Gentex Corporation, the US-based supplier of automatic-dimming mirrors to the worldwide automotive industry, has opened a satellite office in Yokohama, Japan, the company announced 12 January 2005. Ge…
Gentex Corporation, the US-based supplier of automatic-dimming mirrors to the worldwide automotive industry, has opened a satellite office in Yokohama, Japan, the company announced 12 January 2005. Gentex says the new office will help it provide expanded sales and engineering support to its Asian customers in Tokyo and the entire Kanto region. Gentex now operates two offices in Japan, the first of which opened in 1998 in Nagoya. With this new Yokohama office, combined with additional resources at the Nagoya office, Gentex says it has increased its ability to support Japanese automakers and Tier One mirror suppliers globally. “More than half of our total annual mirror-unit shipments are to automotive manufacturers headquartered outside the US,” said Gentex Executive Vice President Garth Deur. “Our Asian business is growing rapidly, and our expanded support of customers in that region directly reflects the increased application of auto-dimming mirrors on Japanese-branded vehicles that are built and sold globally.”