{"id":120542,"date":"2017-11-03T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=120542"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:39:50","slug":"autoliv-breaks-ground-on-major-detroit-area-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2017\/11\/autoliv-breaks-ground-on-major-detroit-area-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Autoliv Breaks Ground on Major Detroit-Area Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Autoliv is expanding its presence in metro Detroit as its businesses continue to grow, including its autonomous vehicle technology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Autoliv, the company that stepped in following the\u00a0Takata bankruptcy\u00a0to supply safety equipment, including airbags and seatbelts,\u00a0to carmakers\u00a0around the world, is preparing for a major expansion in\u00a0North America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The company, which is based in Stockholm, Sweden, has broken ground for\u00a0the company\u2019s\u00a0North American Electronics Technical Center in Southfield, Michigan, just\u00a0outside of\u00a0Detroit that will ultimately house more than 900 employees when it\u00a0completed in\u00a02019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Global Auto News!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new 180,000 square\u00a0foot Electronics\u00a0Technical Center\u00a0will\u00a0be\u00a0complete\u00a0in the first half of 2019 and is expected to enable\u00a0Autoliv’s\u00a0growth in\u00a0several key safety electronics technologies by providing needed office\u00a0space and\u00a0advanced laboratories for engineering, sales and other management\u00a0functions for\u00a0electronics organization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It will be a focal point for developing Automotive Safety\u00a0Electronics systems\u00a0and includes a full development garage. The current 600 Autoliv\u00a0Electronics employees, housed in the multiple nearby Southfield buildings today, will\u00a0be\u00a0re-located to this new facility. Autoliv expects to offer 250 new jobs at\u00a0this site, during the next five years, mainly in electronics engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(Volvo\u00a0autonomous driving software venture with Autoliv comes to life. To check it out, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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\u201cWe have grown\u00a0significantly since\u00a0opening our Southfield office in 2002, and it has long been our hope\u00a0to expand\u00a0in this area,” noted Canice Boran, vice president, North\u00a0American Electronics\u00a0Engineering.<\/p>\n

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Jan Carlson, chairman, CEO of Autoliv with Volvo CEO H\u00e5kan Samuelsson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAutoliv\u2019s mission is to be the leading supplier of safety systems\u00a0for the\u00a0future car. We are excited by the opportunity our new\u00a0high-tech\u00a0facility will\u00a0provide our people to collaboratively innovate and develop our\u00a0Electronics systems, and ultimately contribute to saving more lives,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the wake of Takata’s bankruptcy and continuing legal\u00a0troubles, Autoliv\u00a0has become one of the industry’s preferred suppliers of\u00a0automotive safety\u00a0equipment, including airbags.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(For more about the Volvo-Autoliv partnership,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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However, the company’s sole focus isn’t the aforementioned safety equipment. Autoliv is one of the many company’s actively pursuing autonomous vehicle technologies. It has partnerships with Nvidia and Volvo Cars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Volvo Cars and\u00a0Autoliv last year launched a venture called\u00a0Zenuity\u00a0to develop autonomous vehicle software. This summer, thy expanded that alliance to include Nvidia, a firm known for its computer graphics technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(To see more about Autoliv helping Takata with its airbag problem, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Together, the three partners hope to have the first fully autonomous Volvo on sale by 2021, and they could offer their software to other automakers, as well. Volvo has also been providing vehicles for testing by ride-sharing firm Uber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Safety equipment maker Autoliv, best known for helping Takata with its airbag crisis, broke ground on a major expansion in metro Detroit. For details, go to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":120544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120542"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=120542"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=120542"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=120542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}