Eaton maketh MAN
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• Eaton and MAN have agreed to share manufacturing of the range of single-reduction drive axles which the two companies have jointly developed.
At the NEC last week, the manufacturing agreement was signed by Wilfried Lochte, chairman of the executive board of MAN, Klaus Schubert, MAN's technical director, and John Rodewig, vicepresident of Eaton Truck Components, Europe.
The agreement covers three axles, with design capacities of nine, 11 and 13tonnes, suitable for trucks with gross weights of 22, 34 and 44-tonnes.
The first truck to use one of the new Eaton/MAN axles will be MAN's F90. From early next year MAN's current hub-reduction axles in the F90 will be replaced by 1344 and 1134 hypoid axles from the new range.
Assembly of the new axles will be shared between Eaton and MAN, but all the axle housings and precision forged components will come from Eaton's Pamplona plant in Spain.
According to Lochte MAN's demand for the axles could reach 15,000 units a year.