Advanced technology under the hood
Nemak Wernigerode focuses on light and environmentally-friendly cast parts
Cylinder heads have got what it takes to be a high-tech product. Integrated exhaust manifolds and intelligent thermal systems help to develop engines to be smaller and more compact. The car of the future is reliant on this, according to Dr. Dietrich Kahn. The managing director of Nemak Wernigerode GmbH, located in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, declares that ultra-complex components are an international trend, helping to make vehicles lighter and more environmentally-friendly. Almost every second cylinder head from the aluminium foundry on the outskirts of the town in the Harz region combines the new properties within it. In two years, the proportion of the total production capacity should be increased to 70 percent.
Nemak is playing in the top division. Together with its customers, the largest independent aluminium foundry in Germany for cylinder heads is continuing to further develop products. An in-house research department ensures the technological progress, looking at how iron casting can be substituted for light metal in the best possible ways, among other things. “Our lead times are large. Our engineers today are already dealing with components which will be used in 2018,” reports Dr. Dietrich Kahn. In the meantime, processes can be simulated on the computer. This saves time. The company works particularly closely with the Volkswagen group. The components from Wernigerode are used in vehicles by Audi, Porsche and, of course, VW, among others.
Almost 90 percent of the 1.8 million cylinder heads produced each year and 600,000 chassis components go to this partner. VW awarded the Nemak Group, with its sites in Europe, the “Volkswagen Group Award” this year as one of its best suppliers. Chairman of VW, Martin Winterkorn said that the decisive criterion for the award was the company's pioneering technology and innovations with continuously high quality. One example of this is a particularly environmentally-friendly modern casting method. With the anorganic binding technology, which has been gradually implemented in Wernigerode since 2010, there is none of the usual smoke formation meaning harmful gases are no longer released into the environment.
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