ZF Group, one of the top five suppliers to the automotive industry in the world, announced the construction of a new manufacturing plant, a research and development center for new technologies and an administrative center.

In Mexico it has 16 manufacturing plants and employs 23 thousand people, being the country where it has the most employees in the world, after Germany.

In total, the company will create around 800 new jobs. According to the directors, the investment amount was several tens of millions of dollars.

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Alberto de Icaza, director of government relations in Mexico at ZF Group, reported that the project is aimed at autonomous driving.

The first stage is an administrative center in the Monterrey metropolitan area that will begin operating in a month.

The following is the opening of the production plant in late 2022 or early 2023, which will be located in the Finsa Industrial Park, in the municipality of Guadalupe, Nuevo León.

It will produce 4.8 generation cameras with a single 100-degree viewing lens, located behind the rear-view mirror of vehicles.

The cameras have a special function to detect if a pedestrian or cyclist is crossing and activate automatic braking or steering to avoid it.

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The information is processed through computers that we produce and the response signal is sent to the braking systems and the engine, explained the manager. The third stage is the almost simultaneous construction of the technology development center. 

This will focus mainly on the development of new technologies for autonomous driving, a state-of-the-art system for the automotive industry.

The technology center will support the other divisions that we have in Mexico in the same area and development and in shock absorbers, airbags, braking systems, steering, belts, safety and steering wheels.

The selection of Nuevo León to settle as a strategic location is due to the enormous production of high-level students in its university centers and leading engineering schools in Latin America.

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