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Press Release

Continental Presents Innovative Products & Services for China Aftermarket on automechanika Shanghai 2015

A wide range of ATE, ContiTechand VDO brand aftermarket products will be presented on the exhibition.

Local market profits from a large portfolio of high-quality, state-of-the-art products and solutions at affordable prices.

Brand new Continental windscreen wiper product portfolios inspire driving experience for end users.

Shanghai/China, 2 to 5 December 2015. The Continental Corporation, one of the leading international automotive suppliers, is exhibiting at Booth F44 in Hall 2 at the 11th Automechanika, held in the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from December2 to 5, 2015. The ContiTech division presents drive belt solutions in OE quality for the Chinese spare parts market and its tried-and-tested air suspension systems for commercial vehicles. Under the ATE and VDO brands, Continental presents a wide range of products and services for the automotive independent aftermarket to enhance efficiency, comfort, safety and eco-friendliness on the Chinese market. In addition, our brand new windscreen wiper series applied Continental tire rubbertech will be rolled out during the exhibition, which means wheel tech are used for windscreen for the first time, to provide inspiration driving experience for safety, low-noise and robust performance.

ContiTech Strengthens Aftermarket Service

The automotive aftermarket segment of ContiTech Power Transmission Group will not only display its broad range of V-belts, V-ribbed belts, and timing belts as well astoolkitsfor the Chinese automotive aftermarket, and also launch a number of convenient and quick after-sale servicesaccording to the market demands. For example, the users can query the specific information of products only using the smart phones to scan the QR code on the product package without installing any software. The users can also visit the PIC interface ofcompany website to enter the part number for detailed product information at once. On October 21 of this year, the Tmall flagship store of ContiTech drive belt greatly filled the gap of the company in e-commerce, which met the demands for obtaining high quality products of the terminal consumers. ContiTech air spring and systems will be also staged at the exhibition. With its strength in the aftermarket of original host, ContiTech can provide the same high quality and high performance products for aftermarket. ContiTech Air Spring Systemsis continuously expanding its product range, strengthening the domestic research and development, and is committed to provide first-class solutions and after-sales services to many domains, such as passenger cars, trucks and trailers.

ATE Brake System Expert

VDO Automotive Electromechanical Master

As one of the leading OE brake system developers and suppliers in the European markets, the ATE product brand sets the standard for quality, market expertise, and scope of delivery and stable margins, with more than 100 years of expertise in the field of brake systems. ATE offers a broad range of spare parts for brakes and corresponding services, while VDO provides original replacement parts for engine and central locking system actuators, fuel systems, sensors, HVAC blower and fan systems, screen and headlight washer systems* and tire pressure monitoring systems* as well as a multi-brand diagnostics system* and diesel repair service* (products or services with “*” marks are not available in China). With its electronic, mechatronic and market expertise, VDO is the sustainable partner to trade and repair shops in the independent aftermarket sector, delivering perfect-fit, future-securing products and solutions that cover today’s and tomorrow’s business requirements. Both strong brands are on view with a wide range of products and solutions for local markets, offering high quality and state-of-the-art technology at an affordable price.

Continental Windscreen Wipers Originates from RubberTech

Continental tire, which is well-known by end-users, has long enjoyed a good reputationin the industry, makes contributions to create a safe driving environment, and each product tries best to bring you safe, comfortable, quiet, racing sports universal rubber tire experience. Now, the interactive distillation refining of Little Brother Ma applied the wheel technology was for your fun experience driving by bringing new Continental wiper products to the car owners that love Germany Continental tire, refraining from the hidden trouble caused by the rain and mud stains on the windscreen, and letting clean bright vision accompany your safe driving every day.

Silent: Continental wiper productsuse the tire rubber to make strip, whose unique sportive soft rubber technology has also been unreservedly applied into each wiper. Combined with the design of special design of metal patch of strip and spray-up carbon powder technology, the Continental wiper strip is extremely soft with good toughness, which perfectly fits with the windscreen arc surface and operates smoothly, thus getting rid of the annoying scratch. The risk of wear of the windscreen is significantly reduced due to the use of soft rubber.

Clean:Another significant feature of Continental wiper is its high wiper clean rate. The design of each type of wiper product is fit and matched to the radian curve of windscreen of applicable models, so as to ensure the perfect fitting. The stains, grease, mud particles and other debris can disappearafter a scratching motion, and restore clean bright vision.

Safe and Durable: because of the outstanding silent feature and high wiper clean rate, the factors that interfere with the driver is reduced, so as to improve the concentration of the driver, which avoid the safety accidents caused by the unclear line of sight to some extent. The durability of Continental wiper rubber includes that the resistance to ultraviolet radiation and abrasion are higher than other similar products, and it simulates and verifies the various situations of car owners in daily use through the high and low temperature test, salt spray test, vibration test and fluid test, so as to ensure the product quality and provide a more durable service life.

Media Contact

Che Li
Communications Manager China
Continental
Division ContiTech
22F Tian An Center, 338 Nanjing West Rd,
200003 Shanghai, P.R.China
Tel: +86 21 6141 8324

Fax: +86 21 6141 8326
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Daniel Zhang

Continental Automotive CVAM

Marketing Communications Manager China

538 Dalian Road, 200082

Shanghai, P.R. China

Phone: +86 21 6080 3000-4727

Fax: +86 21 6080 3650

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