It doesn't roll off the tongue as KTM does, but by the end of this piece, you're going to know a little more about the Austrian metal foundry called Vöcklabrucker Metallgießerei GmbH.
For one thing, it's been around for a long time—since 1955, in fact. That means, if you're doing the math, it was due to celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2025. While that doesn't quite have the punch of a 75th anniversary, it's still a long time for a company to be around. Most probably, it would've taken great pride in celebrating the decades of metalwork it had provided to its customers.
But not any longer.
Why? Because on December 13, 2024, the Austrian foundry officially filed for insolvency with local Austrian courts. Vöcklabrucker Metallgießerei GmbH was a wholly-owned subsidiary of KTM Components, which in turn is one of the three KTM subsidiaries that declared insolvency a short time before the foundry did, according to KSV1870 (an Austrian credit protection association).
It wasn't always this way, of course. In fact, KTM Components only took over Vöcklabrucker very recently, on September 1, 2024, according to numerous local Austrian news outlets. About 50 percent of the foundry's orders came from KTM Components, while the remainder came from outside customers.
