Through more than 20 years of development, Oerlikon has acquired an excellent reliability and experience as proved by thousands of city buses plying on European roads.
With 25 years of experience in design and manufacturing of axles for public transportation, Oerlikon Graziano offers the widest range of portal axles for low-floor city-bus, with applications suitable for 8-9m midi-bus, 12m city-bus, 18m articulated city-bus and 12m trolley-bus.
The axles come with features like easy maintenance and serviceability through modular design of side gear case and unit wheel bearing; solutions available for “twin tire”, “super single tire” and “single tire” applications; side reduction with power split concept and fully ground gears, for longer endurance and low noise; and fully ground bevel set, with Gleason UMC technology, for low noise level.
The market leader in Italy and the No.2 worldwide, the company can supply a wide range of drive axle systems for city bus applications.
Oerlikon is one of the world’s most innovative industrial groups and is active in a variety of markets around the world – machine and plant engineering, solar technology, vacuum systems, textile machines, drive systems and nano industry – with 16,000 employees at 150 locations in 36 countries, developing solutions and synergies for leading industrial applications.
Oerlikon Graziano and Oerlikon Fairfield, part of the Oerlikon Drive Systems Business Group, are the leading worldwide provider of complete drive systems, gearing solutions and single components for transmissions. The product portfolio extends from transmissions for high performance cars, complete solutions for all-wheel-drive vehicles and agricultural tractors to Torque-Hub planetary drives and gear components.
Oerlikon Graziano is a global player in the power transmission field with more than 80 years of experience. Today, the company is focused on the major markets mainly in agricultural, construction, industrial and automotive. Through its global footprint – in America, Asia (China and India) and Europe (Italy, Russia and the UK) – its innovation, experience and high-tech solutions, the company is able to meet the customer needs by providing complete driveline systems as well as single gearing components.
It is also the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of synchronisers, hydraulic clutch modules and precision gears and shafts for applications within the agricultural, on/off-highway vehicles and industrial applications. Its position in the market is endorsed by the fact that 70 per cent of all agricultural tractors built worldwide today are totally reliant in its technology to change or synchronise transmission speed.
Off-highway drivelines
Oerlikon Graziano is a global player for manufacturing driveline systems for specific applications in the off-highway market and a leading supplier of heavy axles for construction equipment vehicles, premium tractors and low-floor city buses, as well as of powershift transmissions for forklift truck, ground support equipments, and in special transmissions for utility and agricultural tractors.
An internationally renowned supplier of precision components to all the main manufactures of agricultural tractors, construction equipment, trucks, commercial vehicles plus specialist automotive applications, the company has 10 manufacturing plants strategically located around the world to meet not only the needs of its global customers but satisfy the transmission needs of local markets.
With more than 80 years in the market of power transmission, Oerlikon Drive Systems is focused on automotive, off-highway and industrial key markets. Excellent manufacturing, engineering and innovative expertise have made it the market leader for high-tech transmission systems. The company offers to its customers a full “turnkey” service, with fully developed capabilities in advanced solutions, in particular the electronic and control areas.
It may also be noted that Oerlikon Drive Systems is the world’s largest and global manufacturer of custom gears and shafts, especially for agricultural, off-highway, industrial and power generation market. In addition it is also the world leader in the design, development and production of synchronisers and hydraulic clutches used within the agricultural and off-highway vehicle industry.