| Industry | Automotiveindustry Plastic production |
|---|---|
| Founded | Takata Shiga, Japan (1933) Petri Aschaffenburg, Germany (1899) |
| Founder(s) | Takezo Takada Richard Petri |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan Aschaffenburg, Germany |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | steering wheels Interior trims Airbagsystems Seat belts Electronics Child restraint systems |
| Employees | 35,000 World wide 11,000 in Europe |
| Website | www.takata.com |
Takata Corporation is an automotive parts company based in Japan. The company has production facilities on four continents, with its European headquarters located in Germany, where it also has nine production facilities[1]. It had an around 4 billion euros in turnover in 2008[1].
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The Petri AG was founded in Aschaffenburg in 1899 by Richard Petri and started to produce steering wheels and interior trims. Petri founded the first plant (Plant 01) in Aschaffenburg, which is now the European Headquarter. Later Petri Expanded a few times and added othe plants to produce plastic parts, like the Plant 02 in Nielkheim, near Aschaffenburg and Plant 03 in Albertshausen, near Bad Kissingen. The Steering Wheel production is still in Aschaffenburg. Other Plastic parts or interior trims are more produce in Albertshausen (Plant 03). Beside this main producing Plants, Petri founded also some researching and assembling Plants later. In 1981 Petri developed and produced the first airbagsystem in collaboraion with Mercedes-Benz. In 2000 Takata KK and Petri AG merged to Takata-Petri.
The Company was founded in 1933 in Shiga, Japan by Takezo Takada and started to produce lifelines for parachutes and other textiles. In the early 1950s, Takata started to research Seat belts caused by the need of more safety. Later they incorporat as "Takata". In the 1960s, Takata started to sell Seat belts and built the worlds first Crash test plant for testing the seat belts under real world conditions, and optimize them. In the 70's Takata want to give the child more safety in cars, and succeed. They developed child restraint systems. In the 80's their name changed to "Takata Corporation" and expanded to Korea, USA and later to Ireland in Europe to sell seatbelts. In the 90's Takata expanded massive, all over the world. Also in Europe and Germany, where it cames to the first fusion in 1995. In 2000 Takata KK and Petri AG merged to Takata-Petri.
Takata-Petri, is the global leaders in the producing steering wheels and researching/producing plastic parts, not only in the automotive industry. They are also one of the top employee, and deliver best quality of plastic parts world wide.