Higher Fuel Economy, Lower Emiions, Improved Safety, and Greater Driving Pleasure

Schaeffler as a Partner to the Automobile Industry Worldwide

Higher Fuel Economy, Lower Emissions, Improved Safety, and Greater Driving Pleasure

Schaeffler develops and manufactures precision products for everything that moves - in machines, equipment, and vehicles as well as in aviation and aerospace applications - with its INA, LuK, and FAG brands. The globally active group of companies is a leading manufacturer of bearings worldwide and a renowned supplier to the automotive industry. It is one of Europe's largest industrial companies in family ownership, with around 76,000 employees worldwide. The company generated sales of approximately 11.1 billion euros in 2012, of which two thirds came from the products sold by its automotive division.

Schaeffler's reputation in the automotive division is based on a wide range of innovative products: Solutions for the optimization of drive trains with internal combustion engines, hybrid components, and technologies for all-electric mobility. The product range includes wheel bearings, chassis, steering, and transmission components and developments, engine components, valve control systems, hybrid modules, and electric drives. Schaeffler innovations are helping to prepare the automobiles of today and tomorrow for the challenges of the future. Schaeffler is making a substantial contribution to the successes of modern automotive manufacturing, especially in terms of energy efficiency and therefore in minimizing fuel consumption and emissions.

As well as reducing fuel consumption and emissions, Schaeffler's innovations make an important contribution to increasing safety and driving pleasure. Above all, this involves chassis, steering and transmission components.

As a reliable engineering partner, Schaeffler makes a convincing case for its customers with its outstanding innovative ability, manufacturing expertise, customer proximity, and direct availability worldwide. The permanent focus on the highest-possible quality and the ability to react quickly to individual requirements are among the acknowledged advantages the company offers.

Schaeffler's innovative force has a long tradition: The portfolio of products created using Schaeffler's expertise includes the UniAir fully-variable electrohydraulic valvetrain system, hydraulic and electromechanical camshaft phasing systems, belt drive systems and overrunning alternator pulleys, lightweight balancer shafts, solutions for torsional vibrations, clutches, dampers, dual mass flywheels (with and without centrifugal pendulum-type absorbers), basic components for manual, CVT, and automatic transmissions, double clutch systems and their mechatronic actuators, lightweight differentials with face splines, TwinTandem bearings and wheel bearings with face splines, and components for hybrid vehicles and electric mobility - all of which prove this in impressive fashion.

Elements and systems from Schaeffler's various brands (LuK, INA, FAG) can be found in the vehicles of almost all manufacturers, whether in Europe, in Asia-Pacific, or in North or South America. On average, every car worldwide contains around 60 components from Schaeffler.

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