BorgWarner: Remanufactured solutions
Published: 12 November, 2020
BorgWarner has been providing remanufactured products for more than 25 years. Compared with the production of new products, remanufacturing uses significantly less energy to produce each product. When considering the product life cycle, remanufacturing enables a single part to have more than one life and, in many instances multiple lives, which results in a considerable saving of raw materials.
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- Remanufacturing with BORG Automotive
When it comes to replacing car parts, many people consider two options: OE parts or the traditional aftermarket component. But there is a third option: Remanufacturing.
For more than 45 years, BORG Automotive has delivered remanufactured automotive parts for the European aftermarket. Today, the organisation remanufactures starters, alternators, brake calipers, AC compressors and EGR valves at its Polish production sites, and steering products – which include racks, pumps and electric columns – in the UK. In addition, the company has recently acquired the Spanish turbocharger company, TMI, which has added a ninth product group to the portfolio.
To remanufacture automotive parts, used products, namely cores, should be retrieved. BORG Automotive sells their remanufactured units with a deposit, which is returned to the customers if they send BORG the unit they are replacing.
The core BORG is getting in exchange for a remanufactured unit is sent to their core warehouse in Poland the largest core warehouse in Europe with more than one million units – ready for remanufacturing.
As a remanufacturer, BORG Automotive controls the entire remanufacturing process from parts and production to sales and service. This total control of every process gives BORG Automotive an advantage when it comes to quality control and testing. All units are individually tested according to BORG’s remanufacturing and factory standards and the production has been certified according to ISO standards 9001:2015 and 14001:2015.
The remanufacturing process is carefully executed, and thus needs special attention throughout the entire process. This is due to the advanced and challenging remanufacturing process, which each product demands.
Process
The remanufacturing process takes place in BORG’s own production sites in Poland and the UK and consists of six steps:
- AS-PL: New alternator
AS-PL has released a new alternator in its Standard Line under the AS brand. The product, designated A3341S, can be used in the Hyundai ix35, Kia Ceed, Kia Sportage and the Kia Venga. AS-PL offers more than 17,000 different products with a total of almost 250,000 reference numbers. A wide selection of original products is divided into three product lines: Economy, Standard and Premium. The offered products include parts and components for passenger cars, lorries and other markets.
- New starter in AS-PL offer
Another new product has enlarged the AS-PL offer; a starter designed for Hyundai and Kia applications. The starter, with the index number S9324S, is under the AS brand and belongs to the Standard line. The product can be used in Hyundai i30, Hyundai Kona, Hyundai Tucson, Hyundai Veloster, Kia Pro Cee’d, Kia Sportage. AS-PL Sp. z o.o. offers more than 15,000 different products with a total of almost 200,000 reference numbers. A wide selection of original products is divided into three product lines: Economy, Standard and Premium.
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- New alternator from AS-PL
AS-PL has introduced a new product – an alternator with the index number A3374S, which is a product of the AS brand. The new product belongs to the Standard line. The product can be used in Citroën AX, Citroën BX, Citroën C15 and Peugeot 205, Peugeot 309 and Peugeot 405. AS-PL Sp. z o.o. offers more than 15,000 different products with a total of almost 200,000 reference numbers. A wide selection of original products are divided into three product lines: Economy, Standard and Premium. The offered products include parts and components for passenger cars, lorries, agricultural machines, boats, motorcycles, and for the industrial market.
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- PCL extends warranty on couplings and tyre inflators
PCL is offering extended warranties on a number of its products. These include the digital handheld ACCURA MK4 and linear AIRFORCE MK4 products, where the warranty has been doubled from 12 months to two years. The company has also extended the warranty on its Vertex, XF-Euro and Airflow couplings lines, which all feature a distinctive blue silicone band.
