From the Car Design Review 4 yearbook: the seating expert looks to the future. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin
“We want to be better and, as the car industry transforms to autonomous solutions, we have to change also. We are still the biggest seating supplier in the world. We make something like 25 million car seats and components every year. Just in China we have 60 plants. We are assembling a team with the best engineers and designers employing many of the guys I used to work with. I had to ‘put the band back together’.
“Adient is the new name for our company, derived from a Latin root word meaning ‘to move positively toward a stimulus’. We were a multi-business company before, as Johnson Controls International (JCI), but as of 31 October 2016 Adient was born as an independent, publicly-traded company. Now JCI is completely out of the automotive interior business, Yanfeng focuses on interior components and Adient focuses on seating.
“I spent 17 years with Johnson Controls and the last three with Yanfeng’s interior business [in which Adient still holds a 30 percent stake], so I’ve been in the seating business for a long time…
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