Full Description

TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. is a diversified supplier of automotive systems, modules and components to global automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and related aftermarkets. The Company conducts its operations through its subsidiaries. These operations primarily include design, manufacture and sale of active and passive safety related products. Active safety related products refer to vehicle dynamic controls (primarily braking and steering), and passive safety related products principally refer to occupant restraints (primarily air bags and seat belts) and safety electronics (electronic control units and crash and occupant weight sensors). The Company has three segments: chassis systems, occupant safety systems, and automotive components.

Chassis Systems

The Company’s chassis systems segment focuses on the design, manufacture and sale of product lines relating to steering, foundation brakes, brake control, linkage and suspension, and modules. Its product line comprises of steering gears and systems, which are electrically assisted power steering systems (column-drive, rack-drive type), electrically powered hydraulic steering systems, and hydraulic power and manual rack and pinion steering gears, hydraulic steering pumps, fully integral commercial steering systems, commercial steering columns and pumps; foundation brakes include front and rear disc brake calipers, drum brake and drum-in-hat parking brake assemblies, rotors, drums, electric park brake systems; modules include brake modules, corner modules, pedal box modules, strut modules, front cross-member modules, rear axle modules; brake controls comprise of four-wheel antilock braking system (ABS), electronic vehicle stability control systems, active cruise control systems, actuation boosters and master cylinders, electronically controlled actuation, brake controls for regenerative brake systems, and linkage and suspension include forged steel and aluminum control arms, suspension ball joints, rack and pinion linkage assemblies, conventional linkages, commercial steering linkages and suspension ball joints, semi-active roll control systems, active dynamic control systems.

The Company competes with Advics, Bosch, Continental-Teves, JTEKT, and ZF.

Occupant Safety Systems

The Company’s occupant safety systems segment focuses on the design, manufacture and sale of air bags, seat belts, safety electronics, steering wheels and security electronic systems. Its product line comprises of air bags, which include driver air bag modules, passenger air bag modules, side air bag modules, curtain air bag modules, knee air bag modules, single and dual stage air bag inflators; seatbelts include retractor and buckle assemblies, pretensioning systems, height adjusters, active control retractor systems; safety electronics include front and side crash sensors, vehicle rollover sensors, air bag diagnostic modules, weight sensing systems for occupant detection, lane departure warning systems; steering wheels include full range of steering wheels from base designs to leather, wood, heated designs, including multifunctional switches and integral air bag modules, and security electronics include remote keyless entry systems, advanced theft deterrent systems, direct tire pressure monitoring systems.

The Company competes with Autoliv, Bosch, Delphi, Key Safety, and Takata.

Automotive Components

The Company’s automotive components segment focuses on the design, manufacture and sale of engine valves, body controls, and engineered fasteners and components. Its product line comprises of engine valves, which include engine valves, and valve train components; body controls includes display and heating, ventilating and air conditioning electronics, controls and actuators, motors, power management controls, man/machine interface controls and switches, including an array of automotive ergonomic applications, such as steering column and wheel switches, rotary connectors, climate controls, seat controls, window lift switches, air bag disable switches, and rain sensors, and engineered fasteners and components includes engineered and plastic fasteners and precision plastic moldings and assemblies.

The Company competes with Delphi, Eaton, ITW, Kostal, Nifco, Raymond, Tokai Rika, and Valeo.