Talk:ZF Friedrichshafen/Archives/2012

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The revenue is of course not million, but billion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.119.255.195 (talk) 18:37, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Come on you guys, an enterprise with a revenue of €12,501 millions wouldn´t possibly make it into Wikipedia. Check the German version. "Milliarden" translates as billions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.119.255.195 (talk) 10:06, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Whole thing reads a lot like PR stuff.

Borg Warner has been an independent company since at least 1993, and their company history page does not refer to ZF at all. I spent a few minutes with Google and couldn't find anything to support the claim that ZF bought Borg Warner in 1972. Can anyone verify this? --Rkstafford 15:48, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I was able to review the ZF Group history on the company website and found the following information on the Borg Warner / ZF connection.

In 1970 ZF and Borg Warner established "ZF Borg Warner Gmbh" to build automatic transmissions for the European market in Saarbruken Germany.

In 1972 ZF bought out Borg Warner's shares in the joint venture and renamed the company "ZF Getreibe Gmbh"

ZF is still the largest independant transmission builder in the world, with 130 facilites and sales of greater than 10 Billion Euro's.

In addition ZF has a Marine division which build reduction gears, gearboxes, and controls for commercial and pleasure craft, in addition to transmissions and various chassis components for the world auto and commercial markets.

ZF is also responsible for the Zeppelin NT ( new technology ) sight seeing airships which provide tourist excursions over Lake Constance near the ZF headquarters in Friedrichshafen. Also home of the Zeppelin museum. Lexan Rex (talk) 21:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Rail
ZF also produce final drives for rail vehicles - doesn't seem to mention rail in the text of the products section - I guess they whole section could be expanded a bit.. Anyone who actually understands this stuff want to add it? (Otherwise I could try...)
 * Please be brave and add any detail you wish, regards. 78.32.143.113 (talk) 09:13, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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I will delete the first two sentences of the history because the sentences do not make the least sense, apart from that the company's history should NOT begin with US operations, since the US never was too much of an important market for ZF anyways. 74.73.161.158 (talk) 23:22, 29 September 2010 (UTC)