Autoliv is the world's largest maker of passive automotive-safety gear — airbags, seatbelts and steering wheels. It turns steel, textiles and propellant chemistry into the crash-protection systems bolted into roughly one in three new cars, selling to nearly every major automaker. Its stock trades on the NYSE while it is run from Stockholm.
From steel and yarn to a life saved
Autoliv sits in the middle of the car's safety chain. It buys steel, textiles and propellant chemistry, weaves and stamps them into airbags, seatbelts and steering wheels, and ships those systems just-in-time to automakers — who bolt them into the cars that protect drivers and passengers.