Happy Holidays and Prosperous New Year 2016
Hector Fratty and all of us at Driving Vision News wish you a grand holiday season and send you our friendly best wishes for this coming year. We’re here, doing…
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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.
Prosperous New Year
We hope you are spending nice festivities and you will be soon ready and happy to start the New Year. I send you my friendly wishes for this coming year.…
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DVN Workshop: Last 2 Sponsorships Available
After successful events in Stuttgart, Paris, Detroit, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Seoul, the 12th DVN Workshop will take place in New Delhi, India, on the 9th and 10th of this coming February at the Crowne Plaza hotel, located in the Greater Noida area close to the Delhi Auto Expo which will be open until the 9th. Online registration is available now.
The rubric for the Delhi Workshop is “Lighting Systems: Affordable Technologies and Energy Saving”. It will bring together around 200 professional automotive lighting participants: directors, managers, experts, researchers and technicians. An exceptional lineup of international guests and speakers from Europe, America, Japan, and Korea will be present for the occasion, representing the global lighting community. Lectures will include presentations from international and Indian experts, considering styling, affordable rear and front lights, LED, ADB, actuators, optical systems, lenses, simulation, and measurement tools.
14 companies have already stepped up to sponsor the event and exhibit their products—leaving just two more sponsorships available.
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SABIC Car Windows Integrate Lighting Features
SABIC, having shown prototype polycarbonate car windows with integrated lighting features at ISAL last Autumn, are actively working to develop and eventually commercialise
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US Patent for Carbodeon LED Polymers
European company Carbodeon have been granted a US patent for their technology that allows detonation-synthesised diamond particles (nanodiamonds) to be combined with polymers
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Fancy Films for Buyable Biosensors
FEP and ISIT—the Fraunhofer Institutes for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology and for Silicon Technology, respectively—have successfully
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Osram in Market Pickup for LED Chip Cost Drivedown
Osram say raising their share of semiconductor sales from the global lighting market could help them reduce the total cost of producing chips for LEDs at their new factory
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New LED Lights from Bajaj
Indian electrical goods maker Bajaj Electricals have launched a new range of advanced LED lights. The company say the new products are modern and highly efficient
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Valeo’s CEO Aschenbroich: Another Year of Growth
While 2015 will be “another year of growth for Valeo”, CEO Jacques Aschenbroich is “keeping the pace regarding technological revolutions,” says Décideurs magazine,
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Mahindra to Buy Pininfarina in $185m Deal
Mahindra & Mahindra have agreed to buy Italian car designer Pininfarina in a deal worth about €168m (USD $185m), underscoring the Indian vehicle maker’s international ambitions.
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