On January 1, 2007, the Poway, CA facility operated by Utah based MacLean Quality Composites will become a part of NY based Serotta Competition Bicycles.
The transition is the result of months of discussions between the collective management teams of MQC and Serotta.
Ben Serotta and Dean Gestal the respective CEOs of the firms jointly stated, “Our companies have enjoyed an excellent working partnership of more than five years. At the core of the relationship has been our honest and open dialog, in which weve shared some of our long range strategic plans and concerns with each other.”
Serottas annexation of the Poway facility stems directly from these talks as Serotta sought to increase its potency in composites while MQC continues to both strengthen and streamline its operations by concentrating efforts on its two main facilities in Salt Lake and China.
As part of the agreement, Serotta will retain employment of the small dedicated Poway staff headed by lead engineer Mike Lopez. Under the agreement, Lopez, a composites industry guru, will continue to provide engineering and consulting services to MQC and its customers on an on-call basis. According to Lopez, “this coordinated transition is a win, win, win result for all parties involved.”
