www.faurecia.com

Faurecia, a force for automotive progress

Faurecia is a world-leading automotive supplier of six major vehicle modules: seats, cockpits, doors, acoustic packages, front ends and exhaust systems. With a workforce of 60,000 at 190 sites in 28 countries, Faurecia is currently a key partner to all major automakers and holds leading market positions for all six of the major vehicle modules it designs, develops, manufactures and delivers.

In 2007, the Group posted sales of €12.7 billion making it Europe’s second biggest equipment supplier and the eighth largest worldwide.

With world-class automotive industry expertise, Faurecia pursues a steadfast policy of continuous progress, improvement and innovation right from the outset of the development cycle until the end of series production.

Faurecia’s worldwide network of 28 R&D centres, staffed by a highly skilled workforce of over 3,500 engineers and technicians, is constantly developing the products that will be appearing in tomorrow’s vehicles. The Group's dedicated teams of experts take up this task with priority attention to environmental protection, safety (for drivers, passengers and pedestrians), comfort, perceived quality (in vehicle build and design), and the constant pursuit of operational excellence.

Two themes in particular lie behind many of the Group's research and development activities. These include standardization and a focus on "premium" solutions. In the first case, the Group is working on the development of component platforms that enable Faurecia's engineers to offer customers a single architectural solution "off the shelf". Such solutions require less time and money to develop and leave customers with enough design freedom to be able to adapt the product for specific vehicles.

Secondly, Faurecia also focuses its efforts on the premium segment, which is one of the fastest growing markets in the industry.

In 2007, Faurecia introduced its Premium Attitude concept, which reveals the next generation of innovations available to automakers both for the vehicle interior as well as for the front end and exhaust systems. Premium Attitude provides a concrete demonstration of Faurecia’s ability to create new design innovations and to integrate them as feasible engineering solutions in a complete concept vehicle.

In 2007, Faurecia allocated an R&D budget of €613 million, amounting to 4.8% of sales.

Faurecia’s production system is specifically geared to supporting the development initiatives of its automaker customers. From the front line of automotive industry innovation, Faurecia meets the requirements of today’s globalized cost structures while addressing strong demand for distinctive vehicle features, as expressed by a large majority of motorists.

At the same time, it pursues standardization, both in response to automakers’ needs and as demanded to solve the increasingly tough economic equations facing equipment suppliers, who today bear the full weight of development costs.

Over one third of Faurecia production facilities are just-in-time plants capable of responding within three hours to demand coming in from client assembly lines. Then there are component sites, in Western Europe and low-cost countries, run for optimized purchasing, manufacturing and transport costs.

Faurecia
2, rue Hennape
92735 Nanterre cedex
France

Phone : 33 (0)1 72 36 70 00
Fax : 33 (0)1 72 36 70 07
Web: www.faurecia.com

 

 

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