ALLEVARD REJNA Autosuspensions grew out of the merger, at the end of 1999, of ATELIERS METALLURGIQUES DE SAINT URBAIN (AMSU), a group specializing in the design and manufacture of elastic suspension elements and precision springs, and ALLEVARD SPRINGS Automobile, a group specializing in the design of elastic suspension elements, whose know-how goes back almost a century. Ever since this merger, ALLEVARD REJNA Autosuspensions has been pursuing the strategy of world-wide development previously followed by ALLEVARD SPRINGS Automobile and SOGEFI, AMSU’s shareholder. In pursuit of this policy, the following milestones are worthy of note: At the beginning of 2000, it acquired 100% of LIGGETT ARGENTINA, an Argentinean company specializing in the manufacture of springs and stabilizer bars. At the beginning of 2001, it acquired 100% of the British and Dutch companies UNITED SPRINGS Ltd and UNITED SPRINGS BV both specialists in precision springs. It also acquired 100% of ALLEVARD RENAULT Technologie Froid which changed its name to ALLEVARD REJNA Technologie Froid, a company specializing in the field of coil springs manufactured using the cold process. During 2001, it built a coil spring and stabilizer bar plant in Mogi Mirim (BRAZIL).