avl global network GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONY IN JAPAN NEW FACILITY IN INDIA INAUGURATED F O C U S 1 5 NEW TECH CENTER IN STUTTGART putting a new test and engineering in early 2016. The new test and engineering an area of 20,000 sq. m, will be available to the entire automotive industry and set new standards for innovative technologies, plant availability and confidentiality. > AVL List GmbH will be center into operation in Bietigheim Bissingen near Stuttgart center, which is to cover CEO Helmut List and Executive Vice President Uwe Dieter Grebe (r.) at the opening ceremony. In Japan the construction of a new Tech Center in Shinkawasaki, close to the AVL Japan Headquarter in Kawasaki, started recently. Members of the AVL Top-Management visited the site to celebrate the construction kick-off with AVL Japan president Naoki Okada in a traditional “Jichin-sai” ground-breaking ceremony. The project is planed tol be completed by the end of October 2016. SECOND TEST- AND ENGINEERING CENTER IN CHINA OPENS In early June the second AVL Tech Center in Tianjin was opened. The AVL Tianjin Technical Center will reinforce AVL’s ability to respond to the CEO Helmut List: “With the AVL Tech Center in Stuttgart, we have set ourselves the aim of erecting a test and engineering center that will meet the most advanced equipment and efficiency standards. Our decision takes account of the fact that Stuttgart is a key center of the automotive industry. The Tech Center will incorporate AVL expertise from Graz.“ < needs of the Chinese market and further expand its local capabilities. In its final stage of expansion, the technical center, situated in the north of China, will accommodate as many as 25 engine, transmission, powertrain and hybrid testbeds. Already, on completion of the first construction stage, involving an investment volume amounting to EUR 20 million, a vehicle chassis dyno, a powertrain testbed and other test systems are scheduled to go into operation. The 12,000 square meter AVL site is located in Tianjin’s Technological Economic Development Area (TEDA). < In March 2015, CEO Helmut List and Shashi Singh, Managing Director AVL India, inaugurated the new expanded facility at AVL India Technical Center in Gurgaon. AVL has added a new floor at the existing facility, which will house AVL India Software in addition to the existing operations of AVL India Technical Center. > In the presence of members of the Mercedes-AMG Management and local politicians, the first ceremonial shovels were driven into the earth for the AVL Tech Center Stuttgart.
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