Takata (company)
| タ カ タ 株式会社 Takata KK
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| legal form | Kabushiki gaisha |
| founding | 1933 |
| resolution | 2018 |
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 Tokyo , Japan
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| management | Shigehisa Takada (Chairman and CEO), |
| Number of employees | 48,775 |
| sales | 642.810 billion JPY |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| As of March 31, 2015 | |
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Takata KK ( Japanese タ カ タ 株式会社 , Takata Kabushiki kaisha , English Takata Corporation ) was an international company that manufactured occupant protection systems for vehicles. After purchasing Petri AG ( Aschaffenburg ) in 2000, the company initially operated in Europe as Takata-Petri, and from 2012 as Takata AG. Petri was known as a steering wheel manufacturer and as such a supplier to a number of automobile manufacturers.
After a bankruptcy in 2017, Takata was taken over by today's Joyson Safety Systems .
history
The foundation of the company dates back to 1933, when in Shiga ( Japan ) a factory under the name Takata Kojyo for the production of pull cords was established for parachutes. In the 1950s, the company increasingly developed seat belts , which were manufactured in large numbers from the 1960s. To ensure the safety of the belts, Takata built the world's first crash test facility in Japan in 1963 . Petri AG Aschaffenburg, which was still independent at the time, built the first airbag in 1981 in cooperation with Mercedes-Benz . In 2000, Takata took over Petri AG.
In 2014 the company had 55 production facilities and 15 research and development centers worldwide . Of the approximately 43,000 employees, over 13,000 were employed in Europe. In 2013 approx. 40% of the products were sold in America, approx. 26% in Europe and approx. 34% in Asia (15.6% of which in Japan).
Takata has 17 factories in Europe, including three in Romania: two in Arad for steering wheels and seat belts and one in Sibiu for airbags. These are for sale to the US company Key Safety Systems (KSS). .
On June 26, 2017, Takata filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo, as did the US subsidiary. This is not intended for European business. Measured by liabilities of more than one trillion yen (EUR 8.1 billion), it is one of the largest bankruptcies in Japanese economic history. On April 11, 2018, Takata was taken over by Key Safety Systems. In the course of the takeover, Key Safety Systems was renamed Joyson Safety Systems (JSS). JSS is now a joint venture between the Chinese Ningbo Joyson Electronic Corporation and the Hong Kong-based financial investor PAG (formerly Pacific Alliance Group )
Products
The Takata product range includes:
- Steering wheels
- Airbags for front and side impacts - including gas generators (20% market share around 2014)
- Seat belt systems
- Electronics / sensors for vehicles
- Automotive plastic parts
- Child seats
- Engineering services, e.g. B. in the area of crash tests or system modeling
Airbag deaths
In 2014, the American traffic safety authority NHTSA asked Takata to recall all installed front airbags in the more humid southern states of the United States, as there had been five deaths (4 in the USA , 1 in Malaysia ), which were clearly due to shrapnel injuries caused by metal fragments flying around and incorrectly deployed driver airbags. The reason for the incorrect deployment of the airbags was that Takata had replaced the fuel tetrazole with the cheaper ammonium nitrate in 2001. Ammonium nitrate is sensitive to changes in temperature and humidity and decomposes over time, creating more explosive compounds with a higher reaction speed and thus leading to greater airbag deployment.
In 2015, Takata started the largest recall campaign in the US (34 million vehicles) according to the requirements of the US traffic safety authority. Japanese car brands worldwide and car manufacturers with production facilities in the USA were affected. In May 2016, the recall of over 35 million additional airbags in the United States became known. Eleven deaths are associated with this defect.
In mid-January 2017, Takata and the US judicial authorities agreed on a fine of around 940 million euros. The company admitted criminal offenses and criminal charges were brought against three managers.
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Company figures ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Șoc în industria componentelor auto. Ce se întâmplă la Takata . In: newsar.ro . Retrieved June 27, 2017 (Romanian).
- ↑ Takata files for bankruptcy . In: Spiegel Online . June 26, 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- ↑ Japanese air bag-maker Takata acquired by Key Safety Systems as president resigns , at www.usatoday.com , accessed May 26, 2018
- ↑ Recall in USA: Airbag problems at Ferrari too . In: ORF.at . 17th July 2015.
- ↑ smh / dpa: Defective Takata airbags: car manufacturers in the USA threaten another mass recall. In: Spiegel Online. November 19, 2014, accessed November 20, 2014 .
- ^ Neil Gough, Jonathan Soble, Hiroko Tabuchi: Defective Takata Airbag Grows Into Global Problem for Manufacturer. In: New York Times online. November 18, 2014, accessed November 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Hiroko Tabuchi: Takata's Switch to Cheaper Airbag Propellant Is at Center of Crisis. In: New York Times online. November 19, 2014, accessed November 20, 2014 .
- ↑ dpa: Defective airbags from Japan trigger another mass recall. In: Focus Online. May 13, 2015, accessed May 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Huge recall at Takata: Supplier pulls another 35 million airbags out of service. In: Focus Online . May 4, 2016, Retrieved May 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Takata pays billions in fine in the airbag scandal. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved January 13, 2017, the same day.
