Valeo Group | 7 Mar, 2023
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This 12 months, Valeo celebrates its 100th anniversary. Now a century into its industrial journey, the Firm is a front-ranking participant in sustainable mobility.
Valeo has undergone a radical transformation over the previous 100 years, and the Group has managed to anticipate the numerous adjustments within the mobility house. And these adjustments are accelerating, with their scale and tempo unprecedented lately: the combat in opposition to local weather change is accelerating the event of electrical mobility; more and more superior driving help programs are delivering enhancements in highway security; and the inside expertise is being reinvented whereas lighting is being reworked, resulting in new options and new makes use of in several areas of the automobile.
Consequently, Valeo has turn out to be a world chief in every of its companies, with its applied sciences current in all areas of mobility and past: one in three new automobiles worldwide is supplied with Valeo’s driving help know-how, and one in three automobiles worldwide is supplied with Valeo’s CO2-reducing electrical programs.
Its options at the moment are utilized in all types of mobility, from electrical micro-mobility (bikes, e-scooters, e-motorbikes, and so forth.) to new types (driverless taxis, supply droids, and so forth.), to make them electrical, safer and extra autonomous. Using Valeo applied sciences has additionally prolonged exterior the automotive world to infrastructure and new providers: visitors administration, pedestrian security, sensible lighting in public areas, electrical automobile charging and knowledge heart cooling.
And Valeo will proceed to innovate for a safer, low-carbon world. Valeo is the world’s main French patent applicant in keeping with the rankings printed in June 2022 by France’s mental property institute (INPI). It is usually dedicated to serving to obtain carbon neutrality by 2050.
Christophe Périllat, Valeo’s Chief Government Officer, commented: “We’re celebrating an amazing industrial journey this 12 months. 100 years of historical past, drive and dedication. 100 years of placing our industrial excellence to work for our automaker prospects in new automobiles, and our distributor prospects within the aftermarket, working to make cutting-edge know-how accessible to the widest market and to fulfill the very best automotive requirements.”
The Valeo journey started in 1923 in France, in a workshop close to Paris the place the primary brake linings have been manufactured. The corporate grew its operations, increasing all through France earlier than going worldwide: first inside Europe, then Brazil, and finally worldwide. A century later, Valeo is now a associate know-how firm to the world’s main automakers. That small workshop has grown to turn out to be a world big with operations in 29 nations and a workforce of 109,900 workers.