Tupy’s Maua manufacturing plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has won a new contract to supply compact graphite iron (CGI) engine blocks to MAN Nutzfahrzeuge.
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The contract calls for the supply of 20,000 6-cyllinder 10.5 litre engines for a 5-year period and that volume may increase in the future.
Deliveries are due to commence in July 2007.
Tupy also produces components using CGI technology at its Joinville plant, also in Brazil, but this plant focuses on smaller engine blocks for passenger cars. Customers include Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Jaguar, Audi and Land Rover.
“The agreement with MAN confirms our company’s technical competence and consolidates our world-wide leadership in CGI engine blocks and heads”, said Tupy’s CEO Luiz Tarquínio. “We have supported CGI part development programs both in Europe and in the United States and Mexico, and, with that, we hope to guarantee new production request orders for our manufacturing plants in Mauá and Joinville.”
Tupy produces around 65% of global demand for CGI engine blocks and cylinder heads, according to Autodata.
