Filtration and separation technology specialist, FAUDI GmbH bagged the contract for the supply and installation of the complete filter technology to produce gasoline and diesel engine production by a well-known Southern German car manufacturer. This order brings the largest single order in the company's 80-year history, with a project volume of around € 15 million. A new high-tech engine plant in Javor, Poland, on an area of about 50 hectares has been invested by the car manufacturer, for around € 500 million.

The overall project scope includes several central plants with a total supply capacity of almost 55,000 litres per minute, as well as two storage facilities for the storage and intermediate storage of waste oil and for refilling with fresh oil. More than 160 machine tools (application: turning, drilling, milling of crankcases for diesel and gasoline engines, medium: oil) are supplied with oil by the company's filter systems with the help of an external pipeline. This pipeline with a length of approximately 3,000 m, has been particularly contoured and installed for the application.

Moreover, three FAUDI briquetting presses are installed for the processing of the valuable production residues, such as metal chips and oil. The metal shavings are briquetted, and the extracted oil is returned to the filtering cycle. Thus, the payback period is roughly one year due to the updating of the chips and the return of the oil.

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