Har­vester

In prod­uct devel­op­ment, design­ers of new har­vest­ing pro­to­types are work­ing to solve this chal­lenge. They know that cus­tomers want to reduce soil com­paction. One solu­tion is to use wider tyres with a larg­er con­tact area. The dis­ad­van­tage is that this does not result in a reduc­tion in weight. If a man­u­fac­tur­er of agri­cul­tur­al machin­ery wants to reduce the weight of his har­vesters, the use of elas­tomers and plas­tics is essen­tial. In addi­tion to weight reduc­tion, plas­tics also offer advan­tages in terms of dura­bil­i­ty and abra­sion resis­tance. Elas­tomers, on the oth­er hand, score points with their elas­tic­i­ty and good seal­ing and damp­ing properties.

In coop­er­a­tion with the lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­ers of har­vesters, we often car­ry out joint part devel­op­ments for har­vester pro­to­types. Thanks to our mate­ri­als exper­tise in the field of rub­ber and plas­tics and our many years of expe­ri­ence, chal­lenges in the pro­duc­tion of assem­blies and com­po­nents are over­come more quick­ly. Our own test bench­es for the pre­lim­i­nary inspec­tion of mate­ri­als and assem­blies reduce the time required for field tests. In this way, we active­ly sup­port design­ers in bring­ing inno­v­a­tive pro­to­types to series pro­duc­tion readi­ness more quickly.