hofer powertrain GmbH has again taken part on a recruiting day. This time at the university in Albstadt-Sigmaringen.

The 31st International Vienna Engine Symposium directed by the Prof. Lenz was all about optimization of the internal combustion engine and the hopes for fuel savings.

Despite the difficult status quo of the automotive branch the participation of hofer powertrain has been a success: all the three presentations held by hofer representatives attached interest of the specialist audience - so that the hofer exhibition stand was very well attended during the koffee breaks.

hofer opened a new facility in Bolzano, Italy, in what is another in a series of significant milestones for the company this year. The new research facility celebrated its opening June 1st, and houses a team of dedicated powertrain specialists. Establishing the new facility enables hofer to facilitate collaborative relationships with Italian suppliers and OEMs supporting them bringing innovative products to market. The new facility will maintain hofer’s cutting-edge research into powertrain development, and will focus especially on advanced driveline and transmission systems, zero-emission vehicles and hybrid powertrain.

For further information please contact:

Alberto Giacometti

mailto:a.giacometti@hofer.de

In the course of the 6th Braunschweiger Symposium „Hybrid Vehicles und Energy Management“ taking place annually in the Braunschweiger Stadthalle Dr. Heinz Schaefer, the CEO of hofer eds GmbH, has made a presentation on the topic  „Wheel – Hub Drives versus Axle Drives“.

Mr. Dragan Popov referred about “Downsizing” out of the view of hofer powertrain at the 3rd international CTI Forum “Turbocharging” in Wiesbaden (16th-17th of June 2008).

Chemnitz – hofer mechatronik GmbH opens a new location in Chemnitz on the 1st of April 2008.

From May 25th through May 27th 2010, the 6th „Ford Global NVH Conference“ took place in Dearborn, MI.

Regardless of the difficult time the automotive industry is experiencing nowadays the CTI Transmission Symposium 2008 in Berlin has been a very successful event for hofer powertrian.

The manager of the operational business of hofer powertain in Italy, Alberto Giacometti, held a presentation “The role and the share of suppliers for the development and innovation in the automotive business” at the annual conference of the Turin Industry Association.

At the conference “Innovations in Mechanical Engineering” Heinz Aitzetmueller presented the hofer-own product VDC Transmission (Variable Double Clutch).

The hofer development centre in Stuttgart will extend their testing area in 2009 by adding two powertrain- test benches. To be able to suit the needs and wishes of their customers, hofer will have two 440 kW powertrain test benches available in February 2009.

For sure you know how hard it is to judge the shift behaviour of a manual gearbox. Subjective impressions such as “bad”, “bumpy” or “unpleasant” can only help up to a certain limited degree of further development and optimisation.

In cooperation with Mediengruppe Kirk there was carried out a media project regarding the business location Bavaria. The hofer AG demonstrates its systems competence in this film: product development from the idea to the serial production, process development for production, logistics and quality management as well as development & construction of measuring and testing equipment. Due to  its  branch competence in the fields of passenger cars, trucks, motor-bikes and off-highway hofer is THE development partner for transmission systems.