At Freudenberg Anlagen- und Werkzeugtechnik GmbH’s factory, workpieces need only be mounted once on a System 3R reference system to send them speeding through all the machining processes concerned. This increases not only component precision, but also total production capacity.
In preparation for World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, a tunnel is now being built under the Yangtze River. The tunnel boring machines from Herrenknecht have seals from Merkel Freudenberg Fluidtechnik. Because the 3,500 kW output of the machines’ engines generates a torque of over 39,000 kNm, enormous loads have to be withstood by the 6 m diameter (!) seals on the shafts. However, the dimensions are not always so large. More than 80,000 different seals from Freudenberg work their magic in machines, vehicles and plants in all kinds of industries worldwide.
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