We believe that we are well positioned to meet the needs of our customers in the automotive marketplace since we have a global presence, the broadest product capabilities among the automotive supply base and a strong emphasis on innovation and technology.
We have one of the industry's strongest balance sheets. This allows us to invest in new technologies, program management, and state of the art manufacturing facilities in order to continue to support our customers.
Our Locations
We have a global presence in order to support our customers on a worldwide basis, consisting of 238 production and 60 engineering and R&D centres in 23 countries on 5 continents as of March 2008. This positions us to capitalize on geographic shifts in global production.
Our Capabilities
We possess the most diverse product capabilities among the automotive supply base. We have the capabilities to help our customers from concept to completion, from the design and engineering of a complete vehicle and its systems through to its final assembly. In North America, Europe and the Rest of the World our product capabilities include many of the key areas of an entire vehicle, including:
With our broad product range and complete vehicle competence, we believe that we are in a position to meet the future needs of our customers for larger and more complex modules that cross our traditional product areas.
For further information on these product areas please refer to the Product Expertise section of our Web site.
Our Innovations
We believe that to be successful in the automotive industry, to add value for our customers and to generate organic sales growth, we need to be on the leading edge of innovation and technology to design, engineer and manufacture new systems for our customers. We possess numerous proprietary technologies, which encompass not only our products, but many of our key processes. We have a disciplined approach to investment in products and technology with an emphasis on strong returns for those investments. We have a long history of product and process innovation. Across our product capabilities we have been the first to market with various advanced technologies. To name a few:
For further information on other technologies please refer to the Innovations and R&D, Design and Testing sections of our Web site under Products & Technology.