New: Air Spring Modules with Shock Absorbers

September 2010Perfectly matched: now ContiTech offers cab mount air springs with integral shock absorbers.

For the first time, ContiTech Air Spring Systems is marketing air spring modules for the open replacement trade. Intended for cab suspension, the modules are delivered together with hydraulic dampers. The air spring modules are sold under the Phoenix brand name – ContiTech’s quality brand for the replacement market. The high-quality modules match perfectly and, when it comes to quality, they are a real alternative to the original replacement part.

ContiTech is thus following an important trend as more and more customers from the open replacement trade prefer overall solutions to individual components. The advantage of these systems is that they are tuned to each other as a unit and with regards to quality – a high-quality air spring also needs the suitable shock absorber. Hydraulic shock absorbers which are available on the open replacement market as individual part or in air spring modules often cannot provide sufficient damping.

In the production of the new air spring modules, ContiTech profits from many years of expertise in air springs and development in the field of conventional air spring system. ContiTech obtains the hydraulic shock absorber, which completes the module, from a German manufacturer: “We want to offer our customers – in the replacement market, in particular – a product that meets up to our high quality demands, also as regards the damper. That is why we opted for a manufacturer that has excellent development know-how and produces the dampers in Germany. Here we can be sure that the quality is up to snuff,” explains Dirk Hoffmeister, head of the Commercial Vehicle Replacement segment at ContiTech.