REINTJES ESPAÑA, S.A.

Research and development activities at the headquarters in Hamelin form the basis for our competitiveness as a specialist in propulsion technology and, hence, are an essential requirement.

The strength of our development department are our engineers whose on-going further training and qualification is a matter of course for us. They contribute their knowledge and show a high sense of responsibility and commitment when working in the teams that are faced with ever changing tasks. Besides further development of our standard products, these tasks include drawing up concepts for new, strategic product ideas. At our own test facility new developments are tested, analysed and assessed, from the component to the product as a whole, prior to their market launch.

As a medium-sized enterprise, we participate in fundamental research as well as in joint application-oriented, pre-competition research undertaken by the Research Association Power Transmission Engineering (FVA) of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA).

When developing new products, the development department analyses engineering questions in cooperation with university institutes and research centres. We have close contacts with technical universities, namely TU Munich, RWTH Aachen, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Leibniz Universität Hannover, TU Clausthal, TU Chemnitz as well as TU Kaiserslautern and TU Dresden.

Modern, powerful computer programmes support the development and design processes of our products.

Besides the calculation tools provided by the FVA, we use programmes developed by ourselves as well as commercial software such as the finite element system ANSYS to solve structural and mechanical problems. The design work is based on a modern CAD system.