SMP® Grapevine manufactures and distributes a complete range of power train cooling products for the automotive aftermarket, and OE/OES markets.Product lines found in the Grapevine facility include Four Seasons, Hayden, ACI,Maxair and CompressorWorks.
SMP® is the largest aftermarket automotive temperature control parts supplier in the industry and is one of the largest new aftermarket compressor manufacturers in the world. By adhering to lean manufacturing principles SMP® remains ahead of its competitors. The products manufactured in Grapevine under different brands include: remanufactured compressors, new compressors, fan clutches, transmission oil coolers, heat exchangers, window lifts, windshield washer pumps, window lift motors, window regulators, window switches, door lock actuators, and numerous automotive HVAC components including multi-flow condensers, plate fin evaporators, and serpentine evaporators for the OEM and aftermarket industry. In a typical year the Grapevine facility can build over 250,000 units.
Four Seasons is the primary climate control supplier to virtually every retailer and buying group in North America. There isn’t a higher quality A/C compressor available in the market today. Our Four Season division processes and ships over 2,000 emergency orders per day in addition to daily stocking orders. We’ve invested in the latest ERP and Forecasting Tools that have paid dividends in a much more accurate forecast to demand. This, combined with collaborative customer planning, has allowed us to ship at a 96% fill rate during our peak season. The Grapevine facility also manufactures and supplies new A/C compressors and related temperature control products under the CompressorWorks brand.
Hayden’s continuous investment in technology allows us to develop products with the highest quality, durability and coverage. Quality controls for our fan clutch and transmission oil cooler lines include mapping O.E. performance, adhering to the strictest vehicle requirements, and testing each product under normal and extreme driving conditions.
ACI Automotive manufactures windshield washer pumps, and window lift motors for the OE automotive industry. ACI monitors the effectiveness of its quality system through extensive interactive plant metrics that give the ACI team access to all the latest information from its processes ensuring that ACI products will be the highest quality with on-time availability.
Maxair Automotive designs and manufactures accumulators, receiver driers, heater cores, hose assemblies, windshield washer pumps, and window lift motors for the OE automotive industry. Maxair capabilities include design to customer parameters using existing and new tooling / equipment / processes specializing in oven brazed aluminum products using the patented Nocolok method. Other processes include TIG / MIG welding, flame brazing, press operations, machining, assembly, and packaging.
The Grapevine facility is ISO/TS16949 quality system certified and houses the engineering group responsible for design, development, and validation of climate control products. Additionally, the ACI line maintains ISO9001:2000 and ISO14001:2004 registrations for all our manufactured products. Traditional and non-traditional customers from our products in Grapevine include major automotive retailers, warehouse distribution and buying groups, transmission specialists, export, performance retailers, OE and OES.
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Premiere: January 8th, 1996
Shoot: December 1995
Location: Hamburg
Director: Laszlo Kadar
Single: Seemann
From the album: Herzeleid
SEEMANN was released as the second single from the debut album HERZELEID.
Biography:
Rammstein was formed in 1993 by an ensemble of factory-weary proletarians raised in East Germany. They took their name (adding an “m”) from the location of a German tragedy where 80 people were injured and killed as the result of a crash during an American Air Force air show. The literal translation of “Ram Stein” is a battering ram made of stone.
Word of Rammstein’s horror/romanticist blend of theater and music – spread quickly – one-time Olympic swimmer Till Lindemann would sometimes sing entire songs engulfed in flame from head to toe. The band’s first album, HERZELEID (English: Heartache), elaborated on the foundations set by the band’s live reputation. Scaling the German charts, and remaining there until the release of the second Rammstein LP some two years later, the album also introduced the band to the world outside of the Germany/Switzerland/Austria region.
As Rammstein’s second album, SEHNSUCHT (English: Longing), was released, the band was playing headlines shows across Europe to crowds of 10,000 to 30,000 people. SEHNSUCHT entered the German charts at number one immediately upon its release and came very close to doing the same in Austria and Switzerland. Within weeks, entries on other countries’ charts had SEHNSUCHT rubbing elbows with The Prodigy, Radiohead, and The Rolling Stones on Billboard’s cumulative Eurochart. From there the fever spread, transcending any perceived language barrier.
MUTTER followed in 2001, REISE, REISE in 2004, and the live collection VOLKERBALL in 2006. LIEBE IST FÜR ALLE DA followed in 2009. A limited edition of the album was packed in a metal suitcase that also housed six sex toys, one for each member of the band.
~ Ed Nimmervoll, Rovi