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2010/08/19 Range Rover: Birthday Child with new Transmission Technology
On June 17, 2010, the Range Rover celebrated its fortieth anniversary by presenting the 2011 Model Year Range Rover with 4.4 liter V8 turbodiesel engine. The new flagship vehicle is equipped with a ZF 8-speed automatic transmission which perfectly transmits the TDV8's high torque of 700 Nm with smooth responsiveness for quick gear changes and better fuel efficiency ...more
2010/07/28 ZF Road Test 2010 has a Winner: the Land Rover Freelander
ZF's second road test has a clear winner: With an overall grade of 1.96, the Land Rover Freelander prevails against 23 competitors from the compact SUV category. In the benchmark test organized by ZF Friedrichshafen AG and AUTO TEST, the monthly buyers' guide in the German Car Magazine Auto Bild, 30,000 car enthusiasts chose their ten favorites from 24 models. They were put to the acid test by ten randomly chosen participants in the survey. AUTO TEST readers can win the best vehicle in a competi ...more
2010/07/16 Excellent Production Support
Axle systems for Land Rover and Jaguar are produced just-in-time and just-in-sequence at the ZF location in Solihull. For such demanding production processes, all skills at the location must be intricately planned and seamlessly integrated. The result of this is that the achievements of the ZF Car Chassis Technology division location have been recognized with two renowned British "Manufacturing Excellence Awards". The jury awarded ZF for its outstanding logistics performance and efficient use of ...more
2010/07/15 ZF Human Resources VP Thomas Sigi joins Audi
Human Resources Executive Vice President Thomas Sigi will be leaving ZF Group after serving in an executive role for approximately one year. At the request of ZF client Audi, Sigi will resume working for Volkswagen Group as of October 1, 2010. “It isn’t an entirely easy step for me to take, as I would have liked to pursue further a number of processes I initiated at ZF,” commented Sigi. “On the other hand, it is a enormous challenge, pleasure and honor for me to be called back to Ingolstadt.” ...more
2010/07/13 Dr. Stefan Sommer New Executive Vice President For Materials Management At ZF
Effective October 2010, Dr. Stefan Sommer will be the new Executive Vice President for Materials Management at ZF Friedrichshafen AG, starting initially as representative Executive Vice President. This is what the Supervisory Board decided on Tuesday. At present, the 47-year-old is in charge of the Suspension Division at ZF's subsidiary ZF Sachs. ...more
2010/07/09
This press release is only available in German. ...more
2010/07/02 ZF Race Camp: practical experience for the race track
The ZF Race Camp at the exhibition grounds is now underway. The motor racing event – held just a short distance from the ZF Research and Development Center - is used by the participating teams as a test run for the Formula Student competition at Hockenheim in August. In a new departure, two student teams are entering electric-powered racing cars in this year’s race in Friedrichshafen. ...more
2010/07/01 ZF Receives Innovation Award in China
Shanghai Oriental Automobile Magazine, the Chinese specialist publisher, honored ZF Friedrichshafen AG with an award for its innovative and cost-effective automatic transmission systems. The "Auto Parts Technological Innovation & Progress Award" acknowledges technological innovations of the Chinese automotive industry. ...more
2010/06/17 ZF Signs Contract to Supply Wind Turbine Gear Boxes
ZF has signed a contract with global wind energy market leader Vestas to supply wind turbine gear boxes. Production is scheduled to begin in early 2012 at a new U.S. facility under construction in Gainesville, Ga., with the goal of eventually producing 2,000 gear boxes per year for the growing wind power industry. ...more
2010/06/10 ZF and Chrysler Reach Agreement for new 8-Speed Automatic Transmissions
ZF and Chrysler Group LLC have reached a supply and license agreement for ZF's 8HP 8-speed automatic transmission. Chrysler Group is licensed to produce the 8HP at the company’s Indiana Transmission Plant I and the Kokomo casting plant, starting in 2013. ...more
2010/06/09 ZF opens new administration building and R&D center in Shanghai
In its latest response to the growing importance of the Asia Pacific region, ZF is opening a new administrative building and a research and development center in Shanghai, China. The automotive industry supplier has invested approximately 20 million euros in the building complex, where some 250 ZF employees will initially be working. In five years, this figure will rise to roughly 500. ...more
2010/05/12 "ZF hilft" Donates EUR 300,000 for Small-Scale Farmers in Haiti
The devastating earthquake in Haiti at the beginning of this year gave charity organization "ZF hilft" reason to select a relief project in the Caribbean state ...more
2010/05/12 ZF Develops Transmissions for Foton, the Chinese Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer
Since September 2008, a strategic collaboration has developed between ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd. In December 2009, Foton, one of the leading Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturers, distinguished ZF as "Best Supplier of 2009". ...more
2010/04/14 ZF back on growth track after crisis
ZF Group wants to dramatically raise sales and earnings in the current year. After a 25-percent drop in sales to just under 9.4 billion euros and an operational loss of 361 million euros in the previous fiscal year, the auto supplier anticipates sales growth for 2010 of around 10 percent. ZF’s primary goals are to surpass the break-even point in its business operations and to maintain its core workforce in Germany despite uncertain market conditions. ...more
2010/04/14 Strong sales growth for ZF in first quarter of 2010
ZF began the year with strong sales growth in the first quarter of 2010. Sales figures were up 34 percent company-wide compared to the first three months of the crisis year of 2009. ZF experienced its strongest sales growth in the Asia-Pacific and South America regions, with 67 and 75 percent rises respectively. Of course, sales were particularly low in the first quarter of 2009 at the height of the financial and economic crisis. A corresponding growth rate for the rest of 2010 cannot therefore ...more
2010/03/26 ZF names Dr. Konstantin Sauer as new CFO
ZF Group has appointed Dr. Konstantin Sauer as its new Executive Vice President responsible for Finance, Controlling and Information Technology. Sauer will assume his new post on May 1 2010, thus replacing Willi Berchtold, who has agreed to continue to serve ZF Friedrichshafen in an advisory capacity until the end of September 2010. ...more
2010/03/02 ZF enters joint venture with Hero Motors Ltd. of India
ZF and Hero Motors Ltd. today signed a contract establishing the joint-venture enterprise ZF Hero Chassis Systems, securing access for ZF to India’s booming market for small cars. The automotive industry supplier is acquiring fifty percent of Hero Chassis Systems including two assembly plants in Halol, around 300 miles north of Mumbai, and in Talegaon, near Pune. Initially, some 100 employees will be engaged in the assembly of car axles for General Motors. ...more
2010/03/01 ZF is Entering the Market for Telematics Solutions in a Strategic Alliance with Intel
ZF uses its expertise in the networking of components in the driveline to embark on a new business model: Under a strategic alliance with Intel, ZF will create a hardware and software platform which is available for telematics applications. The platform called "Openmatics" can be used for example in citybusses from all manufacturers. The system, made up of an on-board unit for the vehicles and a web-based software portal for evaluation purposes, will probably be available as from 2011. ...more
2010/02/26 First Place for ZF Logistics
ZF scores high in the logistics competition mounted by the Association of the Automobile Industry (VDA). The project “High-performance logistics in the heavy commercial vehicle transmission sector” has won ZF Friedrichshafen AG in Leipzig the “VDA Logistics Award 2010”. ZF is the third company to win the prestigious award after Webasto and Robert Bosch GmbH. ...more
2010/01/19 ZF commissions new plant in India
ZF is strengthening its role in India’s booming economy. The automotive industry supplier has now opened an assembly plant in the industrial center of Pune, which will eventually turn out approximately 10,000 construction vehicle axles and transmissions annually. A further ZF assembly plant in Pune is currently being constructed, which will begin assembling truck transmissions in summer 2010. ...more
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2009/12/18 Motoring Press Guide as ePaper
Since 2008, ZF is partner of the Kroll publishing house for the Motorpresse paperback. For the very first time, the current 2009/2010 edition is also accessible as an ePaper via the Internet. Thus, access was enabled for the most important contacts of the automotive industry worldwide for 24/7. ...more
2009/12/15 ZF utilizes the crisis year for restructuring
After years of growth, ZF reported sales of €9.3 billion during the crisis year of 2009 – a quarter less than the previous year (2008: €12.5 billion). Due to fluctuations and structural adjustments, primarily abroad, by the end of 2009 the number of ZF employees worldwide had declined by nearly 3,400, or roughly 5 percent, to 59,900. In 2010 ZF will continue to stick to its goal of maintaining the core workforce in Germany. "Thanks to a comprehensive restructuring program, we are back on course ...more
2009/11/24 ZF: Automotive Supplier of the Year
The international trade journal "Vehicle Dynamics International" selected ZF as the "Supplier of the Year" 2009. This title is awarded by the British-based journal to distinguish the best achievements in vehicle chassis technology. Decisive for the jury members was especially the great number of innovations ZF has used in the past few years to make vehicle handling and ...more
2009/09/30 ZF betreibt Risikovorsorge und sichert Liquidität
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2009/09/15 ZF faces sharp declines in sales and profits for 2009
Sales for ZF have fallen by a third from January to August 2009 compared to the first eight months of 2008. For the entire year, ZF estimates that corporate sales will fall by a quarter to 9.2 billion euros and anticipates sharp net losses. The number of corporate employees will be reduced by 6 percent to approximately 59,800 by year’s end. ...more
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2009/07/09 Innovations Ahead
With 594 patent applications published in 2008, ZF Friedrichshafen AG is again among the top 10 German patent applicants - ahead of numerous automotive manufacturers. ...more
2009/07/03 ZF Race Camp: Flooring it into the new racing season
Following their successful debut last summer, the ZF-sponsored Formula Student teams met up at the ZF Race Camp in Friedrichshafen. ...more
2009/06/26 Ford Motor Company Awards ZF Gainesville, GA.
The ZF Gainesville, Ga., facility was honored with a “Gold Award” World Excellence Award from the Ford Motor Company on June 22 for being an “outstanding performer” in quality, cost and delivery. ...more
2009/06/26 ZF and ISE Corporation Agree to a Strategic Partnership to Supply Electric Hybrid Drive Systems and Components to North American Vehicle Market
ZF and ISE Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of hybrid propulsion systems and components for heavy duty vehicles, will collaborate on the development and supply of a complete line of Parallel-electric hybrid drive systems and components for the North American vehicle markets. ...more
2009/06/25 VDI gearbox congress: Engineering industry gathers in Friedrichshafen
This year’s international congress on vehicle gearboxes – Getriebe in Fahrzeugen 2009 – is set to attract leaders of Germany’s business community to Friedrichshafen. More than 600 engineers and automobile experts, including VDA President Matthias Wissmann and VDI President Prof. Bruno O. Braun, will gather on Tuesday, 30 June and Wednesday, 31 June at Graf-Zeppelin-Haus for a ‘gearbox summit’. ...more
2009/06/19 German Minister of Family Affairs reconfirmed “Work and the Family” certification
The ZF site in Friedrichshafen continues to be counted among those companies in Germany that are certified to be family-friendly. At an official ceremony in Berlin, federal Minister of Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen recently presented ZF with the certificate of renewal. ...more
2009/05/12 ZF Staff Supports Relief Project in India
New fundraising campaign for India: In Schweinfurt, representatives of the nonprofit association "ZF hilft" hand over a check amounting to EUR 350,000 to "Opportunity International". ...more
2009/04/30 ZF and Continental Agree upon Commercial Vehicle Hybrid Drive Cooperation
ZF develops and produces the drive system and is in charge of system integration ...more
2009/04/29 ZF sales decline slightly in 2008
After three years with an annual above-average growth ZF Friedrichshafen AG reported a slight decline in sales ...more
2009/01/30 "Best Cars" Run With ZF
Five winning models nominated by the "auto motor und sport" reader with driveline and chassis technology by ZF ...more
2009/01/23 No Fear of Technical Subjects: “Wissenswerkstatt” opens in Friedrichshafen
On January 23rd, 2009 the "Wissenswerkstatt" has been opened in Friedrichshafen. ...more
