Brembo buys Öhlins for $405 million

Brembo on Friday introduced its acquisition of Öhlins Racing, a well known producer of efficiency suspension elements for vehicles and bikes.

The acquisition value—$405 million—is the most important each paid by Brembo to accumulate one other firm, in line with the corporate, which added that the deal continues to be topic to regulatory approval and is predicted to shut in early 2025.

“Öhlins is a robust match for Brembo,” Matteo Tiraboschi, Brembo government chairman, mentioned in an announcement. “It’s a world-renowned model, with a strong enterprise and an unmatched fame, each on the racetrack and on the highway.”

Based in 1976 and based mostly close to Stockholm, Sweden, Öhlins designs and manufactures a wide selection of suspension elements for aftermarket and motorsports use, having equipped components to MotoGP, Components 1, World Superbike, NASCAR, and different race collection through the years. Its dampers are additionally utilized by automakers in automobiles starting from the Ariel Nomad to the Polestar 2.

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Öhlins employs roughly 500 folks throughout two manufacturing amenities and two R&D amenities (one every in Sweden and Thailand), and distribution facilities and testing facilities within the U.S., Germany, Sweden, and Thailand.

The corporate’s mixture of racing and road-car expertise ought to complement Brembo, which provides brakes for main racing collection and efficiency highway vehicles. Brembo-branded braking methods seem on the whole lot from the Subaru BRZ tS to the Bugatti Bolide. The acquisition additionally marks Brembo’s continued push into motorbike elements, following its acquisition of motorcycle-brake specialists SBS Friction and J.Juan in 2021.