Ideal seating begins in the mind – and on the drawing boards and computers – of our developers. The main development team in Wolfsburg (Germany), together with their colleagues at Sitech operations in Polkowice (Poland) and Shanghai (China) either transform our own ideas for better car seats into proprietary designs, or develop finished car seats according to a customer’s design model.

From the preliminary development, design and seat cover development phases to prototype construction, comprehensive testing and finally to production supervision, the Technical Development team directs the entire process. Nearby to production operations in Wolfsburg, Polkowice and Shanghai the Technical Development ensures that production requirements are introduced into the development of new products at an early stage. Product management performed by Technical Development constantly ensures that the development teams cover all process areas and remain precisely within specified time and cost constraints.

In the future, Technical Development will expand its competence including seat covers, headrests, seat structures, metal frames and seat adjustment systems. It will also continue to advance our global orientation with an enlarged scope of innovative products fit to market and customer needs – thereby creating a solid basis for our worldwide operations.