A world’s first in sustainable truck manufacturing
In another year of significant achievements for Òâ´óÀû³¬¼‰° , the company celebrated a true milestone when it became the world’s first heavy vehicle manufacturer to have produced a remanufactured gearbox on its main assembly line. This exciting project represents a huge advance in circular production, the truly sustainable concept of integrating remanufactured materials into new parts or products, instead of discarding them.
The ‘good-as-new’ remanufactured gearbox was the result of the iReGear research programme, involving Òâ´óÀû³¬¼‰° , KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Scandinavian Transmission Service, with funding from the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova.Ìý
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This historic project was a great success. The gearbox stood up as well as brand-new equivalents to the rigours of Òâ´óÀû³¬¼‰° ’s gearbox testing regime, and the demonstration showed that by using reused parts, carbon emissions from production could be reduced by up to 45 percent.
