{"id":149456,"date":"2021-02-15T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=149456"},"modified":"2021-06-05T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:59:36","slug":"borgwarner-adquirira-akasol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2021\/02\/15\/borgwarner-to-take-over-akasol\/","title":{"rendered":"BorgWarner adquirir\u00e1 Akasol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El proveedor automovil\u00edstico estadounidense BorgWarner quiere hacerse con el fabricante alem\u00e1n de sistemas de bater\u00edas Akasol. Es probable que la oferta de la empresa estadounidense tenga \u00e9xito, ya que al parecer BorgWarner ya se ha hecho con la mayor\u00eda de las acciones.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>++ Este art\u00edculo ha sido actualizado. Por favor, contin\u00fae leyendo a continuaci\u00f3n. ++<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/etiqueta-2\/akasol\/\">Akasol,<\/a> que tiene su sede en el estado alem\u00e1n de Hesse, afirma que ha firmado un Acuerdo de Combinaci\u00f3n de Negocios para entrar en una asociaci\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica con <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/etiqueta-2\/borgwarner\/\">BorgWarner<\/a> y la filial de BorgWarner Blitz F21-842. Se supone que esta asociaci\u00f3n dar\u00e1 a Akasol la oportunidad de \"aprovechar la plataforma empresarial global \u00fanica de BorgWarner, facilitando as\u00ed su ambiciosa estrategia de crecimiento en el campo de la e-movilidad y reforzando a\u00fan m\u00e1s su posici\u00f3n en el mercado de los sistemas de bater\u00edas\". La empresa alemana afirma que, en el marco de la asociaci\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica, Akasol seguir\u00e1 operando de forma independiente bajo la marca Akasol.<\/p>\n<p>BorgWarner ha presentado una oferta de adquisici\u00f3n voluntaria a los accionistas de Akasol AG. La empresa americana ofrece 120 euros por t\u00edtulo, lo que corresponde a una prima del 23,4% sobre el precio medio de los tres \u00faltimos meses. La adquisici\u00f3n de todas las acciones costar\u00eda as\u00ed a BorgWarner unos 730 millones de euros. Dado que el fundador de la empresa y consejero delegado del grupo, Sven Schulz, que posee alrededor del 47 por ciento de las acciones, y otros fundadores vender\u00e1n sus acciones, el grupo estadounidense ya se ha hecho con el 59 por ciento de las acciones de Akasol, superando as\u00ed la importante marca del 50 por ciento y una acci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>El consejero delegado de Akasol, Sven Schulz, declar\u00f3 que el consejo acog\u00eda con satisfacci\u00f3n la asociaci\u00f3n, ya que ofrec\u00eda una \"excelente perspectiva estrat\u00e9gica\". \"Tras m\u00e1s de 12 a\u00f1os de desarrollo empresarial exitoso e independiente como principal accionista y consejero delegado de Akasol, estoy convencido de que \u00e9ste es el siguiente paso adecuado para un futuro muy prometedor de nuestra empresa, por lo que, junto con los dem\u00e1s fundadores, he decidido ofrecer mis acciones a BorgWarner al precio de oferta, como clara se\u00f1al de confianza en su atractiva oferta y asociaci\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica\", declar\u00f3 Schulz. Otra raz\u00f3n para confiar en el acuerdo, seg\u00fan Schulz, es que \"BorgWarner comparte nuestra visi\u00f3n de la movilidad sin emisiones\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El proveedor automovil\u00edstico estadounidense BorgWarner quiere hacerse con el fabricante alem\u00e1n de sistemas de bater\u00edas Akasol. Es probable que la oferta de la empresa estadounidense tenga \u00e9xito ya que BorgWarner tiene<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":93610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[702,10230,62,13946],"class_list":["post-149456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-akasol","tag-batteries","tag-borgwarner","tag-suppliers"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"<p>Akasol is to continue independently as a brand in the future and Schulz will remain on board. &#8220;At the request of BorgWarner and based on my personal motivation, I will continue to lead Akasol as CEO together with my colleague Carsten Bovenschen, all founders and the management team,&#8221; Schulz said.<\/p>\n<p>Borgwarner intends to make the offer documents available along with further information relating to the public takeover offer. A separate website has been set up for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Akasol doubled its sales, but in 2020 business fell short of expectations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/05\/25\/akasol-registers-losses-last-quarter-due-to-pandemic\/\">in the first two quarters due to the Corona pandemic<\/a>. In the third quarter, the German battery systems manufacturer with particular focus on larger and commercial vehicles saw the expected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/08\/24\/akasol-increases-sales-despite-pandemic\/\">upturn in business thanks to some catch-up effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of October, Akasol also moved to its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/10\/07\/akasol-moves-into-darmstadt-headquarters\/\">headquarters in the southwest of Darmstadt.<\/a> In addition to the headquarters with administration, technology and development centre, a production plant has also been built there. An identical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/08\/20\/akasol-orders-machines-for-us-battery-factory-from-manz\/\">plant is currently being built in the USA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an important system supplier, BorgWarner has expanded its portfolio in recent years in the direction of electrification. For example, the American company now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/07\/22\/borgwarner-delivers-electric-drives-in-china\/\">supplies the drive for the Aiways U5<\/a>. Just last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2021\/02\/11\/borgwarner-presents-e-motor-for-large-vehicles\/\">BorgWarner announced a new electric motor for commercial vehicles<\/a> and Akasol is also very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2019\/09\/12\/akasol-lands-large-follow-up-order-for-commercial-vehicles\/\">active in the commercial vehicle<\/a> sector. In 2020, BorgWarner also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/10\/05\/borg-warner-concludes-delphi-takeover\/\">acquired the supplier Delphi Technologies<\/a> in order to expand its know-how in electronics and power electronics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 05 June 2021<\/strong>: The acquisition of Akasol by BorgWarner, announced in February, has now been completed. The US automotive supplier secures around 89 per cent of the shares in the German battery systems manufacturer, both companies announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainable-bus.com\/news\/borgwarner-akasol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustainable-bus.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akasol.com\/en\/news-akasol-borgwarner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">akasol.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akasol.com\/en\/news-akasol-borgwarner-completion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">akasol.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borgwarner.com\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2021\/06\/04\/borgwarner-completes-tender-offer-and-acquires-89.08-of-akasol-ag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">borgwarner.com<\/a> (both updates)<\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}