International Automotive Components (IAC) Group today announced the recent appointment of Jonas Nilsson to Senior Vice President Operations, Europe. In this role, Nilsson spearheads the reorganization of the company’s 27 European plants into focused product groups, further ensuring flawless launches, enhanced customer support and consistent quality performance.
“Focusing on product groups enables us to deliver superior quality as we share best manufacturing practices across locations. It also gives IAC a competitive price edge, as we can optimize capacity planning and utilization” said Nilsson.
In Europe IAC operates ten soft trim plants for vehicle flooring and acoustics solutions, six hard trim plants servicing customers in the northern European region, three hard trim plants supporting the United Kingdom-based manufacturers, and eight plants dedicated to hard trim manufacturing in support of central Europe.
The newest addition to the IAC European manufacturing footprint is the Bals, Romania plant, a world-class green field facility which supplies instrument panels, center consoles, rear doors, front door panels and headliners for the new Ford B-MAX sub compact MPV (Multi-Purpose Vehicle).
Jonas Nilsson Senior Vice President Operations, Europe.
Nilsson is a member of the IAC Group Executive team and oversees 27 plants in 10 countries in Europe accounting for more than 6.500 people. He is responsible for manufacturing strategy, finance and capacity planning, quality and logistics. In his function, Jonas is also instrumental in achieving global alignment between engineering, program management and the commercial functions, reporting to the President and CEO of IAC Group, James. K. Kamsickas.
Over the last 15 years, Nilsson has held roles in manufacturing, the management of customer business units and product divisions, as well as executive assignments at the Lear and Visteon corporations among others.
