Haldex

October 1986.

of Newton Aycliffe

Part of Garphyttan Hesselman, a Swedish group.

1916 Swedish Brake Regulator Company introduced brake adjusters (trade mark SAB) intially for rail cars, subsequently applied to road vehicles.

1972 SAB became part of a Swedish trading company, Sonnesons.

By the late 1970s further mergers had led to SAB becoming a subsidiary of Volvo

1983 Incentive AB, a Swedish conglomerate, stepped in to take control of SAB.

A subsequent restructuring led to SAB and Haldex, makers of electronic and mechanical instruments including taximeters and the Halda road computer used by rally drivers, being brought together as Haldex AB, a subsidiary of the Garphyttan Hesselman group. The two other main divisions of the group are Garphyttan, the leading supplier of valve spings, and Hesselman Elhydraulic, whose primary product is the electro-hydraulic power pack used by most European tail-lift manufacturers.

1986 Haldex derived most of its income from automatic slack adjusters for brakes. New products included the Haldex twin-chamber air drier, tailored to the needs of PSV manufacturers and operators who have to keep platform height low, and a heated automatic air reservoir drain valve, which Daf now uses; because it is powered via the stop-light circuit, this valve operates at a higher frequency than other types which are dependent upon air pressure build-up.

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