Article: Icon buys ContiTech's brake seals unit; UK group expands core automotive brake diaphragm unit into `worm player' with 1-million [pounds sterling] purchase of German business. (Rubber news).(Icon Polymer Group Ltd.)

Icon Polymer Group has bought the brake-chamber diaphragm (BCD) business of ContiTech Holding GmbH in Germany. The deal takes the UK group a step closer to achieving its stated aim of having 50-million [pounds sterling] ($70-million) turnover by 2005.

Retford, UK based Icon paid, "just in excess of 1 million [pounds sterling]," for the intellectual property rights and all assets of the German unit, said Richard Gogerty, Icon's managing director. The buy adds 1 million [pounds sterling] to Icon's annual 3 million [pounds sterling] sales in these "very safety critical, specialist items," he added.

Icon was already, "one of the leading players in Europe," ...

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