Since 1965, our knowledge and experience grants us the opportunity to rapidly respond to market demands and provide a complete range adapted to current trends, enabled by our manufacturing capabilities in a new production factory, dedicated to towbars, in Ukraine, together with our existing plants in Turkey & South Africa.
Thanks to our in-house experts at the BOSAL Research & Development Centre in Lummen (BE), BOSAL can supply the global Aftermarket customer with a highly qualitive, competitive and reliable standard in aftermarket products. This standard ensures optimal safety and reliability of our solutions.
Our towbar & bicycle carrier history
- 1965: BOSAL starts the production of Aftermarket towbars in South-Africa
- 1985: Introduced the world’s first detachable towbar
- 2006: JV between BOSAL and Oris GmbH
- 2010: BOSAL is introducing the bicycle carrier range in the market
- 2012: 100% acquisition of Oris in 2012. Hereby BOSAL also acquired the complete knowledge of retractable and detachable towbars
- 2018: Towerbrook acquired the Oris division, acting as an independent company with a new brand.
- 2018: BOSAL is focusing on their core business of emission control systems and rebuilding the company. The towbar factories & R&D in South Africa and Turkey remain within the BOSAL group.
- 2020: Restart of the R&D towbar centre in Lummen
- 2021: First new towbar range and bicycle carriers in the market