PMG-POLMETASA inaugurates new R&D and innovation center at AIC
To research sintered parts for use in automotive shock absorbers | 22/11/2012Bilbao, 22.11.2012 PMG-Polmetasa today inaugurated its new automotive-oriented R&D and innovation Center at AIC-Automotive Intelligence Center.
Briefly, the new Unit has been set up to increase the value PMG-Polmetsa offers its clients by concentrating and boosting the technical and human resources employed on the application of sintered parts in automotive shock absorbers.
Manning the new unit is a high-level team of engineers and technicians from Pulvimetalurgia specialized in shock absorbers and related areas. The Unit is equipped with cutting-edge test-bench and shock absorber equipment for product life-cycle and performance trials.
German group PMG for the automotive industry, making sintered components and the systems they are used in. The group, which employs 1,200 people worldwide, bills 200 million a year.
Based in Mondragón, in the Basque region of Spain, Polmetasa specializes in the production of sintered components for shock absorbers. In the last six years it has invested around 16 million on increasing capacity and productivity, including R&D. With a total workforce of 260, the firm bills 50 million.