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A pioneer of automotive safety, Italian manufacturer of premium car seats and seatbelts Sabelt is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Founded in 1972, the company has its pedigree rooted in motorsport, with its cuttingedge safety solutions being used across the sport – before being adapted for road applications – and even aerospace. Jordan Yallop spoke to Massimiliano Marsiaj, Vice Chairman and Business Development Manager at Sabelt to find out more.
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abelt is a company with decades of experience in automotive safety and seat manufacture built upon four pillars of success: technology, service, lightweight and safety. The company’s pioneering technology graces the biggest names in the automotive and motorsport worlds and is even present in the cuttingedge aerospace industry. It is easy to see that Sabelt has its eye on the best quality on the market when you consider that seven out of ten Formula One teams buy their seat belts from Sabelt. With the company celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Massimiliano Marsiaj, Vice Chairman and Business Development Manager at Sabelt, was keen to highlight how the industry has evolved during this time. “The industry has developed greatly in the past 50 years,” he began. “It started as a local industry; each country would have their own car manufacturers, and their own range of suppliers to produce the cars. My father is a huge fan of the UK and we started with a licence from a UK based company. He used to go regularly to the UK and have a few suppliers there who could licence the technology, sell components, and then he would assemble them in Italy. Inside Industry
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