ZF Friedrichshafen AG is a worlwide leading supplier for automotive drive-technologies. About 70.000 employees in 27 countries expect to ship 15 billion Euro in 2011.

Since 2007 ZF awards the best of the best suppliers of the group worldwide. „They are essential participants of a perfectly operating supply-chain and of immense importance to us as immediate  interface to the OEMs “, says Dr. Stefan Sommer, member of the ZF  board.

On November 22, 2011, ZF awarded six companies, among them Magnet-Schultz Memmingen, Specialist for electromagnetic Actuators and Sensors (MSM), currently employing 2.000 in Europe and the USA. Within 10 years MSM have shipped umpteen ten million proportional valves at less than 3 ppm failure rate for the electro-hydraulic control of ZF “worldclass” automatic transmissions.