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Lear Seating Corp. opens the doors of its new advanced technology and test center in Southfield, MI. In addition to state-of-the-art seat-system durability and noise-testing equipment, the $9 million facility features what the company calls the world's first HYGE Sled crash simulator to use all-digital, high-resolution color on-board imaging at 1,000 frames per second.