ContiTech on Board the Car of the Future
Innovations for sustainable mobility / Optimized materials enable for-ward-looking technologies / Complete materials spectrum and service from one supplier
(PresseBox) - The car of the future represents a huge challenge for automobile manufacturers due to demands for greater economy and better environmental compatibility and requirements for it to be more efficient and lower priced at the same time. Challenges, however, that can be mastered by consistently advancing technology and material. "As an experienced partner to the automotive industry, ContiTech AG is continually working on innovations for sustainable mobility, thus creating technological solutions enabling visions to become realities," says Heinz-Gerhard Wente of the ContiTech Executive Board in the runup to the 63rd International Motor Show (IAA). "As the world's largest specialist in the field of rubber and plastics technology, ContiTech with its products makes a significant contribution to the realization of clever ideas and forward-looking concepts for the next generation of vehicles."
This is made possible by the advanced development and optimization of the materials used. In this way, the range of applications for ContiTech products is expanded ever more, giving rise to technologies that improve both the life cycle assessment of the vehicle as well as the ride comfort.
With a new oil-resistant specification for timing belts, for example, belts can now be used instead of chains to drive oil pumps or camshaft timing as-semblies. The advantages for the environment: substantially lower CO2 emissions, since timing belts reduce a vehicle's fuel consumption due to lower friction - while also making them quieter. Another example: the belt-driven starter generator with special ContiTech high-performance V-ribbed belts reduces fuel consumption by as much as five to ten percent in city driving - ensuring less pollution emissions while waiting at traffic lights or in stop-and-go traffic during rush hours.
Lighter vehicles
Lightweight construction also plays a key role when it comes to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. With its innovative plastic transmission mount, ContiTech has introduced the use of much lighter load-bearing components to the automotive industry. When it comes to the environmental impact of production and recycling, the new transmission mount also has other ad-vantages: Since plastic can be shaped at temperatures lower than required for aluminum, for instance, the production process requires much less energy. There is also an increased range of recycling options. This is just one way in which ContiTech is advocating more eco-friendly and economi-cally efficient production at its nearly 80 sites throughout the world. In addi-tion, carefully trained employees, robot technology and highly-automated production ensure top quality products and significant cost benefits at the same time.
High-performance hoses for ecological efficiency
When it comes to the automobile's centerpiece - the engine - top quality plays a key role. The goal: less exhaust gas thanks to improved combus-tion. That is why developers are already working on the next generation of highly-charged engines which work at pressures exceeding 3 bar - and therefore need special hoses. New materials and innovative combinations of various knitted fabric and rubber materials can achieve performances conventional materials are simply incapable of.
ContiTech hoses and hose lines connect together like lifelines all the impor-tant assemblies and components in a vehicle, thereby creating the prere-quisite for a standard of mobility that is as ecological as it is high-performance. These contribute to reducing nitrogen oxide emissions, to safe transfer of new fuels based on renewable raw materials and to increasing the efficiency of air conditioning systems, which ultimately play a significant role in fuel consumption.
One single source
In the development of new ideas and technologies, ContiTech's engineers are able to draw on the know-how and experience in its other corporate divisions. For this reason, ContiTech is also the only automotive industry supplier in the world able to offer the entire materials spectrum, including elastomers, aluminum and stainless steel. This enables it to cater for all requirements without at the same time losing sight of the costs involved. For customers, this has the advantage that all parts can be purchased from a single supplier. There is just one contact person, starting with purchasing, through development of customized solutions and up to series production, making coordination of components much easier. Customers make use of this advantage and further involve ContiTech in the development of their solutions. So from the very start, the company is involved in the research, development and design - both parallel to and in cooperation with the cus-tomers - and plays a significant role in helping realize the future of the au-tomobile.
ContiTech AG, Hanover, is the world's no. 1 specialist for rubber and plastics tech-nology in the non-tire rubber sector. The company develops and produces func-tional parts, components and systems for the automotive industry and other important industries. The company has a workforce of around 21,000 employees. In 2008 it realized sales of about ?3 billion. ContiTech is a division of Continental AG. With sales exceeding ?24 billion in 2008, the Continental Corporation is one of the top automotive suppliers worldwide. As a supplier of brake systems, systems and components for the powertrain and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutions, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers, the corporation contributes towards enhanced driving safety and protection of the global climate. Continental is also a competent partner in networked automobile communication. The corporation currently employs approximately 130,000 at nearly 190 locations in 35 countries.
ContiTech AG, Hanover, is the world's no. 1 specialist for rubber and plastics tech-nology in the non-tire rubber sector. The company develops and produces func-tional parts, components and systems for the automotive industry and other important industries. The company has a workforce of around 21,000 employees. In 2008 it realized sales of about ?3 billion. ContiTech is a division of Continental AG. With sales exceeding ?24 billion in 2008, the Continental Corporation is one of the top automotive suppliers worldwide. As a supplier of brake systems, systems and components for the powertrain and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutions, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers, the corporation contributes towards enhanced driving safety and protection of the global climate. Continental is also a competent partner in networked automobile communication. The corporation currently employs approximately 130,000 at nearly 190 locations in 35 countries.
Datum: 22.09.2010 - 09:57 Uhr
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