UFI invests €45m in green technologies plant in China

UFI Group has opened its first industrial site fully dedicated to green technologies, located in Xiuzhou Jiaxing, China.

The new ‘UFI Green’ factory covers 42,000 square metres and is part of an overall investment of €45 million.

According to UFI, the new site has been outfitted with “cutting-edge production lines” and an R&D lab centre, and will develop and manufacture advanced thermal management systems and innovative filtration products.

These products, available for electric vehicles (passenger vehicles, trucks, bus and off-road), hydrogen and fuel cell technologies and industrial filtration, aim to provide more sustainable and efficient solutions.

The products include chillers, liquid cooling condensers, coolers, electric axle heat exchangers, coolant-to-coolant heaters, dry receivers, accumulators, and integrated compact battery thermal management modules for new energy vehicles and energy storage applications.

At full capacity, UFI Green is expected to reach a production capacity of 9.4 million units. Additionally, UFI claims the annual capacity of new innovative filtration media will reach three million square metres.

In the second phase, UFI Green will be also focus on hydrogen and fuel cell systems as a key development area.

The new site is the 21st of the Group and will employ a total of 650 people, according to the company.