Originally Posted by
pdlamb
Live and learn, I did not know that. I knew they'd bought Sachs, whhich had plants in Germany and then Portugal, IIRC. So does SRAM have any manufacturing capability in the U.S.? any assembly? any engineering? Or is it like, for example, Specialized, which outsources everything and might have a warehouse to receive all those containerized freight shipments?
According to Wikipedia, SRAM has manufacturing facilities in Portugal, Taiwan, China, and the U.S. I'm sure that includes brands that SRAM owns, so Zipp wheels would be an example of a SRAM product made in the U.S. At least some engineering is done in the U.S.; the company has a
design/test/R&D center in Colorado Springs.
SRAM is unlike Specialized in that SRAM actually has their own production facilities. Specialized hires factories in Taiwan and China.
SRAM owns a factory in Taiwan.