In the next five years, the company estimates it will need a supplementary volume of 12 million airbags.
In 2013, TRW Automotive opened a new steering wheel leather wrapping plant in the northern Romanian city of Baia Mare. The Baia Mare plant started operations in January with 300 employees, and planned to hire up to 350 more employees by the end of 2013.
TRW Automotive started operations in Romania in 2004 with steering wheel leather wrapping in Timisoara and has expanded its activities to cover die-casting, foaming and airbag production.
In addition to Timisoara and Baia Mare, TRW has three further sites in Oravita, Lupeni and Marghita employing a total of around 3400 staff.