Press kit

2013 Frankfurt Motor Show 1. Technology Highlights

Hall 5.1 / B12

Sept. 10-22, 2013 Frankfurt (Germany)

Press kit

Contents

Light attitude: materials and processes for lighter cars............................................3 Ford Edge lightweight cold-end system Volkswagen up! complete seats

Green technologies: materials and technologies for emissions control and improved environmental performance..............4 ASDS (Ammonia Storage and Delivery System) SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) Blue Box The Exhaust Heat Recovery Manifold (EHRM) Exhaust valves BioAttitude wall

Comfort and style: solutions for differentiated and personalized vehicles......8 Synthetic decoration parts on Citroën DS3 Premium decoration and surface wall Seating trim wall Sculpted seat covers Sculpted light seatback panel WiCharge on Mercedes-Benz SL center console Retractable touch screen display

Premium quality............................................................ ................................................13 Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class instrument panel Audi A3 two-tone slush instrument panel Mercedes-Benz M&GL-Class complete seats An OASIS of comfort and advanced features Premium bumpers

Legend :

Innovation

Serial production

Light attitude

Materials and processes for lighter cars

Emissions regulation standards are becoming more stringent worldwide. Faurecia designs and develops innovative materials, technologies and processes for lighter cars which consume less fuel. It is estimated that a ten kg reduction in weight is equivalent to a 1g/km in CO2 reduction.

These new metal structures contribute significantly to the optimum levels of comfort and eco-friendliness in the vehicle. The high-tensile steel deployed by Faurecia’s designers provides the same stability and safety as more traditional steel but weighs much less. One of the secrets of success here is the use of laser welding because of the lighter material to weld, but design features such as the built-in headrests also contribute to weight reduction. As a result of these and other measures, the metal structure of the Volkswagen up! is 20 percent lighter than that previously used in city cars. Disposing of the seat is more env ir onment ally friendly than is usually the case with car seats. By eliminating adhesives during installation, the seat is not damaged when broken down into its individual components, making disposal an easier and tidier operation.

Ford Edge lightweight Cold-End System This lightweight concept is based on the serial cold end system currently supplied by Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies on the Ford Edge. It demonstrates the potential for a significant weight reduction (up to -50%), thanks to the combined use of brazing technology and Adaptive valve, but with equivalent acoustic performance. The Adaptive valve is a selfactuated valve located in the intermediate pipe, before the rear muffler. It comprises a tubular body with a swiveling flap linked to an external coiled spring. It significantly contributes to weight reduction, by allowing the total muffler volume to be reduced by up to 50 percent! Due to lower mass, fuel consumption is reduced and durability is increased by at least 150%.

Faurecia • 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show • 1. Technology Highlights

Volkswagen up! complete seat For the Volkswagen up!, Faurecia supplies the complete seats, which were developed in Germany, together with their metal structure and seat mechanisms.

These benefits do not result in any loss of comfort for the driver. Indeed, the seats in the Volkswagen up! compete for comfort and convenience with the seats normally found in larger family cars. The design allows for the integration of seat comfort systems, such as a lumbar-support adjustment, and at the same time enables the seat to be very slim.

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Green technologies

Materials and technologies for emissions control and improved environmental performance

Faurecia has developed a range of green technologies focused on two main themes of prime relevance for automakers worldwide: advanced emissions control technologies and renewable materials, both also contributing to reducing vehicle weight.

SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) Blue Box

ASDS (Ammonia Storage and Delivery System) Anticipating ever more stringent international emissions legislation on nitrogen oxide (NOx) across all regions of the world, Faurecia, the world leader in emissions control technologies, is presenting the Faurecia Ammonia Storage and Delivery System (ASDS), its breakthrough NOx-reduction technology for diesel engines.


Faurecia has high expectations that its ASDS technology will become the new world standard for NOx reduction, just as the Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) has become the world standard for diesel particulate filtration. This conviction is based on the four Faurecia ASDS key advantages over liquid urea AdBlue®/DEF: • faster activation of NOx conversion under cold start conditions, • lower system weight at same service maintenance and refilling, • more than double the ammonia volume per liter available for NOx conversion to nitrogen, • no formation of deposits especially at low temperatures.

The Euro 6 emissions regulation, which will come into force in 2014, has defined drastic NOx level reduction to less than 80 mg/km. The new SCR BlueBox compact mixer technology is designed to meet these extremely severe NOx targets as well as the future Euro 6.2/6.c due 2017 with even stricter NOx levels in real driving conditions. Faurecia is convinced that this close-coupled architecture will become the standard in the coming years. The SCR BlueBox compact mixer enables the SCR catalyst – either with or without a particulate filter – to be located closer to the engine. The key benefit is an improved SCR catalyst light-off to start reducing the NOx quicker. The thermal management of the SCR catalyst is also improved using full insulation of the canning. The SCR BlueBox concept is also compatible with the new generation of SCR coated particulate filter substrate (SCRF or SDPF); it will allow automakers to go back to a twomonolith configuration instead of three (DOC DPF - SCR) which is today’s solution for Euro 5. It also means a further cost reduction and additional weight savings (between 3 and 4kg) as well as some significant CO2 gains.

The Faurecia ASDS is a pure ammonia SCR system –as an alternative to liquid SCR systems– that delivers very precise amounts of ammonia to an SCR catalyst in the exhaust line. This step enables highly efficient removal of NOx from diesel engine exhaust gases for both passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Faurecia is confident that this technology will offer significant advantages to automakers when meeting Euro 6.2, LEVIII and future Euro 7, Tier III emissions regulations for diesel NOx reduction especially for real driving emissions (RDE). 4

The Exhaust Heat Recovery Manifold (EHRM) Systems that recover exhaust heat and use it to help heat a car’s passenger compartment have proved to be effective in saving fuel in hybrid vehicles that otherwise would run the thermal engine for effective cabin heating during cold weather conditions.


Faurecia introduces the Exhaust Heat Recovery Manifold (EHRM), which achieves this goal with a clever new approach to heat recovery. The EHRM integrates the heat recovery function in the exhaust manifold. By doing so, the heat recovery occurs directly at the engine, rather than down the line in the exhaust system, so it is able to collect a greater proportion of the exhaust heat than other systems can, while operating more efficiently. This capability is achieved by enabling the engine coolant to flow through the manifold’s inner and outer skin via a dedicated rail. With the EHRM, in cold weather the hybrid’s passenger compartment is heated up to 50 percent more quickly than configurations in which this system is not employed. This means the vehicle can switch from its gas-burning thermal engine to its electric powertrain earlier, reducing fuel consumption and emissions. When a systemlevel approach to heat recovery is employed, the EHRM acts as an enabler and, in concert with the other powertrain ancillary systems, has been shown to improve fuel economy by as much as 8 percent, thanks to early thermalengine shut-off. The first application of the EHRM has been in the 2013 Ford Fusion. The EHRM also been applied to the 2013 Ford C-MAX hybrid, where it contributes to the vehicle’s excellent fuel economy.

Exhaust valves Valves are essential to reduce noise levels and are a key enabler for lightweight exhaust lines. Acoustic valves are primarily used in a closed position to muffle the sound of the exhaust at low speeds to meet regional noise regulations. Valves are either self-actuated by the flow of exhaust gases or controlled by either a pneumatic or an electric actuator. Presently, non-actuated valves (adaptive valve, in-muffler valve) are mainly used with naturally aspirated engines. Actuated valves (pneumatic or electric) are fully compatible with turbo-charged engines. Both actuated and adaptive valves also can be used to create a sports sound signature.

Adaptive valve

Self-actuated, it is located in the intermediate pipe, before the rear muffler. It comprises a tubular body with a swiveling flap linked to an external coiled spring. The adaptive valve also acts as a major lightweight enabler, by allowing the total muffler volume to be reduced by up to 50 percent. Mainly dedicated to the North American market, this valve has become a big success, and Faurecia will supply to General Motors close to one million valves starting in 2014.

Actuated valve

Controlled by an actuator, this valve is located in the tailpipe, after the rear muffler. It comprises a fabricated or cast tubular body combined with an actuator which can be pneumatic for current applications or electric for upcoming ones. This valve allows the automaker to control the valve flap position as a function of load and speed of the vehicle. Mainly requested by premium German carmakers (Volkswagen/ Audi, BMW, Daimler/AMG), these valves are increasingly gaining interest from North American automakers

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In-muffler valve

Self-actuated, this valve is located inside the rear muffler. It comprises a springloaded flap that hinges on an interface bracket. Mainly dedicated to the Asian market, it significantly muffles the sound of the exhaust at engine idle or very low speeds. This type of low-cost valve is primarily necessary to supply mufflers and cold-end systems in Asia, where silence is the key word.

BioAttitude wall


Developing environmentally friendly and sustainable vehicles requires more than alternative types of powertrains. The emergence of new bio-based, lightweight and recyclable materials inside the car can provide a significant improvement in mileage and emissions reduction as well as in the proportion of the vehicle that can be recycled. Over the past seven years, Faurecia Interior Systems has pursued an initiative to develop such materials, and today that effort has translated to the integration of natural fibers with new polymers for interior structures, yielding substantial benefits. BioAttitude is Faurecia’s ambition to continuously and persistently create a positive impact on vehicle Life Cycle Assessment, reducing weight and CO2 emissions as well as sharply lowering dependence on the oil market. Faurecia’s BioAttitude, which marks its premiere to the general public at the Frankfurt Motor Show is represented through products and processes that Faurecia has developed for using injection and compression methods for parts based on natural fibers. For each of these methodologies, the BioAttitude wall displays a door panel fashioned from the substance.

NAFILean

The first of the three processes is NAFILean (natural fiber for lean injected design), which has been developed to introduce green content into high-performance material for injected instrument panels, door panels and center consoles on such components as trim parts, top covers, and defroster and closure ducts. Faurecia’s NAFILean is the automotive interior market’s unique injected material with natural fibers, which allow for complex shapes and architectures along with weight reduction. NAFILean integrates a natural, hemp-based fiber with polypropylene. This mixture produces injected parts with a substantial 20 to 25 percent weight savings in comparison with standard injection molding parts. It also reduces the overall environmental impact through the components’ lifecycle by 20 to 25 percent. The fiber portion of the mixture is a renewable material, and the industry has validated NAFILean’s endof-life recyclability through the integration within the standard plastics treatment and regeneration processes. Additionally, NAFILean has demonstrated a 40 percent improvement in fit and finish. NAFILean can be used in traditional injection machines and stands as a unique market solution from Faurecia. The world premiere of NAFILean is featured in the door panels of the new Peugeot 308 introduced to the public at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

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BioMat

While NAFILean represents an intermediate step toward a complete bio-based material, Faurecia’s BioMat project is ready to roll out an injection material with a 100 percent biobased material (natural fibers and bio-based matrix), eliminating oil-based materials. Working with partners in universities and the chemical industry such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, Faurecia has developed new processes for extracting substances for the matrix portion of the material from natural sources. In 2012, Faurecia signed an R&D agreement with Mitsubishi Chemicals Corporation to finalize the development of an optimized poly-butylene succinate (PBS) for automotive applications. PBS replaces the polypropylene as the matrix material. In BioMat, PBS is combined with hemp-based fibers to produce a material made totally from natural substances.


In its invention of this product and process, Faurecia was confronted with many inherent technical challenges, including the need to overcome potential biodegradation, ensuring the stability of the matrix when exposed to environmental factors, reducing its high viscosity, dealing with natural variability in fibers, and creating a new process for manufacturing the material. Through a series of patentpending solutions, Faurecia eliminated with the BioMat technology each of the barriers and today offers the global auto market a sound, highly versatile and lightweight natural material that is expected to begin showing up in vehicles on the road as early as 2016.

industry’s dependence on the oil price and helps reduce greenhouse gases and will contribute to a higher recyclability level for future vehicles, as well as to a positive impact on the life cycle assessment.

LignoLite and NFPP

The third path that Faurecia is pursuing consists of innovations in natural-fiberbased materials created by traditional compression processes. Faurecia’s LignoLight material combines wood fibers with oil-based binders. As with NAFILean and BioMat, LignoLite contributes to lightweight rigid parts, but it employs compression, rather than injection, to create the component. Because LignoLite is composed by up to 85 percent wood fiber, it is ecologically balanced. Similarly, the smart (Daimler) citycar features an instrument panel top cover and knee pad made of 50 percent polypropylene and 50 percent flax fibers, whereas the VW Golf door panels include inserts made of similar materials, where natural fibers are used instead of wood fibers in LignoLite. This Natural Fiber PolyPropylene (NFPP) compression technology offers the additional benefit of reduced cycle times by enabling one-step compression and covering process, as applied to the Volkswagen Golf door panel. Accelerating along multiple paths, Faurecia is committed to making the choice of green materials easier and more competitive for the automotive market.

BioMat represents an important progress in the use of natural materials in the automotive marketplace. It reduces the

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Comfort and style

Solutions for differentiated and personalized vehicles

Increasingly, customers expect their vehicles not only to be comfortable but also to fit their individual tastes. Comfort and style are now available in all vehicle segments with Faurecia presenting its most advanced developments in the fields of exhaust personalization, on-board connectivity, advanced seat covers and a whole new experience of vehicle interiors.

Synthetic decoration parts on Citroën DS3


One of the reasons to buy the Citroën DS3 is the large number of available colorful feature options customers can choose from. Faurecia supplies door panels on the driver and passenger side, the cockpit, the central console and door handles for this model. All products are available in different colours (matte and highgloss) and materials that fit the car’s exterior design. The use of film insert moulding technology gives plastic components their colorful visual appeal. Insert moulding is a special injection moulding process that offers a particularly large variety of design options. Prior to injecting the molten plastic, reshaped and printed film is inserted into the injection moulding tool and subsequently trimmed. Shaping the inserted film beforehand enables the application of decoration elements to highly complex shapes. Even symbols can be fitted exactly into the injection moulded part. Using this process, Faurecia is able to produce a finished decoration component in just one step, combining abrasion resistance, great colour depth, a large variety of colours and backlight technology.

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Premium decoration and surface wall Aluminum and wood are increasingly being employed for decoration parts in vehicle interiors. From design, materials and colors through to components, Faurecia has access to a wide range of technologies to make interiors that stand out from the crowd.


Faurecia’s «one-tool-x-surfaces» technology, for example, enables it to produce a variety of wood and aluminum finishes using a single tool. Production can therefore respond flexibly to individual orders from end customers and processes can be made more efficient. Faurecia already offers components for the Audi A6 in a choice of finishes: interior decoration elements for the instrument panel, the front and rear door panels and for the center console are available in two gloss aluminum finishes and one “matte brushed» aluminum finish. These supplement the standard trim specification in micro-metallic aluminum.

Instead of traditional decoration elements, more generously-dimensioned trim surfaces are increasingly being used in vehicle interiors, particularly in the premium segment. The instrument panel of the Mercedes-Benz GLK, for example, contains cut-outs for the air vents, steering lock and navigation system, helping this component to merge effortlessly into the SUV’s stylish interior. As well as aluminum, wood is very much in demand in the automotive industry – particularly in the premium segment. Wood, however, is rather rigid and more difficult to work with. Ligneos from Faurecia Interior Systems overcomes these problems. The technology makes it possible to process large sheets of wood in three dimensions in order to make them lighter and more flexible. As a result, Ligneos is also ideal for larger components such as instrument panels, door panels and seat backs. The wood is flexible and adjusts to the shape of the components. Ligneos gives wooden panels a unique appearance and a very special feel. This technology represents a significant advance in the search for environmentally friendly solutions and for improvements in the passengers’ perception of vehicle interior quality. Faurecia already offers over 40 different woods in matte, gloss and textured finishes for use in vehicle interiors. As a display property only, Faurecia has featured Ligneos on a Lincoln MKZ center console.

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Seating Trim Wall

Sculpted seat covers

Faurecia’s Trim Wall pushes the boundaries of seat design, an area in which conventional rules tend to limit style options, with traditional trim solutions requiring certain types of stitching, for instance. Trim Wall ensures designers are no longer restricted by such technical concerns. It offers a range of decorative solutions—such as special seams and hotfoil applications— that bring new added value to seating trim, which enables designers to offer thousands of different options for textiles and leather.

In order to enable traditional car seats to have a personalized and more modern look, Faurecia is revisiting the weightfunction trade-off for foams and trims. Sculpted covers represent one of the new technologies developed by Faurecia Automotive Seating to respond to this ambition. Traditionally, the shape of the cover is obtained by attaching a loose cover at several points to a foam pad. Faurecia sculpted covers, however, embed 3D shapes and all marking lines on the trim cover itself.


Automakers need a broad array of options, since the seat cover is a key stand-out product, instrumental in forging the brand identity. Trim Wall is a lot more than a simple product catalogue: it represents a palpable product to promote dialogue with designers. Products are presented on real foam fill, allowing designers to see, touch and test the various customization possibilities in context, which can be adapted to any vehicle segment. Trim Wall represents yet another response to the challenge of “mass customization” from global leader and seat specialist Faurecia Automotive Seating.

The seat covers are shaped using Faurecia’s proprietary Cover Carving Technology, which enables designers to break all the rules of traditional automotive trimming processes.. In terms of concavity, the cover face is shaped on a mold; the fabric is held in 3D by a foam layer, creating unconventional surfaces and smooth surface transitions. Secondly, marking lines are completely independent from tie downs and can have a progressive depth and very small radius. Finally, in terms of embossing, 3D surface effects can be created and positioned precisely on the surface of the cover. This sculpting technology also has the advantage of being extremely repeatable and provides an unmatched craftsmanship that would be totally impossible to reach with conventional trimming techniques. Using the same foam pad, sculpted covers can multiply the style variations, opening the path to real seat cover personalization.

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Sculpted light seatback panel Automakers often overlook the back of a front seat. Faurecia introduces in Frankfurt a brand new solution with the Sculpted Light Panel, a high-perceived-quality lightweight back panel using Faurecia’s cover-carving technology, a unique technology which gives life to the back of front seats.


Sharp marking lines, graphical elements and deep 3D shapes enable the designing of a back panel with as much attractiveness as a front seat surface. Using the same material as the front side of the seat procures a very homogeneous style to the seat overall. The curved shape of the Sculpted Light Panel and its attachment to the trim cover offers a very slim seat design, allowing increased knee room for rear passengers.

Sculpted Light Panels are fixed to the trim cover and not to the metal frame; the fit and finish and the quality of the integration into the complete seat is far better, thus avoiding gaps and styling limitations. Since the technology uses compression molds, the tooling cost in comparison to plasticwrapped back panels is only one tenth as much.

WiCharge demonstrated on Mercedes-Benz SL center console Faurecia is aiming at further reinforcing its worldwide leadership in vehicle interiors by integrating comfort and humanmachine interface functionalities in its field of competence, where innovative user functions, such as wireless charging, are key to increasing the added value offered to and by automakers. The wireless charging market is expected to rapidly increase, and expand 50-fold by 2016 versus 2012. Providing a new, exciting and innovative technology for the consumer, fully integrated into the vehicle cabin, WiCharge is the answer to “Always Charged” for enhanced smartphone services, including phone, music, navigation, and Internet access. This process, whereby electrical energy is transmitted from a power source to an electrical load without interconnecting wires, can be located on the instrument panel, the center console or the glove box. On A- and B-segments, WiCharge is placed in a docking station that keeps the smartphone in place, whatever the road conditions. On C-, D- and E-segments, WiCharge can be placed in a hidden area or not, offering high-perceived quality. Simple and efficient!

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Demonstrated at the Frankfurt Motor Show on the center console of the MercedesBenz SL Class, but compatible with all segments, this solution is based on inductive multi-coil technology. It also features a stay-in-place functionality during strong deceleration or crash conditions and produces no interference whatsoever with car electronics. Since this concept is modular, add-ons are possible: additional USB charging, power management and various interfaces. This solution has been developed in partnership with Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions and is based on the Qi standard, defined by a consortium including various mobile phone suppliers.


As of today, two different wireless charging protocols coexist (Qi and Powermat), and to meet the needs of each market and specifically those of the North American market, Faurecia and its partner now are working on the conception and design of a dual system with multi-coil array which charges both protocols.

Retractable touch screen display Whether fixed or retractable, screens are ever more present inside vehicles. As the market for mobile telephony grows, fixed screens have become increasingly tactile, making life on board easier and more enjoyable. However, no retractable touchscreen is currently available on the market today. For that reason, Faurecia has chosen to address this market by developing its own retractable touchscreen display. The movement is fluid and smooth, while the mechanism is robust and reliable. With Faurecia’s fit-and-finish expertise and mechatronics expertise, the retractable display offers high perceived quality to the consumer. Usability is totally optimized and the human-machine interface is dramatically enhanced. For the vehicle buyer, this is a real “wow” effect, with its styled movement and its design that perfectly fits to modern technology.

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Premium quality

Premium can be found in all vehicle segments from the smallest city car to the flagship stretched sedans. Faurecia offers an extensive range of solutions to bring premium to any vehicle segment and demonstrates its expertise on a range of German premium vehicles while introducing its vision of future premium seating, including an array of comfort and advanced features.

Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class instrument panel


Faurecia manufactures the instrument panel of the Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class, which reflects the motto used by Mercedes-Benz when designing the interior: “Pure sportiness, newly interpreted.” The instrument panel has an electroplated finish in “silver chrome,” producing a genuine metallic surface with a pleasantly soft “cool touch” effect (it uses either a TPO foil or a leather surface) and providing a first-rate haptic experience. The work has been executed with considerable care and attention to detail so that it appears to have been molded in one piece.

By using special films with three-dimensional structures, it is possible to create a range of different surface finishes that permit an attractive play of light. The instrument panel incorporates five round vents, the outer rings of which have a high-quality electroplated finish. The airflow direction is governed by an insert that is reminiscent of an aircraft turbine and reveals a meticulous attention to detail. This, too, has an electroplated finish in «silver chrome». The freestanding display screen features a black piano-lacquer-look front panel and a flush-fitting silver frame. Beyond the basic specification, which can be individualized with a wide range of options, a choice of design and equipment lines has been put together with the requirements of customers in mind: «Urban», «Style» and «AMG Sport».

Audi A3 two-tone slush instrument panel The «floating» instrument panel of the Audi A3 gives an unexpected feeling of lightness with its flat upper surface. A two-tone instrument panel, using in-mold pigmentation technology, is also available, offers premium touch at affordable cost. This innovative solution enables two-tone PVC instrument panel slush skins, while maintaining greater freedom of style, since the split line between the two colors can be shaped in all three dimensions. This version includes the DrawBox, an innovative drawerlike glove box, as opposed to the traditional type of downwards-opening glove box.

The instrument panel is clearly divided into a wing-profile-type upper section and an aesthetically influenced lower section. The resulting effect is that the upper section appears to be supported by a “muscle.” The manufacturing process used for this “muscle” allows the creation of varying surface structures with soft tactile qualities.

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Mercedes-Benz M & GL-Class complete seats Complete seats for two different vehicles


Faurecia is proud to supply the complete seats and instrument panel for the Mercedes-Benz M & GL-Class finely crafted interior. The heated, 8-way power front seats are designed for comfort; featuring Faurecia’s pneumatic seat comfort systems (see details below). The multi-contour seats, enhanced by the driver’s 4-way pneumatic lumbar support and 3-position memory, furnish precisely tuned adjustments, including shoulder and thigh support, as well as the side bolsters. They can also offer a gentle or invigorating lower back massage. Generous seat travel adjustment ensures that drivers of all sizes will always find the ideal seating position. A high level of variability characterizes the second-row seats, which incorporate reclining backrests, three adjustable headrests and a folding center armrest. The outboard positions even offer a heating option and an easy-entry function on both sides, allowing convenient access to the third row. Supple, richly grained, doublestitched leather, available in almond beige, gray and black, is hand-fitted to all seating surfaces, even the head restraints.

More about the pneumatic seat comfort system

The optional multi-contour seat of the Mercedes-Benz M & GL-Class offers two main functions: seat adjustment and comfort massage. Using a centralized electric air pump and air tank (located in the cargo area), the Faurecia system serves the control units in the front occupant seats independently. All seat comfort and massage adjustments are easily controlled from the Mercedes-Benz COMAND system and its central color display, which shows a photorealistic image of the seat and allows the occupant to select the desired settings. The seat functions comprise adjustments for lumbar support, seat backrest width and seat cushion length. The lumbar support consists of two air chambers that can be controlled separately or jointly to offer the optimum lumbar support for both front occupants. Seat backrest width adjustment also works with two air chambers (left/right), inserted inside the backrest seat bolsters, enabling occupants to manually adjust the seat width, depending on the desired comfort setting. The seat cushion length adjustment is carried out by three air chambers inflated or deflated simultaneously to offer the best leg and knee support. The solution enables extension of the seat cushion length in 10 positions, up to 120mm. To perform all these functions, Faurecia now masters all the electronics expertise, components and integration capabilities in-house. For the comfort massage functions, seven separate microcomputer-managed massage air chambers in the seat backrest, which stretch from the lumbar area to the shoulder area, are inflated and deflated in accordance with a pre-defined program to stimulate muscles, improve circulation and help to prevent early fatigue. The massage program lasts five minutes and can be restarted at any time once the cycle has finished. In addition, the speed and intensity of back massage can be individually adjusted. Passengers have a choice of numerous settings, ranging from “slow and gentle” to “fast and intense”.

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An OASIS of comfort and advanced features A brand new generation of ultra-premium seats, by Faurecia

Faurecia first introduced OASIS, a luxurious and customized personal space for chauffeured travelers, at Auto Shanghai 2013. The OASIS concept seat gathers the full scope of its know-how into one seat that provides an immediate perception of quality and luxury in design. With high-end functionalities, intelligent kinematics and best-in-class comfort, the OASIS seat is designed for long versions of the world’s classiest chauffeured vehicles.

Multiple configurations for multiple activities


The OASIS seat offers four positions: the entry configuration for entering the vehicle, the upright business position for working and communicating, the entertainment position for enjoying video and audio, and the nearly reclined relaxation position.

In the business position, the passenger works from a large, adjustable screen mounted on the back of the front seat. As soon as the occupant sits in the seat, a “hot key” emerges from a human-machine interface (HMI) at the left hand. With the HMI, the passenger controls all the functions of work, entertainment and comfort systems enveloping the seat, with no more need to choose from among the dozens of buttons and switches that complicate other chauffeured vehicles. Onscreen menus and gestures carry out the functions instead, and the occupant can comfortably work on his or her computer. Somewhat more reclined than the business position, the entertainment position is designed for watching movies and enjoying music. All selections are controlled via the HMI in the center console. With the seat reclined to an almost horizontal orientation, the passenger is supported by individually adjustable leg rests, a distinctive improvement over most vehicles that offer only a single rest for both legs. In this position, the headrest is released to transform into a neck roll. Once reclined, the occupant can command massagers that are applied to the shoulders, back, seat cushion and calves. Twenty massage cells perform shiatsu-like, focused pressure for a strong and effective massage session.

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Innovation you can feel from head to toe

In every position, the advanced comfort adjustments of the OASIS high-quality leather seat add customized dimensions to the experience. A very small head-tracking camera mounted in the back of the front seat detects the height of the OASIS occupant and automatically adjusts the headrest to the right position, while simultaneously adjusting the cushion length and side bolster for optimum comfort


The seat back is adjusted in a new fashion as well. Typically, seat backs recline from a point at the bottom of the seat, but this motion tends to pull on the occupant’s clothing. OASIS reclines from a “natural pivot” point on its own axis, at the

same point where the body rotates around the hip. Moreover, the upper backrest angle can be adjusted independently of the lower portion of the backrest, and its depth can be increased or decreased to match cushion length. Pneumatic side bolsters are adjustable to the occupant’s body and can be positioned tightly, as in a sports seat, or very flat for additional comfort. The interior is partly trimmed in silk that wraps around the outline of the backrest. The HMI creates the impression of a 3D pearlescent effect, like a shell, and other trim is crafted in wood and aluminum. Ambient light is featured in the HMI and around the video screen.

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Premium bumpers Faurecia, Europe’s leader in automotive exteriors, displays at the Frankfurt Motor Show four examples of premium bumpers from Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. These demonstrate its bestin-class performance in engineering, thermoplastic injection, painting and assembly to meet the outstanding requirements in terms of perceived quality of the German premium brands.

Audi A6 Allroad front bumper

Faurecia produces, paints and supplies just-in-sequence the front and rear bumpers, including the rocker panels, of the Audi A6 for all its versions (Sedan, Avant and Allroad) and different trim versions. Faurecia bumpers reflect the high perceived quality expected by Germany’s leading automakers in the premium segment. Faurecia’s process capabilities ensures faultless painted surfaces, an exact management of fit and finish in line with the premium requirements of Audi, as well as a perfect integration of all electronic features such as cameras, sensors and design components such as the SingleFrame grille.


BMW 3-Series GT

The bumpers on this version, available in five finishes (Base, Modern, Luxury, Sport and the optional M sport package) are produced, painted, assembled and delivered complete by Faurecia. They offer improved aerodynamics with a front fascia that accentuates the car’s sporty personality and matches the contoured headlights, more prominent than those on the sedan. Faurecia also manufactures the respective rocker panels. The optional M Sport package gives the new BMW 3-Series Gran Turismo a shot of adrenaline that spreads beyond its exterior and interior design. The exclusive optional exterior paint shade Estoril Blue metallic (on display on the Faurecia booth) ensures an unmistakably sporty appearance and unbeatable road presence.

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Porsche 911, 50th anniversary edition


Faurecia produces, paints and supplies justin-sequence the front and rear bumpers for all Porsche 911 versions, including the 50th anniversary edition (on display on the Faurecia booth). Chrome trim strips on the front air inlets of the front bumper emphasize the distinctive appearance of this limited edition model. Two unique colors are available for the anniversary 911, a darker graphite grey and a lighter geyser grey metallic (featured). In addition, black monochrome is also available.

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About Faurecia Faurecia is the world’s sixth-largest automotive equipment supplier with four key Business Groups: Automotive Seating, Emissions Control Technologies, Interior Systems and Automotive Exteriors. In 2012, the Group posted total sales of €17.4 billion ($22.5 billion). At December 31, 2012, Faurecia employed 94,000 people in 34 countries at 320 sites, including 30 R&D centers. Faurecia is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange and trades in the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC) market. For more information, visit us at: www.faurecia.com Photo credits: Audi, BMW, Citroën, Daimler, Porsche, Volkswagen, Faurecia

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