American BOA Inc

American BOA Inc. was incorporated in 1956 and began operations in New York and New Jersey. The company relocated and consolidated operations in 1981 in Cumming, GA.Registered since 1988 as a corporation in Georgia.
American BOA is a subsidiary of BOA BKT Gmbh. The BOA group consists of 20 subsidiaries and other major shareholdings across the world.
Business
Design, manufacture and market products where flexibility, thermal growth or vibration are the primary concern. Primary products manufactured include: Flexible Metal Hoses, Cryogenic & Vacuum Connectors, Engine Exhaust Bellows, Metal Bellows, Expansion joint, Automotive Decoupling Joints, Instrument Bellows and Specialized Fabrications.
Markets Served
All major industrialized manufacturing processes that require piping and changes in temperature utilize our services and products: Automotive, Power Generation, Cryogenics/Industrial Gases, Solar, Engine Manufacturers, OEM's, Steel Mills/Metals, Vacuum Technology, Chemical/Petrochemical, Water/Waste Water and many more.
Cost Cutting in the Automobile Industry
In January of 2001 Chrysler imposed a 5 percent price cut on their 1st tier suppliers ArvinMeritor Inc which trickles down to the second tier providers such as American Boa Inc. The raw materials needed for the parts built by companies like American Boa are provided by big steel companies that have the liberty not to take a cut so the smaller middle man companies are the ones who absorb them.
Turn Around
The company is expected to hit $75 million in revenue for 2012, after sinking to $32 million in 2009 when GM and Chrysler filed bankruptcy. This is attributed to the chief financial officer who joined the company in 2007, Rune Are. Since implementing his turnaround plan, Cumming-based American BOA has seen a 134 percent increase in annual revenues over the past three years.
BOA Group History
October 25th 1872
Foundation of Henri Ehrmann & Co.
Factory for metal cartridges in Karlsruhe / Germany
1898
Patent for "flexible metal tubes with beading folds" (convolutions)
Production of bellows and metal hoses for industrial applications
Company was the first ever manufacturer of seamless corrugated tubes in the world
1932
Licence production of Titeflex hoses
First steel expansion joints instead of tombac ones (as hitherto)
Production now includes metal hoses, metal bellows, expansion joints and
apparatus for heat economy
1945 until 1949
Renaming in "Industriewerke Karlsruhe AG" (IWK)
Patent for a technique for the production of warmly deformed steel bellows
1970
Merger with the company Keller & Knappich in Augsburg / Germany
Renaming of the company in "Industriewerke Karlsruhe Augsburg" (IWKA)
Divisions: Textile Technique, Expansion Joints and Control Technology,
Packaging Machines, Municipal Vehicles, Welding Machines, Machine Tools,
Military Technology, Molding and Drawing Technology
April 1st 1980
Foundation of "IWK Regler and Kompensatoren GmbH"
(Control Systems and Expansion Joints)
Relocation of the production plant to Stutensee-Blankenloch near Karlsruhe
Products: Control units, devices for measurement, expansion joints,
metal bellows and metal hoses
1987
Acquisistion of the companies
Tubest S.A. in Fère en Tardenois / France
Manufacturer of flexible metal hoses and
SFZ in Chassieu near Lyon / France
Manufacturer of expansion joints
1990
Acquisition of BOA AG in Rothenburg / Switzerland
as well as all subsidiaries and shareholdings in the USA,
the Netherlands, France, etc.
Manufacturer of expansion joints, metal bellows and metal hoses
Foundation of IWKA Regler und Kompensatoren Vertriebs GmbH in Quedlinburg / Germany
Assembling of metal hoses
2000
Selling of the control systems division to the Danish Danfoss Group
2001
Renaming of "IWK Regler and Kompensatoren GmbH" in
IWKA Balg- und Kompensatorentechnologie GmbH"
(Bellows and Expansion Joints Technology)
2002
Takeover of shares of the company Famas S.A. in Lodz / Poland
Assembling of metal hoses
2003
Foundation of IWKA South Africa (Pty) Ltd. in Port Elizabeth / South Africa
Manufacturer of metal hoses for exhaust systems
2006
IWKA AG (Holding) sells IWKA BKT with all its subsidiaries and shareholdings to the
German Private Equity company "Odewald Compagnie für Beteiligungen mbH" in Berlin
Renaming of the IWKA BKT GmbH in BOA BKT GmbH
Foundation of the BOA Holding GmbH as Holding company
for the whole BOA Group
2007
Foundation of sales offices
"BBA Kompensatoren und Rohrleitungstechnik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH" in Vienna / Austria
and "BBA Kompenzátory s.r.o." in Pilsen / Czech Republic
2008
Foundation of BOA (Shanghai) Bellows Technology Ltd. in China
2010
Renaming of Tubest Flexible Solutions S.A.
in BOA Flexible Solutions S.A.S.
Foundation of BOA Flexible Solutions Ltd. in Chertsey/UK
AEA Investors LP becomes new shareholder of the BOA Group
2011
Acquisition of Flexial Corp. in Cookeville/TN, USA

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