Steering Wheels   A large number of steering wheels are today integrated with driver airbags and manufactured as one single unit. Autoliv is a leader in this development and designs and manufactures steering wheels as part of our Total Safety System concept. Electronics capabilities are becoming increasingly important for advanced steering wheels as more electronic bottons and features are integrated with the steering wheel. Autoliv has developed a fixed hub steering wheel that holds two major advantages to the traditional steering wheel: 1. Because the hub is fixed, it can contain an assymmetric airbag to give the driver optimized protection, 2. Because the steering wheel has a fixed hub it can hold a large number of controls to be more visible and easily accessible to the driver. Production processes used for steering wheels include: Aluminium or Magnesium die-casting and steel-welding (for frames), Polyurethane (PUR) foaming, leather and wood processes, one shot and two shot plastic injection (for plastic parts like airbag covers or non airbags covers) and electronic component assembly (for example heating grips).   Autoliv entered the steering wheel market in 1995 by acquiring IsoDelta in France. In 1998, we opened a North American plant in Indiana and acquired, in 2000, the second largest steering wheel company in Japan. We have also started steering wheel operations in China, Brazil, Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey, as well as leather-wrapping of steering wheels in Mexico, Philippines and Tunisia.