Today we visited the German location for Gentex. Many of us are familiar with Gentex because of it’s large presence in West Michigan due to it’s Zeeland plant. While the Zeeland plant is where all their manufacturing is done, the plant in Germany is used mainly for distribution and outputs 300,000 mirrors a week.
The people at Gentex were kind enough to give us a tour of their facilities, provide us with great snacks, and inform us on their business operations. The company understands that car mirrors may become obsolete in the future so they have positioned themselves in other areas of the car industry. This includes becoming industry leaders in electronically dimming windows. They are constantly pushing the boundaries of what their mirror technology can do and working to integrate their products into more vehicles.