AUBURN HILLS – Faurecia North America, the region?s sixth-largest automotive supplier, celebrated the opening of its new North American Headquarters and Automotive Seating Technical Center Wednesday.
The 278,000 square foot facility includes a prototype metal shop; trim development lab; just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing lab; structural testing lab; environmental testing chambers; noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) and electrical lab; and semi-anechoic chamber for sound testing.
The site also features an information sharing hub called the Innovation Plateau. This area serves as a creative center for Faurecia employees to foster ideas and inspire new technology developments for the company?s seating business. Faurecia University North America, the company?s local training arm, also calls the Auburn Hills headquarters building home. Faurecia University coordinates the professional development of employees across the region.
More than 700 people are based in the new building.
In North America, Faurecia had sales of $6.25 billion in 2013. It employs more than 20,000 people at 47 locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
With operations at 76 sites in 25 countries, Faurecia Automotive Seating is the world leader in the manufacture of high-performance seating mechanisms, global-standard frames and advanced mechatronics systems. The company ranks in the top three for production of complete seats and is renowned for its seating innovations that provide smart comfort solutions. North America is the second-largest region for Faurecia Automotive Seating, following Europe.
