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The consortium partners of the Knowledge
Center include leading automotive companies of the region. As
being a traditional Hungarian company with long history of R&D
Rába Axle Manufacturing
and Trading Ltd.’s interest in the program is
obvious. Borsodi Műhely
Ltd. is a Hungarian owned SME with sound
development trends. Borsodi Ltd. contributes to the work of the
Center with their state-of-the-art cutting technology and
widespread subcontracting experience. Through their activities
beyond the traditional land craft orientation of the Knowledge
Center, a new dimension of the aircraft industry is added to our
research field. Within the framework of our cooperation the
Schefenacker Automotive
Parts Ungarn (SAPU) Lp, subsidiary of the German
Schefenacker-group, implements and develops new production
technologies. The improvements of the company mainly focus on
the research of car mirror covers as well as on painting
technologies of molded components.
Széchenyi István University
The leader of the consortium, Széchenyi István University is
involved in engineering, economic, law, nurse, social worker and
music teacher education. The university’s intellectual capacity,
the rate of lecturers disposing of scientific classification
makes the institution suitable for high-standard research and
development activities. As a result of the above, the university
is a dominant institution of the West-Transdanubian region,
outstandingly developed in the national comparison, and is
closely connected to the economy of Győr and its region, which
have the second strongest potential for income production after
Budapest. Its main majors rely on the electronic and vehicle
industry, which are remarkably strong in the region, moreover on
infrastructural development and operation and on the management
and international relations of the companies and public
institutions working in this field. The university’s
infrastructural facilities, supplemented by the planned
developments, are suitable for the educational and research
tasks on the long run.
Rába Axle Manufacturing and Trading Ltd.
As a traditional Hungarian large company, the interest of Rába Axle Manufacturing and Trading Ltd. In research and development is already obvious because of their existing traditions, which is justified by several innovation awards as well. The company employing some two thousand people is present on the world market in several significant product groups. The firm manufactures axles and their components, respectively, for medium-size and heavy trucks, buses and agricultural and power machines. The product scale includes the front, the rear, the driven and non-driven, the steered and non-steered and portal axles, their most important components, main units or head assemblies, the differential gears, their gears, the l-beams and the knuckles.
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As a Hungarian-owned, stably developing medium enterprise, Borsodi Műhely Ltd. Cooperate in technological development and applications in an efficient way based on their supplier experiences in high technology. Their main strength lies in high-level cutting technology, precision assembly and measurement. Their profile is constantly expanding and through their activities, the aircraft industry also appears as a target field in the work of the knowledge center.
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Based in Mosonszolnok, SAPU Lp. (a subsidiary of the German
Schefenacker Company Group) supplies internal and external
review mirrors to almost all considerable companies in the
automotive industry. Their largest customers are MERCEDES, OPEL,
AUDI, VW, Ford and BMW. Assembly technology has been developed
for 11 years at the firm and the large-series painting of
plastic covers for 2 years.
As a member of the consortium, they are involved in adapting and
further developing modern polymer shaping technologies. Within
the company group, SAPU set the aim of elaborating an
independent rearview mirror development basis.
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