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Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!

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ZF Expands Manufacturing Capacity in Poland


ZF Expands Manufacturing Capacity in Poland

The auto business in Poland has a notable share in country’s industrial life, equal to about 11% of country’s industrial-scale manufacturing. Favourable conditions for conduct of business attract major representatives of the auto industry in Poland and ZF is no exception. ZF is a worldwide leader in manufacturing of transmission and chassis solutions as well as in passive safety products.


ZF plans to put up a new plant in Czestochowa and facilitate manufacturing of safety product lines including cutting-edge camera generations for active safety and passenger safety electronics such as airbag management units. It is worth noting that ZF already has a significant workforce in Czestochowa including original Poland electronics tech hub with more than 6,000 specialists in this region and about 8,000 in Poland overall. The new plant with approximately 300 employees will start mass production by the end of 2019 and will advance further growth in the developing electronics business. Moreover, ZF has recently opened a new technical center in Lodz.

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Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!

Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.

Over recent years engineers developed a lot of gear shifting solutions for different car brands, which may seem a bit unusual for oldtime drivers. In this article we will review the most peculiar gear stick technologies and provide video materials related to these technologies.

Only few people know about transmission concepts which were popular 70-90 years ago. For men of today, these gearboxes may seem very unusual and weird, but even now some gearboxes that date back to those years are quite competitive in comparison with modern transmissions.

Nowadays Extroid CVTs are commonly known as “toroidal” due to the fact that the working surface of driving and driven discs in this transmission has the form of a torus. Extroid CVT is not a V-belt transmission, but a friction drive CVT.