Bosch Van Doorne’s Transmissie (Bosch) develops, manufactures and sells marketleading pushbelts for use in Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), an innovative automatic transmission system for the automotive market.
The company, which has many years experience in its field, is the industry leader in the development of CVT pushbelt technology and in May this year produced its ten-millionth pushbelt. Through its various development programmes the company is keen to demonstrate the advantages of CVT technology to the modern automotive industry. The company has a strong heritage and tradition, and vast experience, both in the entire CVT design as in the manufacturing of a range of pushbelt designs. The business has its roots in the development of the first pushbelts in the Netherlands in the late 1950s by Dr. Hub van Doorne. Later, in 1972, Van Doorne established a manufacturing facility called Van Doorne’s Transmissie BV to produce the pushbelts. Following extensive expansion – the company was producing around 250,000 units per year in the 1990s – Van Doorne’s Transmissie was taken over by the Bosch Group in 1995.
