| Company Profile | : | In 1958, the Air-conditioning Business Division of Diesel Kiki Co., Ltd. was first in Japan to start developing, manufacturing and selling car air-conditioning equipment. Since then, the company has continued to innovate, for example, introducing Japan's first air-conditioning system using HFC-134a refrigerant. To this day, our focus on the automobile market makes us one of the industry's leading automotive equipment companies.
The Air-conditioning Business Division became an independent company, Zexel Valeo Climate Control Corporation, in 2000. This became a subsidiary fully owned by Valeo of France and was renamed Valeo Thermal Systems Japan Corporation (VTSJ) in 2005.
Valeo, headquartered in Paris, France, is the No. 2 automotive supplier in Europe, and pursues an ambition to be one of the top five automotive suppliers in the world by 2010. |
