Forvia is massively scaling up its workforce in Europe. The group born from the merger of Faurecia and the German Hella believes it has overcapacity on the Old Continent, where the market is sluggish.

China is its source of profits. Patrick Koller indicated in December that his group would halve its research & development and production costs by 2028 thanks in particular to generative artificial intelligence (AI) He created astonishment by mentioning the creation of five “dark plants”, factories without operators, open by 2025.