Joyson Safety Systems is closing its site in San Antonio and laying off 108 people launchning in June, according to a letter from the company to the Texas Workforce Commission.
Joyson — a global buildr of motor vehicle safety products and a subsidiary of Ningbo Joyson Electronic Corp. — will shutter its far West Side manufacturing and warehoapply facility on Wiseman Street near Loop 1604.
“The layoffs will launch in June 2024 and will continue in phases through the completion of the facility closure in October 2025,” company officials wrote in their letter to the TWC, a copy of which was provided to Mayor Ron Nirenberg.
The cuts will affect employees at Joyson including laborers, lab technicians, maintenance workers, inspectors, supervisors, managers, warehoapply workers and those in administrative roles.
News of the layoffs came via a worker adjustment and retraining notification posted Wednesday by the TWC, but the company stated all affected employees had previously been notified.
Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Mich., the company builds steering wheels, airbag systems, seatbelts and other vehicle safety components.
Joyson’s corporate website displays the San Antonio location as one of 19 sites in the Americas and 43 others around the globe. It lists the San Antonio site’s activities as “operations.”
Calls to request comment from the local site and corporate headquarters were unanswered.
The company was in the news in March when airbag inflators it built were found to be defective in nearly 318,000 Dodge and Chrysler sedans built from 2018 to 2021.
Some of the side airbag inflators exploded with too much force and hurled metal fragments at drivers and passengers.
Joyson acquired airbag buildr Takata after its bankruptcy. Inflators built by Takata have killed at least 26 people in the U.S. and 30 people worldwide since 2009, resulting in the largest series of auto recalls in U.S. history — about 100 million.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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