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EDITION 2/2017 E

REPORTS ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURING, MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRACTICAL APPLICA-
TIONS OF ENGINEERING SPRINGS AND ON THE SYSTEMS, MACHINERY AND TOOLING DIVISIONS OF THE SCHERDELGROUP

No plans for electric

car quotas

Gentle transition is more sustainable

he European Union has finally said ensure the shift to electromobility is not
Dear Reader,
T it has no plans to introduce the held back. A gentle transition to the
SCHERDEL can look back with sat- quotas for electric cars which many new technology therefore seems sub-
isfaction on its positive performance politicians in Europe had long been stantially more promising. Until then, a
in the past business year during
which we slightly surpassed our campaigning for. And that is a good main focus must also be on the further
sales and growth targets. In recent thing, since just like the automotive in- development and improvement of con-
months, very high increases in the dustry, all the suppliers embedded in ventional drive concepts which, particu-
price of certain materials and ex-
tremely long delivery periods have, the development chain, including larly in terms of environmental impact
however, proved to be a particular SCHERDEL, have known for a long and standards, need to have a more ef-
challenge. To ensure our capabilities time that any transition to electromobili- ficient design. SCHERDEL is therefore
remain at a high level in the future,
we also invested significantly in 2017 ty must be planned and structured intensively researching new materials
– for instance in the development of carefully. Since electromobility can only and process technologies to additional-
our second manufacturing location in become successful in the long term ly guarantee success in this sector. In-
China and in a joint-venture compa-
ny for market entry in India. For the when a fully functional recharging net- teresting examples here are compo-
production of technically high-grade work infrastructure and advanced bat- nents with ferromagnetic properties or MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES – LOCATIONS – TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – NEWS AND INFORMATION
integral joints, our Group has found tery concepts for more acceptable integral joints which are durable and
an excellent partner in HQM and es-
tablished a joint company with it: ranges between recharges have also practically maintenance free due to
HQM SCHERDEL GmbH. In the field been put in place for the end users. plastic injection. You can read more
of electromobility, SCHERDEL has However, significant investments, de- about this in the following articles of
also been able to acquire a number
of interesting orders and has met velopment performance and organisa- this edition of SCHERDELnews. (dk)
one customer’s demand regarding tional restructuring are still needed to
local production in Asia as part of a
project. Our Group will demonstrate
innovative strength and excellent
ideas to support all its customers
while managing this technology Photo: © Petair, fotolia
change in automotive production. At
the same time, we shall continue to
undertake a considerable amount of
development work for improving con-
ventional powertrain techniques, es-
pecially in terms of sustainability. We
can thus look forward with optimism
to an eventful new year.

Marcus Bach
Executive Shareholder of the
SCHERDELGroup
Development of a comprehensive recharging network infrastructure is essential for the introduction
of electromobility with corresponding acceptance from end users. 1