Yamaha sells engine manufacturer Motori Minarelli to Fantic Motor
Yamaha Motor Europe is preparing to sell its title deeds of Motori Minarelli – 100% owned by the Japanese coat of arms since 2002 – to the Italian manufacturer Fantic. This transaction aims to strengthen cooperation between the two companies, announces the brand with three tuning forks. Decryption.
"Yamaha Motor Europe intends to strengthen its cooperation with Fantic Motor by notably transferring all the issued shares of Motori Minarelli to Fantic Motor", announces the European subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Co, which has owned Minarelli since 2002.
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The sale comes as part of "ongoing work to strengthen commercial ties" between Fantic and Yamaha, which officially "notified the local Motori Minarelli works council on October 7" of its intention..
Well known to lovers of two-stroke, Minarelli is an Italian manufacturer established since 1951 in Bologna (Italy). Became an engine manufacturer on behalf of other brands in 1970, Motori Minarelli was bought in 2002 by Yamaha to manufacture the engines for some of its small displacement..
80,000 engines per year
The single cylinders of the MT-125 and YZF-R125 below notably come from the chains of the Italian manufacturer, whose "192" employees assemble a total of "80,000 engines from 50 to 400 cc per year" both for Yamaha and also for other manufacturers including Fantic.
Fantic Motor SPA is acquiring it to develop its industrial tool while retaining access to certain Yamaha technologies, in accordance with an exchange agreement signed in 2019 with the brand in tuning forks.
Fantic – which is also moving towards electric with its and its electrically assisted bicycles (VAE) – will share its expertise in electrification, a field on which the major generalist manufacturers are eyeing more and more seriously. Yamaha.
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