September 2026 Bike Europe on the Factory Floor Automation, integration and ambition shape production CONTENTS 2 Dutch heritage meets high-tech at Gazelle Companies in the bicycle industry with a 100-year history are hard to come by. Gazelle is one of them. 4 Inside Ananda's Wuxi factory Manufacturing scale and vertical integration have become central to Ananda's ambitions in the global e-bike market. 5 Precision drives Pirelli's bicycle industry comeback Pirelli repurposed its automotive tyre factory near Milan when it strategically decided to re-enter the bicycle tyre market in 2017. 7 vanRaam counts on fully-integrated production “We have the biggest factory in the world for making tricycles,” CEO Jan-Willem Boezel says of the vanRaam location in the Netherlands.