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Faurecia, one of the world’s leading automotive technology companies, announced today the creation of a new division to develop and manufacture cutting-edge sustainable and smart materials. The new division will benefit from Interiors’ and Faurecia Seating’s leading market positions and unique portfolios in materials with ultra-low and negative CO2 emissions, as well as materials integrating thermal, acoustic and bio-medical technologies.
Leveraging Faurecia’s global footprint, the Sustainable Materials division will work across Business Groups and propose a full cockpit low CO2 and even CO2 negative materials approach to OEMs in order to support their sustainability objectives. Faurecia will capitalize on its experiences of formulating bio-sourced materials and their transformation expertise including low variability management.
Faurecia is planning to build a dedicated Sustainable Materials R&D Center and a Pilot plant both operational in 2022. This new entity will initially employ 125 engineers and over 400 in 2030.