Marzocchi to stop production

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Alarm bells have begun to ring at the Marzocchi factory in Bolonga, Italy with news filtering out that the company is set to close

Recent talks with FIOM-CGIl ? the Italian workers union who represent those employed in businesses engineering ? have indicated that Marzocchi ? owned by US multinational Tenneco ? plan to cease trading at the Bologna plant*.

A date when this is due to happen has not yet been revealed, but it does come as a major source of worry for the 100-plus workforce.

In July 2013, the company had 40 redundancies while employees saw an average reduction of 35% in hours.

With ongoing market difficulties being one of the major factors involving the uncertainty of the company?s future, it looks like Marzocchi face some tense times ahead.

In the off road motorcycle industry, Marzocchi are currently OEM?s for Gas Gas and Beta.

Since 2008 all bicycle forks have been manufactured in Taiwan.

Marzocchi ? an Italian suspension manufacture ? was founded in 1949 by brothers Stefano and Guglielmo Marzocchi but in 2008 the company was acquired by American automotive parts Tenneco.

Trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Tenneco recorded a full-year revenue of $8.4 billion in 2014.

Tenneco own 11 different brands and employ 26,000.

*Source - www.ilrestodelcarlino.it
 
Interesting, the gasgas Europe factory race team are using KYB ( you can tell by the axel lugs, top cap and the seal housing at the base of the upper tube) they have disguised them with carbon fibre protectors and tape around the seal housing. One guy is using wp cone valve 52mm and tax shock ( I suspect he owns them). I would say gg will use kyb next year.

If they start making the pfp fork in Taiwan, by all reports it will be better quality, the marzocchi bike forks improved when they went there.

Sad for the Italian workers though.
 
Go to the gg us facebook site, there are better pics. Looks like the lugs off husky or yz250. Def. not mz.
 
GasGas said:
Alarm bells have begun to ring at the Marzocchi factory in Bolonga, Italy with news filtering out that the company is set to close

Recent talks with FIOM-CGIl ? the Italian workers union who represent those employed in businesses engineering ? have indicated that Marzocchi ? owned by US multinational Tenneco ? plan to cease trading at the Bologna plant*.


*Source - www.ilrestodelcarlino.it
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Is this the money quote? I was reworking a set of Zokes today and thinking how much I'd miss the PFP fork if they go away. Not that I'd be super excited to have Taiwanese forks, but then again ...
 
Simmo737 said:
https://www.facebook.com/3054768900...741826.305476890018/10155564614095019/?type=1

Gold top caps, seal housing with double bump, square axel lugs.
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Unless you've got some sort of super-magnifier I'm not sure I'd agree with the assessment ... the caps aren't the same color as the hubs for instance, and it appears that the current lower fork guards bolted right up.

Not saying they aren't KYBs, just that by looking at that photo I couldn't say they aren't Zokes either.
 
The big pointer for me is the shape of the axel lug, have a look at a pfp fork and tell me it's not different.
 
I know that the German gas gas team is using Showa forks. I wouldn't take care too much about e suspension the factory teams are using, normally it has nothing to do with the stock bikes.


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Vindicator said:
Interesting is that they are using the OEM triple clamps . KYB internals inside the Marzocchi tubes ?
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Latest KYBs use the same clamping diameters as the Marzocchis. If they are in fact going to KYBs they may have had new plastic molded, or may have modified the lugs to accept current guards.

On a related aside, my bet is that Tenneco moves the fork production to another location ... it would seem that their move of MTB fork production to Taiwan was a positive one, and the same is likely for their motorcycle legs.
 
I don't have notes on the upper claming area of the Husky KYBs or the axle..

But from the quick pics I've pulled 2013 Red and Black TE310 from memory used the KYB SSS, also have black uppers, and very similarly shaped plastics. I'd be leaning in that direction. Unless if they were only OC. Not 100% familiar on what came with what.
 
twowheels said:
Latest KYBs use the same clamping diameters as the Marzocchis. If they are in fact going to KYBs they may have had new plastic molded, or may have modified the lugs to accept current guards.

On a related aside, my bet is that Tenneco moves the fork production to another location ... it would seem that their move of MTB fork production to Taiwan was a positive one, and the same is likely for their motorcycle legs.
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There were some initial hiccups when they moved the MTB stuff, but after a couple years it was business as normal. They also made a lot of design changes when they moved so it was probably more that than anything.
 
The axle nut seems the same but the lugs seem KYB

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Jakobi said:
I don't have notes on the upper claming area of the Husky KYBs or the axle..

But from the quick pics I've pulled 2013 Red and Black TE310 from memory used the KYB SSS, also have black uppers, and very similarly shaped plastics. I'd be leaning in that direction. Unless if they were only OC. Not 100% familiar on what came with what.
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I think the Enduro model came with OC and the MX with CC. Not sure if the CC's where exactly like Yamaha's SSS or more like Kawasaki's AOS .
 
I have a pair of husky KYBs on my wife's 2011 GasGas. They are SSS and fit the Zokes clamps on my beta. Had to machine the lower on the wife's bike and the fork guards fit.
 
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