Annual Report 2012 - Knorr-Bremse AG.
Annual Report 2012 - Knorr-Bremse AG.
Annual Report 2012 - Knorr-Bremse AG.
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<strong>Report</strong><br />
Market successes // Commercial vehicle systems<br />
In the case of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> was awarded preferred supplier status<br />
for braking systems for light and medium-heavy trucks, as well as for parking brake valves for heavy<br />
trucks. In the future, the company is also to supply viscous torsional vibration dampers and air pressure<br />
sensors for the full Daimler India Commercial Vehicles model range.<br />
Disc brakes for Yutong buses in China from <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong><br />
In the year under review, <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> succeeded in further strengthening its position with Chinese<br />
bus manufacturer Yutong. With an annual output of around 47,000 vehicles, Yutong is one of the<br />
world’s largest bus builders. In <strong>2012</strong>, <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> once again supplied the company with a large<br />
number of pneumatically activated 22.5-inch disc brakes. The brakes are mainly destined for Yutong<br />
buses over 10 meters long. In the year under review, <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> increased its share of the 22.5-inch<br />
disc brakes supplied to Yutong to approximately 80%.<br />
The brakes are manufactured on a newly commissioned production line at the <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> plant in<br />
Dalian. The new line was developed with support from the lead plant for disc brakes in Aldersbach,<br />
Germany, thereby ensuring that the same high standard of quality can be assured for these disc<br />
brakes as throughout the world of <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong>.<br />
<strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> supplies systems for Foton’s H4 Platform<br />
After providing an extensive range of components for the H3 generation of trucks from Chinese manufacturer<br />
Foton, <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> was able to further strengthen its links with the customer in the year<br />
under review. In February <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> commenced shipments of pedal units, power clutches and<br />
handbrake valves for Foton’s new H4 platform, the Auman GTL Heavy Truck. <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> is the exclusive<br />
supplier of pedal units and handbrake valves for the H4 platform.<br />
Foton is building the new heavy truck series for customers in Europe and the Americas. The engines<br />
have relatively low fuel consumption and are compliant with the Euro IV and Euro V standards.<br />
The <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> components are produced locally in China at the <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> plant in Dalian. For<br />
the start of production of the H4 platform, <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> supplied 2,500 units of each product. When<br />
production has been ramped up to full speed in 2013, the company will be supplying approximately<br />
4,500 units a year.<br />
Starting with the H4 platform, local assembly operations were joined by the increasingly localized<br />
procurement of components. In this way <strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong> has laid the foundation for the industrialization<br />
of additional product variants in China, which will enable the company to cover an even wider<br />
market for high-quality components.<br />
PBS is successfully tested in China<br />
<strong>Knorr</strong>-<strong>Bremse</strong>’s Pneumatic Booster System (PBS), for which a worldwide patent application has been<br />
filed, solves the problem of so-called turbo-lag in commercial vehicle diesel engines during drive-off,<br />
overtaking and on uphill gradients. PBS boosts performance and enables down-speeding and engine-downsizing<br />
– which can cut fuel consumption.<br />
Parallel to PBS being rolled out as standard equipment in Europe, it was also subjected to successful<br />
system testing and extensive road testing by various Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturers. The<br />
verdict was that markets in the Far East can also expect to see a significant improvement in performance<br />
and a cut in fuel consumption from using PBS.