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Miba Sinter Group

Contents

Materials to Precision

3

Our Team

5

Operational Excellence

7

Global Network

9

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Engine

11

Transmission

13

Body & Chassis

15

Technological Expertise

17

Contacts

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Materials to Precision

3

The international automotive industry is facing continuously

growing

challenges.

Shorter

development times, increasing price pressure and new environmental guidelines are the forces driving this dynamic market environment. The Miba Sinter Group, as technology market leader in powder metallurgy

applications,

works

closely

with

customers to meet these challenges. Thanks to our global presence, years of experience and ongoing technological progress, we can guarantee our clients customized and cost-effective solutions. Miba sintered components are high-precision, highstrength parts produced using special process technology. They are used in engines, transmissions, steering systems, brakes, exhaust systems and shock absorbers in cars. Our vision: No powertrain without Miba technology.

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Our Team

5

Miba Group’s corporate values, namely technological

leadership,

passion

for

success,

entrepreneurship and lifelong-learning, are the keys to our success. Dedicated,

highly-trained

staff

and

high-tech

systems are the pillars of our performance. It is our team’s wealth of experience that guarantees operational excellence in the production of sintered components. Employees receive extensive training and staff development opportunities to ensure ongoing improvements in quality and long-term growth.

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Operational Excellence

7

Compared with other production processes, sinter technology allows maximum material utilization with the lowest possible energy use. By ensuring that our technology steadily improves, Miba Sinter Group is able to produce high-end components for the vehicles of tomorrow. At the start of the production process, metallic powder

mixes

are

compressed

using

highly

complex tools. The compacted part is sintered at a temperature of up to 1350 °C. To ensure the greatest possible precision, the component is sized and, if necessary, undergoes heat treatment, surface coating, mechanical processing, joining or assembly steps. Our success lies in our rigorous quality standards during the production of high-precision sintered components. A process-oriented, integrated management system ensures ongoing improvement of all processes, both in production and organization.

I Miba Sinter Group Production Sites

Deutschland Italia Sinter Austria Sinter Slovakia

Miba Precision Components

Miba Miba Miba Miba

Miba France

Mahle Metal Leve Miba Sinterizados

Miba Sinter USA

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I Miba Sinter Group Sales & Engineering Offices

Global Network

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We accompany our customers as they expand globally, providing support via our products and services. Five production sites and a sales and R&D network covering three continents allow us to respond quickly and flexibly to customers’ needs. Our customers benefit from our global approach and local presence. Our employees at all our sites share the same performance and quality values. This guarantees unified high-quality standards and outstanding customer service. We offer our customers tailored and efficient solutions. Our comprehensive global research and development, production and logistics network enables us to meet the challenges of our customers.

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Engine

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Creating successful P/M design solutions for engine components is all about developing in-depth understanding of the applications in question. At Miba, for over 35 years we've been building an impressive

knowledge

base

in

engine

drive

technologies, in particular in the following areas: I Gears and gear modules for timing drives and mass balancer systems for combustion engines I Components for variable camshaft phasing systems I Functional testing and validation testing, both in-house and in co-operation with partners I New technologies with economical production costs I Improvement in functionality by, for example, reducing noise of chain drive systems and minimizing friction loss

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Transmission

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Transmission manufacturers around the world rely on Miba Sinter Group’s long lasting experience with high-quality and high-performance P/M components for

manual,

double

clutch,

and

automatic

transmissions as well as for all-wheel-drive transfer cases. Miba Sinter Group’s product portfolio for transmissions includes synchronizer hubs, synchronizer rings, friction rings, dog rings, fully assembled synchronizer modules and various components for allwheel-drive applications. Our technologies for transmission components feature: I Innovative materials and processes for highstrength applications I In-house competence for synchronizer design, friction materials and validation testing I Net-shape forming I Operational excellence due to dedicated production lines I Functional testing and strength testing of synchronization modules and components

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Body & Chassis

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Miba Sinter Group produces a wide variety of body & chassis components. The product range includes steering system parts, components for exhaust and brake systems, shock absorbers and special industrial components. By crossing boundaries, we develop future-oriented technologies, such as helical-toothed belt pulleys for electrical steering systems. Body & chassis components are produced at all Miba Sinter Group sites.

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Technological Expertise

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The main focus of Miba Sinter Group’s R&D team is

reliability of our surface densification process for

to support our customers with the most cost-

gears - Densgrad® - is proven every day in millions

effective

of vehicles.

and

innovative

solutions.

We

offer

engineering support for design of applications as well as materials and processing development for

Using our Denscal® process we successfully

challenging P/M technology components.

launched the first series production P/M dog ring with a density of > 7.4g/cm3.

Using FEM tools for component design and process simulation, we provide engineered solutions with

Our Denscomp® process makes it possible to eco-

maximum performance. Our engineering expertise

nomically produce complex and high-precision high-

enables

modules

strength sintered components and enables us to

(e.g. synchronizer modules). To approve the per-

achieve densities up to 7.4g/cm3 using single

formance of our developed solutions we operate

press/single-sinter technology.

us

to

develop

complete

engine and transmission test equipment for highprecision on-site functional testing of components and

Our strategy is to offer customers optimum solu-

modules.

tions by drawing on in-depth know-how in core processes. Due to our extensive network of deve-

As technology leader we are developing new

lopment partners, we are constantly adding to and

processes with outstanding characteristics. The

complementing that know-how.

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Contacts

Production:

Sales:

Austria Miba Sinter Austria GmbH Dr.-Mitterbauer-Str. 1 4655 Vorchdorf, Austria T +43/76 14/65 41-0, F +43/76 14/73 19 [email protected]

Germany Miba Deutschland GmbH Office Wolfsburg Marktstraße 5-6 38442 Wolfsburg, Germany T +49/53 62/94 86-11, F +49/53 62/94 86-12 [email protected]

Slovakia Miba Sinter Slovakia s.r.o. Nábrezˇie Oravy 2222 02601 Dolny´ Kubín, Slovakia T +421/43/58 64-73 0, F +421/43/58 64-73 2 [email protected] China Miba Precision Components (China) Co., Ltd. No. 530 Xing Long Str., Suzhou Industrial Park Suzhou 215024, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China T +86/512/62 85-09 00, F +86/512/62 85-09 90 [email protected] USA Miba Sinter USA LLC North State Route 60 43756 McConnelsville, Ohio, USA T +1/740/962-42 42, F +1/740/962-53 99 [email protected] Brazil Mahle Metal Leve Miba Sinterizados Ltda. Indaiatuba – SP Rodovia Santos Dumont, km 57,2 13330-970, Brazil T +55/19/38 34-99 02, F +55/19/38 34-99 11 [email protected]

Miba Deutschland GmbH Office Stuttgart Max-Eyth-Straße 18 70736 Fellbach, Germany T +49/711/50 53-07 12, F +49/711/50 53-07 21 [email protected] France Miba France SARL 9, Route du Colonel Marcel Moraine 92360 Meudon la Fôret, France T +33/1/40 94-16 00, F +33/1/40 94-18 18 [email protected] Italy Miba Italia s.r.l. Piazza San Pietro 2 12084 Mondovì (Cn), Italy T +39/01 74/33 06 16, F +39/01 74/56 44 98 [email protected] USA Miba Sinter USA LLC 6625 Cobb Drive 48312 Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA T +1/586/939 06 20-315, F +1/586/939 01 61 [email protected]

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Miba Sinter Group • Miba Sinter Holding GmbH & Co. KG Dr.-Mitterbauer-Str. 3 4663 Laakirchen, Austria T +43/76 13/25 41-0 F +43/76 13/25 41-33 11 [email protected] www.miba.com