Following the successful takeover of Hella by Faurecia, the two companies made their first joint appearance at an automotive trade fair under the new umbrella brand Forvia.This year’s Automotive Engineering Exposition at Yokohama, Japan late last month featured a Forvia expo with technologies for safe, sustainable, advanced, and customised mobility for the first time as…
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.