Valeo North America, Inc.

Valeo North America, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of Valeo SE (Euronext Paris: FR), the French automotive supplier founded in 1923 and headquartered at 100 rue de Courcelles, Paris. Valeo North America's headquarters is at 150 Stephenson Highway, Troy, Michigan; Nevada and Mississippi corporate filings list the same Troy address. State records show the unit incorporated in the U.S. in the early 1990s (Craft.co lists a 1993 founding). It is a wholly owned subsidiary, not a separately listed entity. Group scale: €21.5bn total sales and ~106,100 employees at end-2024, across 155 plants and 64 R&D centers; North and South America together accounted for roughly 21% of OEM sales with about 18,500 employees (Valeo investor presentation, May 2025; GlobalData).

Operations. Valeo designs, manufactures, and sells automotive components and integrated systems, organized since 2024 into three divisions: Valeo Power (powertrain and thermal systems — electrification, transmissions, engine and battery thermal management; ~50% of sales), Valeo Brain (ADAS, sensors, domain controllers, software-defined-vehicle electronics; ~24%), and Valeo Light (exterior/interior lighting and wiper systems; ~26%), plus a Valeo Service aftermarket parts arm. OEM sales are 84% of revenue. North American sites produce electrification, driver-assistance, and lighting systems; the company has expanding operations in Nevada, Indiana, Michigan, and a technical center in Querétaro, Mexico.

Litigation posture. An operating company, not an NPE. In the tracked data Valeo North America appears once — as a defendant, with zero plaintiff-side filings. That single suit was brought by a patent-assertion entity, a classic defensive posture for a large automotive supplier.

Notable case. Innovative Display Technologies LLC v. General Motors LLC et al. (D. Del. 1:14-cv-00850, filed 2014-06-30) named Valeo North America alongside GM. IDT is an Acacia Research Corporation subsidiary that asserted acquired LCD/light-emitting-panel patents (originally from Solid State Opto, later Rambus) against automakers, phone makers, and display manufacturers. The case was resolved in October 2015 by a settlement and license agreement with GM and Valeo (Acacia 8-K, Oct 13, 2015). The case sat in the District of Delaware, not the Eastern District of Texas, though IDT filed parallel auto-industry suits in EDTX.