Pierburg has manufactured its 75 millionth exhaust-gas recirculating valve (EGR) in Spain’s Basque Country. Pierburg’s Spanish plant has turned out an average of around 5M units annually since 1994 for gasoline and diesel engines.
The job of the EGR valve is to regulate the re-routing of exhaust gases into the engine. Fueling the success of this emission-abating component have been the ever-stricter worldwide emission standards. The matching EGR valves have been further developed into a firm fixture of tomorrow’s engine generations. The newest EGR valve is of very compact, low-weight design and since 2013 has been used on series-production models of a major German OEM.
Says Javier Egurrola, in charge of the Basque Country Pierburg plant: “We’re proud to have set up a production record with our 75-millionth exhaust-gas recirculating valve. In the history of EGR valves, we have repeatedly responded to the rising quality demands of the marketplace and, in fact, we’ve grown in and through our efforts to address the rising requirements set by environmental codes and standards. To arrive at these figures and maintain the standards of quality we have, there are many influencing factors. The most important one however, from my point of view, are the people who designed and produced the valves and I would like to thank them.”
