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Faurecia targets a small number of key automotive businesses and contributes to them in terms of style, differentiation, comfort, safety, elegance, perceived quality or the environmental performance of an automaker’s vehicle.
In each of these businesses, we hold a place among the top three world leaders.
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Seats
As a specialist in seat, architecture, Faurecia designs and assembles seats and makes their principal components. These are frames, adjustment mechanisms, foams and upholstery.
Innovation in our seating product line articulates around new seat architecture that combines safety performance with weight reduction and premium solutions that enable differentiation in terms of comfort and perceived quality.
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| Seat assembly line at Auburn Hills (USA) |
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Vehicle interior
Because the ergonomics, comfort and style of its interior influence the decision to purchase a vehicle, Faurecia designs and produces instrument panels, central consoles and door panels that meet both the expectations of final customers and the requirements of automakers. We are able to offer the most advanced solutions in terms of passenger safety, interior fittings or weight reduction.
In acoustic package, we offer customers not just products; we offer the skills of experts who use analytical and simulation tools to optimize soundproofing through insulation and sonic absorption.
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| Instrument panel finishing at Chongqing (China) |
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Front end
Faurecia’s modular approach to front ends optimizes functional integration, weight reduction and the reduction of assembly time and costs. Such optimization contributes to enhancing the perceived quality of the vehicle.
Today, our R&D teams are working to improve motor cooling, absorption of shock and pedestrian safety.
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| Front end quality control at Marines (France) |
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Exhaust systems
A benchmark supplier for most international automakers, Faurecia is continuing efforts to meet increasingly strict international exhaust system standards. We want to offer tomorrow’s innovative solutions for automobile exhausts. Inventor in 2003 of the diesel particulate filter system, we are today working on new technologies for the treatment of nitrogen oxide.
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| Monolith test at East London (South Africa) |
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 Worldwide ranking by business in 2007
| Seats |
3 |
| Vehicle interior |
1 |
| Front end |
2 |
| Exhaust systems |
1 |
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| Source : most recent Faurecia estimate |
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