Beru (company)
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- Brady Ericson (AR)
- Thorsten Seehars ( GF)
The BorgWarner BERU Systems GmbH (until December 2009: BERU AG) is an automotive supplier headquartered in Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. It belongs to a world market share of over 40% for diesel engine glow plugs into one of the world's leading suppliers. In addition, spark plugs, ignition coils, spark plug wire, auxiliary electric heaters and sensors are produced.
First time in 2006, the pressure sensor glow plug ( Pressure Sensor Glow Plug, PSG) was presented for diesel engines on the Automechanika trade fair. By means of the pressure sensor glow plug can be the burning process in a ( fully-populated in each ) Regulate the cylinder. By optimizing the combustion process helps the PSG technology to improve power delivery and at the same time already at its source emissions - to reduce - in the combustion chamber. BorgWarner supplies the first and only series manufacturer of pressure sensor glow plugs numerous car manufacturers such as Audi, Isuzu, Opel and VW. The PSG technology was first introduced in the U.S. version of the VW Jetta 2008. Early 2013, the three millionth pressure sensor glow plug (PSG ) was produced for diesel engines in Ludwigsburg. The stringent emission limits in the United States can be less than in combination with appropriate exhaust reduction systems using only the pressure sensor glow plug.
History
Beru was founded in 1912 by Friedrich Julius Behr and Albert Ruprecht as " auto- valves and BERU Kühlerfabrik Behr & Ruprecht, Ludwigsburg " with the corporate objective "production & distribution of technical specialties ." According rich was already beginning, the product range of Beru. On offer were among other things, spark plugs, radiator, hose clips and compression valves. In 1919, the word and trademark Beru the German patent office has been entered. Important steps of development were 1929, the development of the first glow plug for diesel cold start and 1931 the grant of a patent to the first two-pole glow plug with nested insulated against ground poles. In 1945 after the war, the resumption of production with first Daimler -Benz, Opel and NSU. The company founder Albert Ruprecht died 1959.
In 1978, the first quick-start glow plug was introduced and in 1992 was the launch slim five- millimeter - candles for direct injection diesel engine, 2000, the formation of the joint venture BERU_Eichenauer to the development of PTC auxiliary heating and the 2001 launch of the first electronically controlled diesel instant-start system (ISS ). In 2003 it took over the spark plug Division ( Eyquem ) from Johnson Controls in France.
Beru was listed as a public company since October 1997. In 2005, Beru was taken over by the U.S. company BorgWarner through the acquisition of a majority shareholding. Then in 2009 it was renamed the BorgWarner Beru Systems after the acquisition of 100 % of the capital and subsequent delisting ( delisting ) and the conversion into a limited company.
2011 sold BorgWarner tire pressure monitoring systems division to Huf Electronics.
2012 sold BorgWarner the spark division to the American company, Federal- Mogul.
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The company employs in the year 2010 world 2055 people and has a turnover of 365 million euros.