North American Lighting, Inc., is the largest non-affiliated lighting supplier in North America. NAL has been manufacturing lighting products for the majority of vehicle manufacturers in North America since 1983. The company began as a joint venture and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of Japan.


Our Mission

To provide the highest customer satisfaction and value by providing best-in-class lighting products through the integration of people, technology and business systems.

Headquarters and Advanced Forward Lighting Operations
Paris, Illinois

NAL moved into new corporate offices in Paris, Illinois, in October of 2005.

Considered the best automotive-lighting assembly plant in the world, this facility houses cutting edge manufacturing technologies and processes while manufacturing new technology forward lighting systems such as HID (High Intensity Discharge) and AFS (Adaptive Forward Lighting).

Forward Lighting Operations
Flora, Illinois

This facility is where we produce headlamps, fog lamps and auxiliary combination systems.

Signal Lighting Operations
Salem, Illinois

Twenty-five miles west of Flora is our Salem facility where we produce signal lamps such as rear combination lamps, tail lamps, backup lamps, license plate lamps and rear appliques.

Both our Flora and Salem facilities are benchmarks as world-class standards for producing best-in-class, high-quality products. At all of our facilities, empowered employees ensure quality through continual education, integrated production cells, JIT/KANBAN systems and production line fail-safe testing. Our manufacturing process is based on the Koito Production System (TPS), which ensures that costs are closely controlled, inventories are held to a minimum, engineering changes are implemented quickly and deliveries are on time.

Signal Lighting Operations
Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Built to respond to increasing car production in the Southern Part of the United States, the Muscle Shoals facility will produce signal lamps, similar to those produced at our Salem facility.

Technology Center
Farmington Hills, Michigan

Our close proximity to our customers' design centers allows us to quickly respond to customer needs. The center includes Sales and Marketing, Design Engineering, Program Management, R&D, and a Model Shop. Our in-house styling department acts as a conduit between vehicle stylists and our lighting engineers to translate styling concepts into feasible realities.