A world’s first in sustainable truck manufacturing
In another year of significant achievements for Scania, the company celebrated a true milestone when it became the world’s first heavy vehicle manufacturer to have produced a remanufactured gearbox on its main assembly line. This exciting project represents a huge advance in circular production, the truly sustainable concept of integrating remanufactured materials into new parts or products, instead of discarding them.
The ‘good-as-new’ remanufactured gearbox was the result of the iReGear research programme, involving Scania, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Scandinavian Transmission Service, with funding from the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova.
This historic project was a great success. The gearbox stood up as well as brand-new equivalents to the rigours of Scania’s gearbox testing regime, and the demonstration showed that by using reused parts, carbon emissions from production could be reduced by up to 45 percent.
