150 Years BILSTEIN

150 Years. One Spirit.

Since 1873, we have been developing innovative technologies and products, promoting talented employees, and celebrating formative successes. That’s something we’re proud of. What drives us? The unconditional will to develop state-of-the-art shock absorbers for the perfect driving experience. Yesterday, today – and in the future.

Thank you for every single second.
Without the expertise of our teams, the trust of our partners and the passion of our customers, we would not be in pole position in suspension development today. We would like to use our anniversary to say an explicit thank you to all of them – for true pioneering spirit, lived progress and every single second in which we continue to write our success story together.

Thank you for 150 years

We are WAY AHEAD

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The evolution of our brand

We are WAY AHEAD.
And ready as never before for the next 150 years.

We are pioneers in suspension development – and offer top performance far beyond shock absorber technologies. Our new claim WAY AHEAD with the newly developed brand values as well as our fresh corporate design are a direct expression of our forward-looking attitude. The relaunch conveys our claim to leadership, captures the core of our identity and supports our striving for development in partnership.

EVOLUTION IN MOTION

Our new logo also reflects our brand identity. It visualizes our values, represents our broad portfolio and can be used flexibly in media of all kinds. Modern, future-oriented, determined. Just typical BILSTEIN.

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The BILSTEIN Spirit.

Ambition, drive, teamwork: writing history has never been enough for us. We’ve always wanted more! Together with our partners and customers, we want to shape the future of suspension technology. Innovative, ambitious, reliable, honest – and always focused on the perfect driving experience. This unique “BILSTEIN Spirit” is reflected in every second of the last 150 years.

ASPIRATION

BILSTEIN is in the lead: with groundbreaking innovations, premium quality, an unrivaled product range, and our expertise in series production. We aspire to constantly redefining driving safety, dynamics, and comfort. And as a specialist for vibration damping and suspensions, we are continuing to expand our leadership in all fields.

DRIVE

BILSTEINERS ambitiously seek for the better solution – relentlessly, full of curiosity and enthusiasm – even after our customers and competitors have decided things are fine as they are. We recognize perfection when we feel it on our test drives, we are not satisfied with anything less, and we are proud when our efforts spark joy in others or even win awards. This is what drives us.

TEAMWORK

BILSTEINERS create open and intimate partnerships built on trust. We owe our success as a pioneer and market leader to the people, their expertise, their team spirit, and the synergies that arise from goal-oriented teamwork on equal footing.

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You too can feel the spirit!

As an employer, we are as innovative as our technologies and as passionate as our customers. Accept the challenge & develop your potential with us!

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Blue-yellow gets the pulse racing.

Our identity is shaped by genuine engineering expertise and numerous successes in motorsport. We are proud that our partners regularly cross the finish line as winners – and that our brand colors thus unmistakably reflect the success of our daily work. BILSTEIN blue-yellow stands for top performance, passion, teamwork – on and off the track.

BILSTEIN Global

Today, BILSTEIN is one of the largest and most innovative shock absorber manufacturers in the world, with locations in six countries.

Globally on the road

Tomorrow’s feeling counts more than yesterday’s performance.

Our goal is to shape the present and future of suspension engineering. For us, it’s not just the current success that counts, but above all the next innovation. As a progressive development partner to leading automotive brands, we work tirelessly to consistently bring technological progress to the road – in the areas of vehicle development, series replacement, performance, motorsport and new mobility.

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Yesterday, we revolutionized shock absorbers.
Today, we’re celebrating 150 years of BILSTEIN.
Tomorrow, we are shaping the future of suspension engineering.