February 1, 2010 - New year, new events - by Juho

At first, I would like to wish Happy New Year to all the readers also on my behalf. Year 2010 will be full of interesting events for CuproBraze Alliance. One of the biggest is Bauma 2010 – 29th international trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, construction vehicles and construction equipment. It will take place in Munich, on 19 to 25 April 2010.

Bauma 2010 is world's largest trade fair for the construction machinery sector. Despite the lurking recession, the event is expected to be huge. In 2007 it gathered over 500,000 visitors and 3,000 exhibitors around the world, so it's a "definite must" for the companies of this trade. Also I will attend in Bauma 2010, as a representative of CuproBraze Alliance and Finnradiator, together with Mr Daniel Schnee, Applications Manager of Umicore BrazeTec.

Bauma 2010 offers great scene to introduce the advantages of CuproBraze technology in thermal management systems. Along with tightening emission standards, such as Tier and Euro, the requirements for thermal management products are increasing. To comply with the new emission standards, average inlet temperatures of charge-air-coolers could reach 246 °C. A CuproBraze heat exchanger can operate at 290 °C without any problems such as creep and fatigue affecting performance or causing failure. It is CTO's, Designer's and Purchasing manager's duty to consider replacing the solution consisting of aluminium charge-air-cooler and stainless steel pre-cooler with one CuproBraze charge-air-cooler, when aiming for high return of investments from material and energy efficiency.

If You wish to discuss this or other advantages of CuproBraze technology during the fair, please, contact me at: juho.partanen (a) finnradiator.com See You in Munich!

PS. There will be interesting technical article on CuproBraze technology in Industrial Technology International, Bauma review.

January 28, 2010 - Good start for the year! - by Markku

A new year with new opportunities has started. We who live in the Nordic countries have experienced a real winter after so many years. We had a white Christmas and the snow is still on the ground and we got a lot more yesterday. Nice to have snow in the otherwise dark period of the year. As regards CuproBraze, Alliance and the member companies have received many enquiries and messages from people interested in the technology. That is encouraging when the economy is still down. We will do our best to support all viable projects by information and expertise. Alliance will have some interesting events this year. Keep on track on the "Upcoming Events" page on this web site. I wish all of you a good start for the year!