Alfdex AB, a 50/50 joint venture between Alfa Laval and Concentric, today announce that they will expand its manufacturing unit in China during first half of 2019 to capture the demand driven by the Chinese action plan to improve the air quality, called the “Blue Sky Action Plan”.
The Chinese air quality plan covers many emission sources, where heavy trucks is one important subset. The China-6 regulation will be effective in China’s largest cities as of July 1, 2019 and this is expected to result in the replacement of one million heavy duty trucks.
The Alfdex-separator is the most widely used solution for active cleaning of crankcase gases in truck engines. It was launched in 2004 and has been selected by most truck manufactures in North America, Europe and Japan. During the last twelve months about 700,000 Alfdex-separator units have been sold. The expansion of the manufacturing unit in China means that the total capacity nearly double. Alfdex have also received its first orders in China whereof one is from Weichai, which is the largest engine manufacture in China who also manufactures trucks.
“The development in China is interesting from a business perspective and also very positive from an environmental point of view,” says Susanne Pahlén Åklundh, President of the Energy Division. “Alfdex have received the first order from Weichai, and from a couple of other customers. To that, there is a considerable general interest in the product.”
