It is one of the largest passenger ships in the world. The Queen Mary 2 is 345 meters long and weighs over 150,000 metric tons. Around 15,000 FGR pipe couplings from NORMA Group are on board to help bring the colossus safely across the Atlantic – and make it 75 tons lighter.
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By replacing rubber in favor of thermoplastics, vehicles could become significantly lighter and more environmentally friendly. But there’s more – this is already becoming evident in new materials and manufacturing processes.
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An electric vehicle’s cooling systems have a major impact on the performance of a lithium-ion battery. A consistently high temperature is the most important factor for a battery’s long-term reliability in terms of its range, charging time and maintenance.
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It’s all about electromobility and the future of the combustion engine – at IAA 2017 in Frankfurt/Main, too. I spent a day looking at new models, learning about current trends and discovering many NORMA Group products.
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Will the combustion engine soon be discarded? How do carmakers deal with more and more components that they have to place in a vehicle? When do car computers take the wheel on the roads? Those are the trends in mobility.
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How does a charge air and an air intake system work? What are the differences? And how does this result in engine power? For this to work, you need heat, cold, the basic rules of physics and the answer to the question of how the perfect engine is built.
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How can we really bring down exhaust gas emissions? The automotive industry isn’t the only one searching for an answer to this question, but also car drivers, politicians and environmental groups. The technology for a clean diesel engine already exists. It only needs to be effectively put to use.
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