In November 1997 SRAM acquired Sachs Bicycle Components, including a significant hub gear production line, from Mannesmann Sachs AG, a unit of German telecommunications group Mannesmann AG.
Once a predominantly agricultural center, it is now an industrial hub with two SKF plants and one of ZF Sachs.
In the early 1970s, Sachs produced the revolutionary Wankel rotary engine powered Hercules motorcycle.
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The company, since the 1960s, manufactured brake linings under a licence from Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, U.S.A. A similar agreement was executed with Fichtel & Sachs A.G. (nowZF Sachs), of West Germany in November 1972 for the manufacture of F & S clutches from 1972 for a period of 5 years.