Faurecia, a global leader in providing engineering solutions and automotive components, recently inaugurated its state-of-the-art tech centre dedicated to Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies (FECT) in Bengaluru. The centre is designed to accommodate some 200 of India’s brightest automotive engineers. It supports the global engineering teams in the design and validation of the entire product range. The technical team that consists of program development leads, specialists in durability, thermo fluids, acoustics simulation, product design and engineering systems will enable the design and validation of emissions control systems for programmes in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. The new state-of-the-art tech centre is spread over 30,000 sq-ft and has a capacity to accommodate up to 360 engineers. Speaking on the occasion, Schmitt said, “Faurecia is the largest emissions control technologies supplier in the world. India has emerged as a very important market for us and we are investing here rapidly so as to introduce the latest emissions control technologies over the next five years
in the view of adapting our products to the evolving Indian legislations (Bharat- IV & Bharat-V).”