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Our team in Tunisia took a break from their groundbreaking work and came together for a party last month. While we work hard every day, it's nice to have fun with our co-workers and enjoy a special lunch in the beautiful weather.
Aashish Bhatia, Vice President and General Manager of Visteon India, visited Sawali Nivara Kendra, a shelter run by Real Life Real People, an NGO based out of Pune. As part of our CSR initiatives, we have been working with this organization for a year now, assisting with some of their needs. Sawali Niware Kendra provides shelter to homeless and challenged individuals.
Last week, we opened the doors of our biggest technology center in Europe--in Sofia, Bulgaria--to the next generation of engineering talent. Students from technical universities got to experience what it feels like to work in the most dynamic and exciting area of technology. “Our technologies change the way people connect with the world through their vehicles each and every day. Your work will be recognized by millions of drivers around the world,” said Loick Griselain, Regional Vice President and General Manager for Europe, as he welcomed the students. During the day students learned what it means to work on future technologies and be part of our game-changing team in Sofia. They witnessed some of our flagship products featured in Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen and Peugeot products.
Our electrification team attended a town hall led by Tao Wang, Vice President and CTO—Electrification. During the event, the team shared market trends, business updates and spoke about the busy launch cadence.
Last week our team in India hosted Sachin Lawande, President and CEO, Kristin Trecker, CHRO, Bob Vallance, Senior Vice President Global Customer Business Groups, New Technology Product Lines, and General Manager APAC region and Qais M. Sharif, Vice President, Display Product Lines, and General Manager Americas region. During their visit, the executive team inaugurated the new facility in Goa; visited the offices in Bangalore and Chennai; interacted with various teams; provided insights about market and business; and kicked off the celebrations of 25 years of Visteon in India. Our growth in India is spurred by the ideas, innovation and commitment of our 2,000-strong workforce across Bangalore, Chennai, Goa and Pune. We recently set foot in Coimbatore and Trivandrum as well. Visit Visteon careers to learn more about the opportunities in India.
Visteon was a proud partner of the International Automotive & Mobility Forum 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria. We had the pleasure of sharing the stage with the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Minister of Innovation and Growth, fellow industry experts and colleagues to discuss best practices in the automotive industry, impacting Southern and Eastern Europe (SEE). Investing in people is the most important ingredient in creating solutions for the for the automotive industry’s sustainable development mission message noted Bulgaria's President. Here at Visteon we share that sentiment.
The manufacturing team in India hosted Qais M. Sharif, Vice President, Display Product Lines, and General Manager of the Americas region. Qais reviewed the production capacity for existing and new business, and the manufacturing footprint. Visteon is expanding its manufacturing capabilities in India to include state-of-the-art optical bonding solutions. The new facility will be ready by mid-2023. Optical bonding is a process that fills the air gap between the touch panel and the actual display (e.g. LCD, OLED) with a refractive index-matched optically clear adhesive (OCA) to drastically reduce reflections. This method improves readability both indoors and outdoors, and the enhanced display performance leads to a much-improved user experience. The market in India is quickly evolving towards adopting digital cockpits.
We are excited to welcome a new group of RISERS in Queretaro, Mexico today. They will work with some of the best minds at Visteon and contribute to the transformation of the automotive industry.
The Visteon Querétaro Technical Center (VTCQ) is home to highly skilled software, hardware and mechanical engineers developing advanced cockpit electronics products and electrification technologies for North America-based vehicle manufacturers.
We recently inaugurated a large-scale high-tech laboratory in Bulgaria. This is the first of its kind in the country. The products produced by Visteon’s engineering centers in Europe —for the global automakers-- will be tested in this lab. The tests include: simulating a range of real-world scenarios, including extreme in-car environments that vehicles around the world must deal with. This is also the only laboratory in Bulgaria that performs tests for electromagnetic compatibility and resistance of the device to electromagnetic interference.
