# AUTOLIV INC

Summary updated: 2026-10-02T15:56:27.69641Z
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## Overview

Autoliv Inc. develops and manufactures automotive safety systems, operating in the automotive-safety sector. Its principal products are airbags, steering wheels, inflators and seatbelts, alongside products such as pedestrian-protection systems and battery cut-off switches. The company’s stated mission is “Save More Lives.” [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P89239958)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P71026435)[3](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P109966553)[4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P75812964)

Autoliv serves customers globally, with operations across the Americas, Europe, China and other parts of Asia. At year-end 2025, it had 62 production facilities in 23 countries and approximately 64,300 personnel worldwide, including temporary personnel. FY2025 net sales were $10.815 billion. [5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P60443679)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P43243389)
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## Products & services

Autoliv’s products include airbags, seatbelts and steering wheels, alongside hood lifters and pyrotechnical safety switches. Its airbag portfolio includes driver, passenger, side, head/curtain, knee, front-center and pedestrian airbags, as well as bag-in-belt systems; the company also lists these products for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle applications. [7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T7242494)

Product technologies include side-curtain airbags designed to cushion occupants’ heads in side impacts, with Autoliv stating deployment positioning in under 30 milliseconds, and its Bernoulli passenger airbag, which uses fluid dynamics to inflate a larger bag with a smaller, single-stage inflator and adapts to occupant and seat positions. Inflators are offered in pyrotechnic, hybrid and stored-gas types, with single- or dual-stage configurations. Seatbelt systems include webbing, retractors, pretensioners and load limiters; the company states an operating-temperature range of −40°C to 105°C. Steering wheels can integrate the driver airbag and features such as controls, heating and vibration. [8](https://www.autoliv.com/safety-solutions/airbags/side-curtain-airbag) [9](https://www.autoliv.com/safety-solutions/airbags/bernoulli-airbag) [10](https://www.autoliv.com/safety-solutions/inflators-initiators) [11](https://www.autoliv.com/seatbelt) [12](https://www.autoliv.com/safety-solutions/steering-wheels)

Autoliv also offers pedestrian-protection and commercial-vehicle safety products, including airbags, seatbelts, steering wheels and pyro fuses. Its testing services cover test-method development, pre-test preparation, post-test analysis, computer simulations and crash testing, with safety-improvement recommendations. [13](https://www.autoliv.com/safety-solutions/pedestrian-protection) [14](https://www.autoliv.com/safety-solutions/commercial-vehicle-solutions) [15](https://www.autoliv.com/safety-solutions/test-services)

For FY2025, net sales were $10.815 billion: airbags, steering wheels and other products accounted for $7.302 billion (about 67.5%), while seatbelt products and other sales were $3.513 billion (about 32.5%). These percentages are calculated from the reported category figures. Organic sales growth was 3.4% for airbags, steering wheels and other products and 3.5% for seatbelt products and other sales. [16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T7715100) [17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P81139988)
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## Geographic presence

Autoliv’s latest available full-year geographic information is for 2025; its latest interim report located is Q2 2026. The company reported operations in 25 countries, 13 technical centers and approximately 64,000 employees, with the cited materials giving a global workforce total rather than a regional employee breakdown. [18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=D278199)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=D341276)[20](https://www.autoliv.com/company/global-presence)

In 2025, net sales totaled $10.815 billion: $3.480 billion in the Americas (32.2%), $3.116 billion in Europe (28.8%), $2.124 billion in Asia excluding China (19.6%), and $2.095 billion in China (19.4%). Percentages are calculated from the reported regional sales and total. [21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P34472812)

Manufacturing facilities span the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Reported locations include Brazil, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, the U.S. and Vietnam. Technical and testing locations include sites in China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden and the U.S. [22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T7964978)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T11262168)[24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T2101650) Autoliv lists its head office in Stockholm, Sweden. [25](https://www.autoliv.com/contact-us)
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## Business segments

Autoliv reports one operating and reportable segment, comprising products and components for automotive airbag, steering-wheel and seatbelt systems. The company does not report these product categories or geographic areas as separate reportable segments. [26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141104447) [27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P106526767)

For 2025, net sales were $10.815 billion. Disaggregated by product, airbags, steering wheels and related products generated $7.302 billion (about 67.5% of sales), while seatbelt products generated $3.513 billion (about 32.5%). [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T12997725) These product categories are sales disclosures, not separate reportable segments. [29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P120398183)

By sales geography, 2025 net sales were $3.480 billion in the Americas (about 32.2%), $3.116 billion in Europe (28.8%), $2.124 billion in Asia excluding China (19.6%), and $2.095 billion in China (19.4%). The geographic attribution is based on the location of the entity selling the final product; these figures are geographic sales disaggregations, not reportable-segment results. [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T12997725) [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T12629831) [21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P34472812)
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## Company history

Founded in Vårgårda, Sweden, in 1953 by brothers Lennart and Stig Lindblad, Autoliv began as Lindblads Autoservice AB. In 1956, Lennart Lindblad developed the company’s first two-point static seatbelt. [31](https://www.autoliv.com/autoliv-70) [32](https://www.autoliv.com/investors/annual-and-sustainability-report-2023)

Autoliv expanded into airbag safety in the 1990s: its first side-impact airbags, developed with Volvo, began shipping in the Volvo 850 in 1994, followed by the Inflatable Curtain in 1998. In 1997, Autoliv AB merged with Morton International’s Automotive Safety Products division, forming Autoliv Inc. [33](https://www.autoliv.com/press/autoliv-saving-more-livesdelivers-half-billion-airbags-side-protection-1264017) [34](https://www.autoliv.com/company/our-history)

The company continued to expand through acquisitions around 2000, including Japan’s Izumi steering-wheel business and seatbelt operations in North America and Asia. In 2010, it agreed to acquire substantially all of Delphi’s occupant-protection operations in Korea and China. [34](https://www.autoliv.com/company/our-history) [35](https://www.autoliv.com/press/autoliv-acquire-delphi-passive-safety-operations-asia-1152991)

In 2018, Autoliv spun off its Electronics business into Veoneer, distributing Veoneer shares to Autoliv shareholders; Veoneer began regular-way trading in July. [36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P183203944) [37](https://www.autoliv.com/press/autoliv-completes-spin-1594808)
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