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The nineties

1999

Introducing Sachs DynaStart®, a crankshaft starter generator for the future 42-V Power Net

Sachs Automotive Mexico opens its new torque converter plant in Ramos Arizpe/Saltillo.

Sachs signs a joint venture contract with Shanghai Huizhong Automotive Manufacturing Co., Ltd. for developing, manufacturing, and distributing shock absorbers and suspension struts.

1998

Founding of Sachs Race Engineering GmbH.

Founding of Sachs Handel GmbH with global responsibility for the spare parts business

Together with Beldesan, the Turkish market leader for dampers, Sachs founds the joint venture Sachs Beldesan Süspansiyon Sistemleri A.S.

1997

Sachs Boge Mexico
Acquisition of the Argentinean shock absorber manufacturer Delfabro, San Francisco

Sachs becomes the „official supplier“ for the Formula One racing teams Scuderia, Ferrari and Red Bull Sauber Petronas Concentration in the automobil business,

Sachs sells it‘s bicycle activities to SRAM Corp. and stops motorcycle activities Renaming of Fichtel & Sachs AG to Mannesmann Sachs AG.

1995 100th  anniversery of Sachs
1993

Merger of the two biggest German shock absorber makers Boge and Fichtel & Sachs.

New development center for automotive parts and systems in Schweinfurt begins operation Start of clutch production at Sachs Trnava, Slowakia

1991 Mannesmann acquires reminding shares of Fichtel & Sachs AG and acquires majority of shares in Boge AG, Eitorf
1990


Take over of the clutch manufacturer Borg & Beck in Mexico (today Sachs Mexico S.A. de C.V.)Building of the shock absorber production plant of Sachs Automotive of America in Florence, Kentucky USA



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