Autoliv Romania invests $5m to double output

Swedish automotive safety systems producer Autoliv will double its production capacity in Brasov following an investment of nearly $5 million. This investment will see the factory expand by 9,500 sqm, with its production hall currently standing at 2,500 sqm. The company employs 232 people. The expansion is part of the company’s strategy to transfer its production capacities to countries where costs are lower. To these ends it transferred its safety belt production from Germany to Romania and Poland, its Swedish operations to Estonia, and moved those activities previously taking place in the UK to Poland and Spain. The seat belt production operations in France will be relocated to Turkey and Tunisia and those in the US will move to Mexico. Autoliv entered the Romanian market in 1997 and started out as a supplier of equipment to clients such as Dacia and Daewoo. ZF