Haldex (company)
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Haldex AB also known as Haldex Group, is a Swedish
Sweden
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 public company
Public company
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 operating in the commercial vehicle industry. It is listed on the OMX
OMX
OMX AB is a Swedish-Finnish financial services company, formed in 2003 through a merger between OM AB and HEX plc and is now a part of the NASDAQ OMX Group since February 2008.It has two divisions, OMX Exchanges, which operates eight stock exchanges mainly in the Nordic and Baltic...

 Stockholm Stock Exchange
Stockholm Stock Exchange
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 (Mid Cap), and has an annual turnover
Revenue
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 of around 8,5 bn SEK
Swedish krona
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.

Concentrating core activities in vehicle dynamics
Vehicle dynamics
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, the environment and safety, Haldex business operations are split into three divisions
Division (business)
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: Commercial Vehicle Systems, Hydraulic Systems, and probably its most-known (although smallest) division - Traction Systems - which is better known as Haldex Traction, and produces limited slip couplings for "on-demand" four-wheel drive
Four-wheel drive
Four-wheel drive, 4WD, or 4×4 is a four-wheeled vehicle with a drivetrain that allows all four wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously...

 systems.

Products are primarily brake systems, technology for diesel engines, i.e. pumps and technology for reducing emissions of exhaust gases from engines, hydraulic systems and all-wheel-drive systems for passenger cars.

Haldex

Haldex operates in the commercial vehicle
Commercial vehicle
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 sector; specifically heavy trucks, trailers, and bus
Bus
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es.

Haldex Production plants

Haldex has production plants in the following countries

Brazil
Brazil
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 China
China
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 France
France
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 Germany
Germany
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 Hungary
Hungary
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Mexico
Mexico
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 USA Sweden
Sweden
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 India
India
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