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Automotive Safety Components International Inc company history timeline

1992

Sales were $7 million in 1992.

1993

Zummo had in 1993 bought Valentec International Corp. from Insilco Corp., a Big Board-listed United States defense contractor based in Meriden, Connecticut, that had acquired Valentec eight years earlier.

1994

For an 11-month fiscal year ended March 31, 1994, they were up to $22.4 million.

The company completed an initial public offering on the NASDAQ (ticker: ABAG) in May 1994.

1994: Safety Components International (SCI), a subsidiary of defense contractor Valentec, is spun off in an initial public offering.

Auto air-bag maker Safety Components International Inc. said it has acquired the car parts company that has been its major shareholder since its inception in 1994.

1995

Sales reached $51.8 million in 1995, with net income of $2.1 million.

A research and development center was set up there in 1995.

A joint venture was established in China in 1995 but was ended after four years.

Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Bosch led the invention of ESC in 1995 with the Mercedes-Benz S 600 Coupé and BMW 7 Series (E38) being the first models to have it fitted.

1996

An 80 percent share of Phoenix Airbag GmbH, based in Hildesheim, Germany, was acquired in 1996 for about $22 million, plus up to an additional $7.5 million if it met certain financial targets.

1999

The first worldwide radar-assisted adaptive cruise control was introduced by Mercedes-Benz on its S-Class and CL-Class in 1999.

2000

Safety Components filed for bankruptcy protection in April 2000 and emerged from the prearranged Chapter 11 reorganization six months later.

Increasing airbag use in Europe and Asia was expected to push demand to 158 million modules by 2000.

2001

In November 2001, Safety Components, through its U.K. subsidiary Automotive Safety Components International Limited, acquired Woodville Airbag Engineering from Smiths Group plc subsidiary TISPP UK Limited in November 2001.

2002

Galion, Inc., an Ohio-based defense business, was sold to an affiliate of The Diversified Group Incorporated in December 2002 for $454,000.

2021

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