* USA - BorgWarner Sues Cummins Over Patents on Titanium TurboChargers
Auburn Hills,MICH,USA --Bloomberg, by Susan Decker -Oct 26, 2011: -- BorgWarner Inc., the world’s biggest maker of automatic-transmission parts for vehicles, filed a lawsuit accusing Cummins Inc. of infringing three patents for a titanium wheel used in engine turbochargers... BorgWarner said it has “made considerable investments in improving turbocharger technologies,” and Cummins is using the inventions “with reckless disregard” of BorgWarner’s rights, according to the complaint filed today in federal court in Asheville, North Carolina... Turbochargers are used to improve the power and efficiency of smaller engines, and governments are pushing automakers to increase fuel economy in vehicles...
* China - Cummins' 2nd largest technical center built in
Wuhan,Hubei,China -Xinhua -Oct. 19 2011: -- U.S. diesel giant Cummins Inc. said it has completed expansion of a technical center in central China, making it the firm's largest engine development and research facility outside Columbus, Indiana... The Cummins East Asia Technical Center, based in Wuhan, Hubei province, cost 61 million U.S. dollars, with the expansion project worth 33 million U.S. dollars, the company said... It will boost development of engines sized from 2.8 liters to 19 liters, or almost the full range of Cummins products built in China, it said...
* USA / Indiana - Cummins Posts Higher 3Q Profit, Trims 2011 Outlook
Columbus,IND,USA -Transport Topics -25 Oct 2011: -- Cummins Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit rose 60% from a year ago, but the engine maker trimmed its full-year revenue outlook due to “uncertainty around the macro-economic environment” ... Third-quarter net income climbed to $452 million, or $2.35 a share, from $283 million, or $1.44, a year ago. Sales for the quarter ended Sept. 25 rose 36% to $4.6 billion... Cummins lowered its full-year sales forecast to $17.5 billion to $18 billion, down from a previously projected $18 billion...
* China - Ricardo to assist China’s JAC with advanced diesel engine
Hefei,Anhui,China -Metal Supply, by Charlotte Stubben -October 27, 2011: -- Ricardo and JAC have signed a contract that will see the two companies work together in the development of a new 2.0 litre turbo-diesel for JAC’s expanding product range... Under the terms of the deal, Ricardo engineers based both at Ricardo Shanghai as well as the company’s UK technical centres, will work with their counterparts at JAC to develop the new 2.0 litre turbocharged and intercooled diesel engine... The new product is aimed at meeting robustly the requirements of Euro 5 emissions regulations, reflecting the importance of emissions compliance in Chinese and international markets. The engineering team will also aim to ensure that the new engine delivers the highly competitive performance, packaging, refinement and durability targets established for application in JAC’s future vehicle range... Labels: engine makers
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