Signed a business agreement with’Bitgreen Industrial Complex’
Providing solutions for AI-based autonomous vehicle business, opening of Gwangju business site
CEO Kim Jin-hyung “Providing a specialized partner role to equip local companies with global competitiveness”
Mayor Lee Yong-seop “We will create a production cluster for future cars such as Bitgreen Industrial Complex and eco-friendly cars”
Signed a business agreement with’Bitgreen Industrial Complex’
Providing solutions for AI-based autonomous vehicle business, opening of Gwangju business site
CEO Kim Jin-hyung “Providing a specialized partner role to equip local companies with global competitiveness”
Mayor Lee Yong-seop “We will create a production cluster for future cars such as Bitgreen Industrial Complex and eco-friendly cars”
Gwangju Metropolitan City and Gwangju Free Economic Zone Authority decided to actively foster the AI-based future automobile industry in Gwangju Bitgreen Industrial Complex in cooperation with AVL Korea, a global R&D company specializing in automotive engineering services and powertrain.
In the afternoon of the 25th, Gwangju City and the Free Economic Zone Authority, Mayor Yong-seop Yong-seop, Gwangju Free Economic Zone Commissioner Kim Jin-cheol, and CEO Kim Jin-hyung, Korea AVL Co., Ltd., attended the business room at City Hall on the afternoon of the 25th. A business agreement has been signed.
AVL was established in Austria in 1948 and operates 45 branches in 26 countries around the world, including Germany, Japan, Korea, France, USA, India, UK, China, Sweden, Turkey and Brazil. As a technology leader, it provides leading technology, solutions and services suitable for future mobility needs to automakers and parts companies around the world. In Korea, 130 employees are employed in business sites such as Seoul, Incheon, Ansan, and Changwon.
Through a business agreement, AVL plans to focus on fostering the future automobile industry of the Bit Green Industrial Complex through the role of future automobile technology and technology partners.
The main contents of the agreement are ▲Gwangju Global Motors, the first model of Gwangju-type job, provides the role of a technology partner necessary for the production of eco-friendly vehicles and autonomous vehicles ▲Provides technical advice and related business solutions to foster the AI-based autonomous vehicle industry, excellent research personnel Developing educational programs and opening training centers ▲Eco-friendly vehicle parts certification center, supporting construction of eco-friendly parts cluster infrastructure ▲Establishment of joint research process with GIST to enhance competitiveness of artificial intelligence convergence technology, joint participation in national R&D projects and discovery of corporate research projects ▲Opening of AVL office in Gwangju , Expanding the employment of research personnel in the region through establishment and operation.
Kim Jin-hyung, CEO of AVL Korea, said, “Providing a specialized partner role for Gwangju Global Motors Co., Ltd. and parts manufacturers to have high global competitiveness, We will present a practical and concrete industry-academia-research model.”
To this end, “We will open a regional business site in Gwangju, and we will hire excellent human resources in the region when recruiting AVL talents along with training support for excellent human resources in the region.” We will improve the status of AVL in the industry.”
Gwangju Free Economic Zone Commissioner Kim Jin-cheol said, “In cooperation with AVL, a leader in future car production technology, we will provide technical advice and related business solutions to foster the AI-based autonomous vehicle industry, as well as develop excellent research personnel training programs and open training centers.” “In the future, we will actively promote business agreements and investment attraction with competitive global companies that have been verified in the market.”
Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “As major industrial complexes such as automobiles, artificial intelligence, and smart energy have been designated as free economic zones, electricity has been prepared for epoch-making development.” Through this, we will do our best so that the Bitgreen Industrial Complex can firmly establish itself as a production cluster for future vehicles such as eco-friendly vehicles and autonomous vehicles.”
/ Reporter Jeong Eun-chan