set-up and a supplier to a lot of our partners.

Flexitech USA

Flexitech has been present in the USA since 1999, and in New Boston (Michigan), near to Detroit, has set-up a centre of excellence that brings together Research and Development, customer project management and commercial activities for our North American customers.

Flexitech Brazil

We are the only brake hose manufacturer with production facilities in South America, in Sao Paulo, which enables us to satisfy customer requirements and become involved at all project stages quickly and at lower cost. The environmental impact due to transport is also considerably reduced to deliver customers on this continent. Our hose manufacturing and assembly plant also has a test laboratory, “technical support” and sales departments.

Flexitech Italy

In 2021, Flexitech acquired BHP, one of the European leaders in OEM brake hose and shock absorber hose spare parts. The company is based in Pinerolo, close to Turin, and has extensive know-how, organisation and production equipment dedicated to this market.

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Flexitech Mexico

Flexitech has 3 factories in San Luis Potosí, three hours’ drive from Mexico City.

The first hose assembly plant was built in 2009. The Group’s strong growth in the region led to the construction of a second plant for manufacturing hoses for the region’s needs in 2012; in 2021, the third plant was built to double our assembly capacity.

INNOVATIVE HOSE

SOLUTIONS

WORLD

LEADER

WORLD

LEADER

OUR PRODUCTS

OUR STRENGTHS

Design and Engineering

Committed employees

Research and Innovation

An international network

Loyal suppliers around the world

Labels and certifications, a reflection of our high standards

Financial and industrial performances

FLEXITECH AROUND THE WORLD

Flexitech France

Flexitech China

Flexitech Romania

Flexitech USA

Flexitech Brazil

Flexitech Italy

Flexitech Mexico

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