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Founded in 1902, 3M is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. As a world-renowned diversified multinational corporation, 3M has invented a wide range of innovative and useful products that make people’s lives better. Half of the world’s population uses one or more 3M products every day, with more than 60,000 kinds of products in its a-hundred-plus history, ranging from household to healthcare, from transportation, construction to business, education, electronics and telecommunication, etc.
3M owns 45 core technologies which create a total solution for automotive engineering. Today, 3M makes more than 1,000 different products for the automotive industry. All the product can provide the solutions cover interior and exterior decoration, attachment and bonding systems, surface enhancement, electronic and lighting, thermal management, noise, vibration and harshness.
Alcantara® has been making our everyday extraordinary. Thanks to its versatility, this material is selected by those who search for emotions through sensorial gratification and aesthetic pleasure, without giving up on functionality. Born in 1972 from a real technology breakthrough, Alcantara® is produced in Nera Montoro, in Umbria and it is one of the glories of Made in Italy production.
Alcantara® is now a fundamental component of car design. The successful relationship between this extraordinary material and the most important international car manufacturers has grown through time, and it is now solid, and always rich with new, surprising results: the company offers tailored solutions to fulfill the needs of the most demanding customers. Anti-static, breathable, anchoring, Alcantara® is now considered the material that can provide car interiors with a new quality. Functionality and resistance make it suitable for intensive use, while elegance and comfort renew driver’s satisfaction on a daily basis.
Alcantara® is the first completely sustainable Italian-made product. As part of an important sustainability project the company has attained “Carbon Neutral” certification relative to the entire production process of the Alcantara® material. This means zero carbon dioxide emissions.
The relevance of this result is further emphasised by the voluntary nature of the entire operation. In fact, compensating for all carbon dioxide emissions is not a legal obligation but rather a specific company objective, and one that keeps it permanently at the cutting edge.
Alcantara website
Eagle Ottawa traces its beginnings back to the horse-and-buggy trade when Eagle Tanning was founded in 1865 in Whitehall, Michigan (USA). By 1910, with the horse-drawn transportation business in decline, the tannery started supplying car seat upholstery to the automotive industry in Detroit. Eagle Tanning Works merged with Ottawa Leather Company in 1916 and became Eagle Ottawa Leather Company. In 1961, the company became a subsidiary of Trostel Industries and now is owned by the holding company Everett Smith Group.
With longstanding tradition of blending "old world" craftsmanship with leading-edge technology, Eagle Ottawa creates customized grains, textures, aromas and high-durability performance to surprise and delight the most discerning of tastes. It provides award-winning finished hides, cuts leather parts and complete interior leather solution engineering services for more than 30 customers. More than 100 current brands use Eagle Ottawa leather worldwide including: Acura, Audi, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, Honda, Hummer, Hyundai, Infiniti, KIA, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Opel, Renault, Toyota and Volkswagen.
A more comfortable, safe and sustainable world.
Whether you’re at home, in a car, or in an office or workplace, chances are there’s a Johnson Controls product or service nearby, helping to make your environment more comfortable, safe and sustainable.
We provide innovative automotive interiors that help make driving more comfortable, safe and enjoyable. For buildings, we offer products and services that optimize energy use and improve comfort and security. We also provide batteries for automobiles and hybrid electric vehicles, along with systems engineering and service expertise.
Automotive Experience: Global leader in interior systems for light vehicles including passenger cars and light trucks. Systems supplied include seating, overhead, door, instrument panels, electronics.
Power Solutions: World’s largest manufacturer of lead acid automotive batteries and developer of advanced battery chemistries and hybrid technology. Products provided include hybrid and lead acid batteries which can meet various kinds of requirements.
Building Efficiency: Leading full-line service provider of mechanical equipment as well as systems that control heating, ventilating, air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, security and fire management in non-residential buildings. Services include complete mechanical and electrical maintenance.
RTT provides 3D real-time visualisation technology and services for innovative workflows in the automotive, aerospace and consumer goods industries as well as in the fields of interior design and architecture. It supports customers in coming up with new ways of how to design and to market their products.
Among RTT’s customers, one can find Adidas, Agusta, Airbus, Applus Airon Technic, Audi, BASF, Bertrandt, BMW, Bosch, Carbon Motors Corporation, Changchun Railway, China Faw Group Corporation, Chrysler, Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), Daimler,Demag-ergothech, Dodge, EADS, EDAG, Faurencia, Fiat, Ferrari, Ford, General Motors, Hakuhodo, Harley-Davidson, Hawker Beechcraft, Holden, Honda, ICON Aircraft, Inovo Design, Italdesign Giugiaro, Iveco, Jialing Motor, Jeep, Johnson Controls, Lamborghini, Lexus, Magna Steyr, Maserati, Maybach, Mazda, Mercedes, Miele, Mitsubishi Electric, Opel, PATAC, Porsche, PSA, Rolls-Royce, Saab, Sagem, Samsung, Scania, Siemens VDO, Schüco, Serco, Skoda, Sony Ericsson, Steelcase, Suzuki, TERREX, Tesco, Thyssen Krupp, Toppan Printing, Toyota, UCHIDA YOKO, Vauxhall, Volkswagen and Volvo.
The supplier of 3D real-time visualisation solutions looks back on a remarkable development with average annual growth rates of 50 per cent over the past few years. RTT currently employs about 350 people at 14 locations. The company is based in Munich. Further offices are located in Los Angeles, Detroit, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Brussels, Milan, Valencia, Melbourne, Singapore, Stuttgart and Hamburg.
RTT Website
SRG Global Inc., a Guardian Company, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of chrome plated plastic parts for the automotive industry. The company represents a global megabrand unrivaled in product breadth and global reach with a manufacturing presence in major world markets including North America, Europe and Asia. The company is headquartered near Detroit in Warren, Michigan.
Providing high value coatings on plastics, its product range includes structural components; functional elements; and decorative trim. Specific products include nameplates and accessories; fascia systems and body side molding; and some interior systems.
Found on the vehicles of virtually every OEM in the world, its products tend to transcend mere decorative items. Engineered for greater surface durability, structural integrity and enhanced functionality, SRG continues to lead the industry in innovative chrome finishes and coatings that are lighter, stronger and more flexible. Often, SRG products directly contribute to the brand definition for its customers.
Not content to maintain the status quo, SRG Global is driven to accelerate development and delivery of breakthrough coating technologies, creating technologies that its customers don’t yet know that they want. That drive will be facilitated at its new Advanced Development Center, which will serve SRG facilities globally.
Formed in 2009, SRG Global comprises the trim operations of Guardian Automotive and Siegel-Robert Automotive, after Guardian’s acquisition of Siegel-Robert Automotive in 2009. Guardian Automotive’s European trim operation, formerly known as Lab Radio, is part of SRG Global. The young company offers customers more than 100 years of combined experience in the automotive business.
SRG Global currently has facilities in North America, China, Western Europe and Central Europe. The company continues to grow, and in 2010 will celebrate the grand opening of a manufacturing facility in Poland and its new Advanced Development Center near Detroit. In 2011, SRG Global plans to open a plant in Mexico.
SRG Global Website
Stile Bertone was founded by Nuccio Bertone in1972 as independent Design Company operating in all sectors of Transportation, Nautical, and Aeronautical Industry, Architecture and Industrial Design. Within these sectors Stile Bertone is working in the areas of Styling, Engineering, Model Making and Prototyping as well as Construction of Concept Vehicles and fully performing One-Off Cars.
Stile Bertone is a full service supplier for turn key projects and provides services from the design idea through all phases of design development and engineering up to the realisation of the fully functional and performing product. Our success is driven by the experience of our specialists, the cutting-edge technology in our workshops and the excellent cooperation with our customers during the execution of the projects.
Stile Bertone’s headquarter in Caprie (Italy), a few kilometers from Turin into the Susa Valley has been progressively updated und extended over the time. The virtual reality room is the most recent achievement in Stile Bertone’s continuous commitment to applying advanced technologies.
Stile Bertone is a globally renowned “Design Boutique of Excellence”, committed to delivering Style, Elegance and Beauty into your hands and operating a full service supplier in design development for the worldwide industry.
Stile Bertone website
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EDAG is the world´s largest independent partner to the international transportation industry with over 5,900 specialists on 5 continents. In China EDAG has offices in Shanghai and Beijing.
For over 40 years EDAG has been delivering clear design, high-quality engineering services and technical innovation - Made in Germany.
EDAG can provide support for every step from the first product definition all the way to building production facilities.
As EDAG has this holistic understanding of the complete development process, optimisation for feasibility and production is an integral part of EDAG´s activities, especially in the design phase.
EDAG Website
The WENZEL Design Package offers a complete solution for designers and clay modelers to shorten the time from the first clay scribing to digitizing of the final clay model.
The hardware consists of easily accessible coordinate measuring machines that can hold scribing needles, probes, milling heads and laser scanners and therefore offers maximum flexibility for the design process. The user friendly all-in-one software DesCAD3D offers point taking, measuring, digitizing, mirroring, scaling and milling program generation in one clear user interface, thus minimizing the need for digitizing and milling specialists.
All hardware and software components are developed by WENZEL into a harmonious package that has made WENZEL to the leading supplier in European design studios.
WENZEL Group GmbH & Co. KG is one of the leading manufactures of metrology solutions, employing about 600 people in 16 subsidiaries worldwide. Products include solutions in the fields of coordinate measuring machines, gear metrology, computed tomography, design, die making and reverse engineering.
Wenzel website