Wacker Neuson Labels Particularly Environmentally Safe and Efficient Product Solutions with the ECO Seal

 

Environmental protection and efficiency are more than just empty phrases for Wacker Neuson. In addition to the Group's participation in the VDMA Initiative Blue Competence, Wacker Neuson gives distinction to particularly efficient and ecological products with the new ECO seal – ECO for ECOlogy and ECOnomy. The topic of efficiency will also be in the focus of the company's exhibition at Bauma. 

"As a company we have the responsibility to preserve our environment and resources. At the same time, increasingly more customers pay attention to efficiency and environmental safety of the products in use", says Cem Peksaglam, CEO of Wacker Neuson SE. "By introducing the ECO seal, Wacker Neuson wants to draw attention to products and solutions that, especially in terms of efficiency and environmental protection, demonstrate how the two requirements can be perfectly balanced and how they yield a real benefit for the customer."

Wacker Neuson assigns its own ECO seal to proven product solutions and entirely new ones, which will be introduced at Bauma and are particularly low in emissions as well as efficient. Alternative drive concepts are a highlight of the fair appearance. The new Wacker Neuson mini excavator 803 with dual power will be introduced for the first time at Bauma. The excavator has a dual drive, which means that the electro-hydraulic drive can be connected and operated by simple "plug and play" as an alternative to the diesel engine. This way the excavator can be operated completely free from emissions, for example during demolition applications in closed spaces. At the same time and in conventional operations with the diesel engine no compromises are accepted, the mini excavator keeps its full performance capacity. The new dual drive is planned as an option for the Wacker Neuson excavators 803, 1404 and EZ17 – strong candidates for the Wacker Neuson ECO seal.

"Energy efficiency, environmental protection, and progressive thinking are essential parameters in the development work at Wacker Neuson", says Martin Lehner, CTO Wacker Neuson SE and responsible for purchasing, production, technology and quality. "The fact that these issues have been on the agenda for a long time at Wacker Neuson is confirmed by some of our proven solutions."

The WM 80 engine, specially developed by Wacker Neuson for example, is below all current emission thresholds and any limits known to apply in the future by a wide margin. Two-cycle rammers and gasoline demolition breakers are equipped with the WM 80 that stands out for its low consumption, excellent starting behavior, high-quality and long service live of engine components, as well as its suitability for use in any situation. The two-cycle rammer of Wacker Neuson is the gasoline rammer with the lowest total emissions in the market: The HC emissions are comparably low at 25 g/kWH per machine, the CO emissions are at about 70 g/kWh. This way the customers have the certainty on the present day already to be working with a future-oriented system and at the same time to be protecting the operator from the emissions. For this reason as well there is the ECO seal!

Additional exemplary models with the ECO factor exhibited at the Bauma are the electric breakers EH 75 and EH 100. The EH 100 comes close to comparable pneumatic breakers with compressors by virtue of its demolition performance at 100 joule in single stroke impact energy, and is a clearly more efficient and environmentally safer alternative. The facts speak for the EH 100: CO2 savings of up to 1.2 tons and fuel costs lowered by up to 5500 euro can be achieved during the machine's operational life. Operators profit from the low weight and the simple handling because no air hoses get in the way. Its great flexibility in applications is what lets the breaker stand out. An additional ECO innovation by Wacker Neuson is its worldwide strongest vibratory plate DPU 130. It withstands the comparison with a 7-ton roller, but it is obviously superior to the roller in fuel consumption and transport weight at its own barely 1.2 tons. Also the proven superstructure tilt "Vertical Digging System" (VDS) in the compact excavators of Wacker Neuson has the predicate for the ECO seal: with VDS inclines and declines of up to 27 percent can be compensated. Therefore, up to 25 percent can be saved in time and material.

How important the topic of sustainability is to Wacker Neuson is also reflected by its commitment in the VDMA Blue Competence Initiative, which was launched in the fall of 2012. The core of this campaign is that mechanical and plant engineering can implement ecological, social and economic goals by sustainable engineering.

Martin Lehner, CTO Wacker Neuson SE explains. "Wacker Neuson is preparing for the challenges of the future and is today already working on the solutions for tomorrow. Solutions that deserve the ECO seal."