IN FOCUS
NAME: Dietmar Hunecke
COMPANY: Mubea Automotive Components China
POSITION: Managing Director
LOCATION: Taicang, China
Everyone loves a story that begins with an apprenticeship and ends with a top job in a corner office. Such is the inspiring journey of Dietmar Hunecke, who started out as a toolmaker at Mubea’s headquarters in Attendorn, Germany nearly four decades ago and is now Managing Director of Mubea Automotive Components China.
His challenges, particularly since taking on the role in mid-2019, have been monumental, mostly triggered by external circumstances such as China’s decreasing automotive market and COVID-19. “Sometimes I apologise, joking with my people at Mubea that since I took over, the crises have come,” Dietmar laughs.
Mubea is a global leader in the development and production of automotive parts, a specialist for high-strength spring components and other lightweight products for chassis, lightweight car bodies and powertrains. It employs 14,300 people in 45 locations around the world and has been an owner-operated family company since it was founded in 1916, with the name derived and trademarked in 1931 by combining the two founding families’ names.
“The first family is Muhr, giving the M-U, and the second family is Bender, so you have the B-E. The A is for Attendorn, which is still the global headquarters of Mubea,” Dietmar explains.
This story is from the March 2021 edition of The CEO Magazine Asia.
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