BENTELER Automotive reduces emissions from gasoline engines through forged fuel rail

Paderborn, June 20th, 2018. BENTELER Automotive now also mass-produces forged fuel rails at its German plant in Warburg: The new fuel rails enable a higher injection pressure of over 350 bar compared to conventional, soldered fuel rails. This reduces emissions of gasoline engines, especially with regard to particulate emissions.

"With our forged fuel rail systems, we offer our customers a component that helps to make internal combustion engines cleaner", says Ralf Thiele, project lead of forged fuel rail systems, Business Unit Engine & Exhaust Systems at BENTELER Automotive.

The workpiece is inserted and fixed for processing in a corresponding device, the so-called cutting machine. This is completely controlled and monitored online. Another special feature: the system enables processing in just one clamping. This guarantees maximum precision and thus quality during the process. The entire production line is highly automated and interlinked, but allows it to produce "chaotic": so different variants of the fuel rail can be made parallel.

Now BENTELER Automotive starts series production in the Warburg plant. In total, the company will produce 2.5 million forged fuel rails worldwide for leading international automakers worldwide.