Sweden: Autoliv Closes Four Plants- Over 800 Job Cuts

The world’s biggest airbag and seat belt manufacturer, Swedish company Autoliv, has decided to shut down four of its foreign factories in France, Germany, Mexico and Tunisia. As a result, 820 company employees will lose their jobs.

The company was forced to adopt this measure as part of a cost-cutting plan developed to deal with the seriously decreased orders that resulted from the general decrease of the automotive market.

The seat belt assembling plant in Tunisia … (read more)