Thursday 6 October 2011

KTM announce worldwide partnership with ATHENA


Sports motorcycle specialist KTM have announced a worldwide partnership with parts manufacturer Athena who are best known for their cylinders, gaskets along with their GET technology products that have been used by KTM to maintain and monitor the on-track activities of their factory teams.

KTM, trading as KTM Power Sports AG are a leading international manufacturer of motorsports vehicles. KTM have already achieved 203 world championship titles and won the Dakar Rally ten consecutive times. The operational core business develops and produces race ready off-road and street motorcycles. The KTM-Sportcar GmbH is the company for the super lightweight sports car, the X-BOW, with which KTM has taken the first step into the automobile area.

Athena have three manufacturing plants in Alonte, Italy occupying a total area of 40,000 square meters of factory floor where it manufactures gaskets, stamped and pressed metal components, aluminum cylinders for internal combustion engines and other engine hard-parts. The dedicated R&D plant is home of the finest developments and the GET technology products. Athena also has manufacturing and/or sales and distribution facilities in Spain, Brazil, India and the USA.