On Tuesday morning the 18th of November a grand opening was held for a new competence centre for development of gear wheels at Glasgatan in Köping, Sweden. This venture is made possible by the participation of four industry companies, one of them is LEAX. The other three companies behind this project are Scania CV, Volvo Powertrain and Meritor HVS. The centre will be led by Mart Öhr at Swerea IVF which is a research- and investigation Institute. The grand opening consisted among others of speeches which were held by Thomas Karlsson from Scania Södertälje, Dana Dobrin from Volvo Powertrain in Köping, Dan Johansson from Meritor HVS in Lindesberg and Roger Berggren from LEAX. They inaugurated the centre toghether with help from Köping´s municipal commissioner Elisabeth Salomonsson as shown on the picture below.

 

 

 

 

Manufacturing of gear wheels in the Mälardalen region in Sweden is world leading and this is something that these four companies want to retain and even further develop and reinforce. The research will be made in collaboration with universities.

 

The three main tasks for the centre are:
- To offer the automotive industry education aimed for operators, technicians and experts within the area of drive line technology with focus on gear technology.
- To market the area of industrial engineering aimed for pupils at schools and universities.
- Initiate research projects which are strongly connected to drive line technology, especially to gear technology.