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September 2010


Flight Systems Industrial Products acquires General Electric Vehicle Controls

On March 1, 2010, FSIP formalized an acquisition of certain assets of General Electric's Motion Controls Business. The acquired business is located primarily in Patillas, Puerto Rico, and manufactures and distributes controls used in various electric vehicle applications, including forklifts, neighborhood electric vehicles, golf carts, walkies, tuggers, go-cards and personnel carriers.

FSIP is the industry’s leading remanufacturer of controls for the electric vehicle control market.  FSIP remanufactures more than 45,000 controls annually for dealers, distributors and many of the industry’s leading OEMs. FSIP remanufactures controls for forklifts, aerial lifts, golf carts, scrubbers/sweepers, personnel carriers and mobility vehicles.

For more than 40 years GE has been a supplier to the world’s leading OEMs, with controls for the electric vehicle market.

FSIP and GE were involved in a joint venture, the GE/Flight Systems Service Center, for more than 12 years. During that time, FSIP served the needs of GE with remanufacturing, warranty services and the manufacturing of specific GE controls and components. The JV will be dissolved as of the acquisition date and FSIP will continue to provide GE customers with its remanufacturing requirements.

Also, through this acquisition, FSIP will continue to perform the warranty service for the GE product and will retain exclusive rights to the GE trademark.
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