Tier-2s: Profiles in Innovation
Some tier-2 companies are well known big names: Philips, Osram, Matsushita…most of us have heard of them. But a great many tier-2 suppliers have a harder time getting noticed and…
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Hector Fratty
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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.
AML: Levelers, Cleaners, Actuators for Lights
AML Systems are an independent company with considerable expertise gained from long experience with a wide customer base over more than two decades’ work in lighting and actuator development. This was achieved as the in-house department of Valeo Lighting Systems responsible for the design, manufacture, and commercialisation of actuators and headlamp cleaning systems. They were spun off from Valeo and on 1 July 2010 a management team took control consisting of CEO Eric Julien; VP of Sales & Business Development Jean-Eric Peugeot, COO Denis Goudigan, and financial partners led by Syntegra Capital with a strong innovation and growth program.
Design and production
AML have three product ranges: levellers, lighting actuators, and headlamp cleaning systems. These are produced at Hirson in France and at Wuxi, Jiangsu province in China.
37 R&D people led by Ludovic Toulisse develop the products, and 300 people produce 17 million levellers, 3 million lighting actuators and 1 million headlamp cleaning systems per year generating close to €70m in annual sales. This Eurasian footprint allows AML to supply global platforms and fulfil the needs of their customers worldwide.
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GTB Chief to Chair Panel Talks at DVN Japan Workshop
At this summer’s DVN Workshop in Tokyo, GTB President Geoffrey Draper will chair a “round table” panel discussion on how the UN regulatory system might best adapt to
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Car Lights as Eco Innovation: CLEPA LSS Paper
Clepa’s LightSightSafety Initiative has prepared a paper about innovative technology for reduced power consumption by car lights compared with current technology. The
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You Are There: GTB Headlamp Level Test at DEKRA
Following the decision taken by GTB at the Dresden session in late 2011 to evaluate the safety effects of automatic headlamp levelling, GTB Front Lighting Working Group
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ADAS Biz Unit at Continental
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Friedrich Angerbauer, 47, took over as head of the new ADAS Business Unit in Continental’s Chassis & Safety Division; the new business unit is based in Lindau. This was a
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Successful Start Boosts Continental’s Confidence
For the third year in a row, the Continental Corporation have got off to a good start in the first three months of 2012. In terms of sales and EBIT, the first quarter again
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Renault Fndn Launch 1 st EV Diploma
The Renault Foundation and IUT technology institute in Mantes (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin), are launching a new training course and the first professional
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Bentley CEO, VW Market Chief May Go To Audi
Bentley CEO Wolfgang Duerheimer and Volkswagen marketing chief Luca de Meomay move to Audi as part of a broad management rearrangement at the VW Group’s
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New Opel Adam Will Compete with Mini, 500
Opel/Vauxhall say their new 3-door minicar to be launched in 2013 will be called Adam. Opel aim to move upscale and rival cars such as the Fiat 500 and Mini, describing the
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