Our company is a worldwide leader in automotive safety, a pioneer in both seat belts and airbags, and a technology leader with the widest product offering for automotive safety. All the leading automobile manufacturers in the world are our customers. We service them from more than 60 subsidiaries and joint ventures in 29 countries. We test their cars and products at 19 crash test tracks in nine countries, and we have more than 23,000 people globally to support them.

We are the inventors of the world's first side-impact airbag, the Inflatable Curtain (IC) for head protection in side impacts and the Anti-Whiplash Seat (AWS), just to mention our latest contributions to automotive safety. Now we continue to drive automotive safety by developing Adaptive airbags, Roll-over protection systems and Safety radar systems.

With half a million people killed globally in motor traffic every year and ten times as many severely injured, there is a compelling need for improved automotive safety. That is why our motto is: Your safety - our concern.