Think back, if you will, to the beginning of January 2025. In the midst of all the rough KTM insolvency news, that's also when we learned about another business that was about to bite the dust thanks to the situation.
It was a metal foundry called Vöcklabrucker Metallgießerei GmbH, and this firm had apparently been around for nearly seven decades. In fact, it was looking forward to celebrating its official 70th anniversary in 2025—a thing that now no longer looked like it was going to happen in January. You see, KTM Components had taken 100 percent control of the foundry in late 2024, shortly before its own fortunes tumbled down, and down.
But as luck would have it, VMG may have been down, with its employees' jobs—to say nothing of their literal decades of specialized metallurgical expertise—in serious danger. Thankfully, though, that's all over now.
