Faurecia Buy DesignLED to Get Into Interior Lighting

Scottish flexible LED lighting technology specialist DesignLED have been bought by automotive equipment giant Faurecia. The entire designLED team will transfer to Faurecia and will continue to develop its technology from its current base. “This is a hugely important and exciting milestone in the evolution of designLED,” said DesignLED CEO Stuart Bain. “In recent years…

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Hector Fratty

Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.