September 2026

Bike Europe on the Factory Floor

Automation, integration and ambition shape production

Gazelle frames in factory hall

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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.

Ananda's Wuxi - detail of tenhnology

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Inside Ananda's Wuxi factory

Manufacturing scale and vertical integration have become central to Ananda's ambitions in the global e-bike market.

Pirelli employee in factory

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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.

vanRaam frames in factory

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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.