OREANDA-NEWS. November 05, 2009. During your car travel from point A to point B, dim light substitutes the distance light and vice versa. It is typical for driving along the high-way when it gets dark. Night is the time when headlight is much more important than the powerful engine, comfortable saloon, superb running characteristics or good noise insulation.

They are not likely to make difference if you miss the turn because of poor visibility. The well-brightened road is the only thing that will help you reach your destination safe and sound. Let us talk about headlights and lamps, the importance of which is absolute. Xenon lamps are not as often met as halogen ones, so we are going to talk about them little later. Halogen illumination is a lamp which is filled with mixture of inactive gas and halogen elements (fluorine, chlorine, bromine). In order for the lamp to give light, a coil – filament is set inside. Electricity goes through the coil and it makes light. And our safety on the road at a night time depends on this device.

And the most important guarantee of our safety are the people who produce those headlights and lamps. They make our roads brighter and provide us with confidence and calmness. Here is the central topic of the article – the launch ceremony of UzChasys Co Ltd, the new Uzbek-Korean enterprise. The company majors in production of headlights and lamps for the cars manufactured by GM Uzbekistan. Uzavtosanoat JSC and UzChasys Co Ltd are the founders of the new company. 70%  of the authorized capital stock belongs to Uzavtosanoat. UzChasys Co Ltd owns the residual 30%. The foundation of the company became possible due to the Program of Industrial Development and Modernization of Manufacturing Process in Namangan, developed by Uzbekistan’s President  Mr. Islam Karimov. The city of Namangan is the place where new factory has been built. The old house-building enterprise has been renovated in eleven months and the manufacturing process, in cooperation with UzChasys Co Ltd, has been started.

UzChasys Co Ltd is the only enterprise in Central Asia equipped with updated technologies for high-precision polymer casting, UV processing, vacuum aluminum backing. Moreover, the factory is also provided with up-to-date equipment to check the ready product for quality.  It makes photometric testing, helps check proofness and accuracy of headlights and lamps’ assembly. It is important because even if the smallest error occurs and the result does not meet the initial characteristic, it may cause objectionable distortion that is absolutely unacceptable. The factory is divided into several sections.

One of them is the assembly line. It is the place where workers assemble main components by means of automated machines. Another one is the automatic thermoplast line. The main parts of headlights and lamps are made here in accordance with fixed parameters. One more section is the high-tech aluminum-backing line. It provides a high-quality processing of the ready parts. The process technology is the following: solid aluminum, dissociated into atoms, evenly accumulates on the plastic headlight reflector.
 
The headlights and lamps’ manufacture is a complex technical and technological process. It requires the accuracy to meet all the demands set by the quality control. The up-to-date equipment gives a great advantage. Almost the entire manufacturing process is automated.  All the process, from casting to the final assembly, is mechanized. The workers have only one responsibility – to look after the manufacturing process, and to change the settings which they see on the monitor, if necessary.

As it has already been mentioned, the factory will produce headlights and lamps for Nexia and Matiz. However, in future, it is going to manufacture 18 more items for lightening system. So, it will be possible to provide GM Uzbekistan with needed parts, completely. The distinctive feature of the new technology is its flexibility. Hopefully, there will be an opportunity to set the manufacturing process of new product in a very short period. The manufacturing capacity of the factory is 250 thousand of headlights and lamps car sets per year. The expected volume would cover the needs of GM Uzbekistan and its networks of after-sale car service both in Uzbekistan and beyond.

During the official launch ceremony, Mr. Sok Dong, the president of  Chasys Co Ltd said: “ Despite the global depression, we believe in our company’s success in Uzbekistan. We are impressed by the country’s economic growth and achievements reached by Automobile Industry in such a difficult economic situation. This is our first project here and we are intended to forward. The companies of Chasys Co Ltd Group work not only with illumination systems, but also have technologies to manufacture chassis parts. We have already started looking into the localization issues of their manufacture with Uzavtosanoat JSC.” The second stage is still ahead, and at the moment the light is on.