Major orders from premium OEM
Auto-industry supplier Rheinmetall Automotive AG
(PresseBox) - As a longstanding supplier to an internationally operating premium European OEM, Rheinmetall Automotive AG has now booked additional orders in various product segments with a total value of around ?200 million. Among these components, for which Rheinmetall is in some cases the sole supplier, there are gasoline- and diesel-engine pistons complete with piston rings sourced from alliance partner Riken for three-, four-, and six-cylinder engines as well as plain bearings, thrust washers, electric pumps, exhaust-gas recirculation and divert-air valves.
For series start-up in 2018, for the same supplier and once more with Riken rings, Rheinmetall Automotive is delivering aluminum pistons for a six-cylinder gasoline engine. Added to this are the pistons for a six-cylinder diesel engine due to go into series production next year and to be produced at
For a three-cylinder gasoline engine, Rheinmetall Automotive''s Chinese joint venture KSHP is the sole supplier of pistons worth a total of over ?30 million. Starting 2019 these are again fitted with Riken rings before being shipped out to the Chinese market.
Since 2015/16, Rheinmetall Automotive has been the sole supplier for all the four-cylinder engines of the OEM. The Czech plant at
Group-affiliate KS Gleitlager GmbH was recently awarded a contract by the automaker for components of a four-cylinder diesel unit. The affiliate will as from 2020 be supplying the main and connecting-rod bearings as well as thrust washers. The contract is worth over ?15 million and will run for six years as from 2020.
Mechatronic components for four- and six-cylinder engines
Internationally positioned group subsidiary Pierburg GmbH is another sole supplier to this premium-segment OEM. This year, divert-air valves worth a total ?7 million are going into production at the German Lower Rhine plant for installation in a six-cylinder gasoline engine. For the European market, another German Pierburg plant in Hartha has since last year been manufacturing recirculating-water pumps for a four-cylinder diesel. This contract is worth ?10 million. The Abadiano plant in Spain will be
The majority joint venture Pierburg Mikuni Pump Technology in China will launch series production this year of a recirculating-water pump with a lifetime sales volume of over ?5 million. The pump is destined for a four-cylinder gasoline engine for which Pierburg is already manufacturing in Germany and China divert-air valves worth over ?26 million.
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Datum: 25.04.2018 - 07:05 Uhr
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