🏴☠️ Thegentlemen has just published a new victim : Zanini
Brief
zanini. com zoominfo. com/c/zanini/359207305 Zanini is the global market leader in automotive wheel trim — a Spanish family firm founded in 1965 in Barcelona, owned by the Torras family since 1976, with 1,800 employees across 12 plants on 3 continents. It makes 1 in 4 wheel covers sold worldwide (~100M units/year) for virtually every major OEM, plus grilles, emblems, EV charge-port covers and pedestrian airbag parts.
Its strategic pivot: radar-transparent, heated & illuminated front emblems (radomes) — first launched on VW Atlas, now featured on the new Mercedes CLA (2025) — the key sensor window for the autonomous-driving era. Proprietary tech: ZANICHROME® metallization (chrome-look without chrome, "night & day" effects, electromagnetic transparency) + 17 patent families and TactoTek IMSE license (2024). Funded privately (€81.