Vibracoustic

We are a Leading Global Automotive Noise, Vibration and Harshness Expert

We are a leading global automotive Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) expert, providing innovative solutions for all current and future mobility challenges of our automotive customers. We specialize in creating excellent customized NVH solutions for drive train and chassis applications, leveraging our deep expertise, comprehensive portfolio of NVH technology, and understanding of the entire vehicle system across all automotive segments.

Our NVH solutions play a crucial role in ensuring a smooth, safe, and quiet ride by reducing noise and vibrations originating from the engine, motor, drive train, and road surfaces that are transmitted into the chassis. As a result, passengers can enjoy a comfortable ride experience.

In addition, we offer one of the broadest vibration control portfolios for the automotive aftermarket with our two brands Vibracoustic Aftermarket and blacktech.

Comfort is crucial to the overall driving experience today and it will be even more important in the future as drivers increasingly request and value an overall comfortable ride. New drive concepts in an electrified, autonomous world impact the comfort of passengers and require new NVH solutions to ensure this smooth, safe and quiet ride. Completely different sources of noise and vibration will occur and impact all passengers. 

We are an automotive supplier with an exclusive focus on automotive NVH challenges. To serve the needs of our customers best, adding comfort is our focus. Our know-how and proven processes make us a reliable solution provider for adding comfort to mobility – today and in the future. Vibracoustic. driving comfort.

We provide customized solutions for NVH challenges

We create excellent customized NVH solutions for drive train and chassis applications built upon our deep expertise, a broad product range and an understanding of the entire vehicle system in all automotive segments. Our solutions provide comfort without compromising on handling and they support safety, efficiency and durability. Our know-how and proven processes make us a reliable partner.

To enable our customers to bring new vehicles to market as fast and cost-efficiently as possible, we partner with them along the entire product life cycle: From material science to development, to prototyping, to vehicle testing, to production, to logistics.

We partner with our customers along the entire product lifecycle

We serve our customers with a global presence and local expertise

We partner with our automotive customers around the world and along the entire product lifecycle to provide excellent, customized solutions. To be global, we go local. We have a global engineering network with local engineering services and a global production set-up with sites close to our customers. Across 17 countries, around 12,000 experts at 40 locations are driving comfort. They can rely on proven Vibracoustic quality and processes.

We are ready to support established and emerging automotive manufacturers. We are a trusted partner for developing current and future NVH solutions for our customers: No matter which vehicle type, size, level of complexity, or which type of drive train. Vibracoustic provides comfort at scale. We collaborate with our customers in the automotive industry to solve NVH challenges, today and in the future. 

We support our customers on their way to future mobility

Our Vision

We lead the global NVH industry providing innovative solutions for all current and future mobility challenges of our automotive customers.

Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) has been at the heart of our business for decades. Adding comfort to mobility concepts of our automotive customers is our mission.

Our proven expertise and deep understanding of the entire vehicle system in all automotive segments perfectly respond to the increasing importance of comfort in the automotive industry. With around 12,000 NVH experts around the globe we are striving towards our vision every day.

Our Mission

We add comfort to mobility.

Our Strategy “Driving Growth and Efficiency”

We will continue to strengthen our position as leading global automotive NVH expert. We aim to achieve this goal by driving profitable growth and efficiency with our Strategic Priorities.

Our Strategic Priorities “Best Reach”, “Best Cost” and “Best Quality” are the cornerstones of our strategy. The Strategic Priorities are embodied by initiatives aimed at achieving profitable growth, cost leadership and process excellence. The foundation of our strategy are our values, comprising customer focus, entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, global thinking/local execution, innovation and integrity. We are confident to be well positioned to lead the NVH industry and support our customers to deliver a smooth, safe and quiet ride in an electrified, autonomous world today and in the future.

We are Committed to our Strategic Priorities

Best Reach

We drive innovation and growth to serve our customers globally, generating profitable growth.

Best Cost

We drive a most competitive cost structure along the entire value chain to reach cost leadership.

Best Quality

We drive best in class processes with focus on customer service, sustainability and diversity, enabling process excellence.

Our Management Board

Frank Mueller | CEO

Board Member since June 1, 2015

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Bachelor of Business Administration at ESB Business School, Reutlingen (Germany) and Middlesex University, London (United Kingdom)

Former Positions (selection)

  • Vice President and General Manager Occupant Safety Systems TRW Inc.
  • CEO of Behr America Inc.
  • CFO of Behr America Inc.
  • Consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH

Marina Cacciutti  |  CFO

Board Member since January 1, 2024

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Master of Corporate Finance from Walsh College of Accountancy and Business Administration, Michigan (USA)

Former Positions (selection)

  • CFO Region Americas, Vibracoustic USA, Inc.
  • Vice President Finance and Taxes, Vibracoustic SE
  • Finance Director North America, Brose Group
  • Supply Chain Finance Director, Inteva Products, LLC

Axel Wersel | COO

Board Member since January 1, 2021

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Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. and Dipl.-Automotive Engineer from Fachhochschule Wedel (Germany) and Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg (Germany)

Former Positions (selection)

  • Executive Vice President Business Unit RIDE Solutions, Vibracoustic AG
  • Business Area Manager Chassis, Vibracoustic GmbH & Co KG
  • Head of Process Engineering,Phoenix AG
  • Project Manager, Phoenix AG

Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. and Dipl.-Automotive Engineer from Fachhochschule Wedel (Germany) and Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg (Germany)

Former Positions (selection)

  • Executive Vice President Business Unit RIDE Solutions, Vibracoustic AG
  • Business Area Manager Chassis, Vibracoustic GmbH & Co KG
  • Head of Process Engineering,Phoenix AG
  • Project Manager, Phoenix AG

Dr. Joerg Boecking | CTO

Board Member since January 1, 2016

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PhD in mechanical engineering at the Technical University Darmstadt (Germany)

Master of Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and RWTH Aachen (Germany)

Former Positions (selection)

  • CTO of Freudenberg & Co. KG
  • General Manager at Freudenberg New Technologies
  • Head of Business Area Motor Mounts at Vibracoustic GmbH
  • Director System Development and Technologies at Vibracoustic GmbH

Our Values

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Global Thinking / Local Execution

We believe in the strength of combining both local knowledge and global standards.

Entrepreneurship

We ensure sustainable and profitable growth of our company by always focusing on business success, encouraging empowerment and proactive decision making.

Environmental Responsibility

We are committed to protect the environment and the health and safety of all stakeholders by continuing to operate responsibly and efficiently worldwide.

Customer Focus

We are committed to supply best value to our customers, by providing state-of-the-art, high quality products and services at optimum cost.

Innovation

We are committed to be best-in-class by continuously improving our products, processes and business.

Integrity

We are committed to a consistent framework of values which determine our behavior towards all our stakeholders.

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