Mitas awarded by AGCO Supplier of the Year 2015
AGCO Mitas has appointed as its Supplier of the Year 2015 in the category Engineering and Innovation daytime supplier AGCO EAME (Europe, Africa and Middle East). Mitas won in this category thanks to the successful development of AirCell quoted, which is part of VarioGrip Fendt Pro system. The award was presented to representatives of Mitas in Marktoberdorf (Germany) in late November.
“The close collaboration between Mitas and AGCO is long, and our relationships are outstanding. In particular, cooperation with Fendt in AirCell project, which is part of VarioGrip Pro was very intense and successful, “said Jens Steinhardt, Mitas’ key account manager. “This is the third recognition for AirCell project has also received the Gold Medal at Agritechnica and Machine Award of the Year 2016,” Steinhardt added.
During the event, Dr. Heribert Reiter, Vice President in the area of AGCO tractors, emphasized the successful cooperation between Fendt and Mitas, particularly in the VarioGrip Pro System design and development of AirCell.
Mitas started working with Fendt in the development of AirCell seven years. AirCell is integrated into the VarioGrip Pro as part of the system pressure regulation. The idea of an inner chamber was originally patented in 1962. Other manufacturers tried to develop it, but only Fendt Mitas and they have succeeded.
Mitas AirCell is a unique camera that allows inflating large agricultural tires 1 bar (from 0.8 bar to 1.8 bar) in half a minute. Mitas AirCell is placed on the rim inside the tire, occupying about 30% of volume. Mitas AirCell designed for 710/75 R42 Mitas SFT, being available for other measures in the future. AirCell is constantly inflated to a maximum pressure of 8 bar during use of the tire, freeing some of this pressure as needed, enabling rapid agricultural tire inflation while facilitating the self-adjustment of the pressure, which will be held in seconds rather than minutes. Mitas AirCell available for Fendt 900 Vario equipped with Mitas 710 / 75R42 SFT from November 2016. This unique system will have the VarioGrip inflation Pro commercial designation.
Source: Mitas
