Collins & Aikman Selling Intellectual Property Portfolio
Collins & Aikman has mounted an intense marketing and sales initiative for the remaining intellectual property and intangible assets of Collins & Aikman. The company (and its predecessor companies, i.e., Textron Automotive, Manchester Plastics, etc.) is an industry leader in innovative interior and exterior automotive technologies. The intellectual property portfolio includes unique and proprietary products and processes that provide customers with increased value necessary in establishing and sustaining a significant position in today's intensely competitive global market. This global intellectual property portfolio is an enabler for attaining leadership in vehicles and components. Among other global industries that will have interest in these bundles are the chemical and plastics industries, as well as aircraft components manufacturers, and even plastic coated consumer goods manufacturers, such as laptops, PDAs, BlackBerrys, etc.
Major Categories Include:
- Instrument Panel Skin/Materials/Process
- Safety Systems/Invisible Airbag Door (107 patents)
- Interior Trim (96 patents)
- Skin Materials and Processes (67 patents)
- Console/Door Trim (18 patents)
- Decorative Finishes/Laminates (14 patents)
- Kinematics/Air Registers/Cupholders (45 patents)
- Exterior Trim (40 patents)
Collins & Aikman has selected CONSOR Intellectual Asset Management firm as its sales agent in this sell-off process. Please visit www.consor.com for additional information on the Collins & Aikman portfolio, along with a detailed listing of all of the intellectual property. For more information please contact: Gabe Fried 617.458.9355 or Daryl Martin 858.454.9091 ext. 214
Jim Wynalek, executive vice president at Collins & Aikman, stated that “with the utmost confidence this enormously valuable portfolio of technologies and patents will be of interest to a number of suitors, both within the automotive industry and external to it.”