The Autoliv steering plant in El Nadhour, Tunisia, caught fire on December 26 due to some poor welding work done during the Christmas vacation. Fortunately, there were no human injuries, but the factory management was forced to quickly move production to other facilities before automakers go back to work.
Though the manufacturing machines were destroyed by the fire, Autoliv got lucky as all critical tools were salvaged and saved with the help of the employees. Most of these tools … (read more)