China Yutong and American Aluminum Company Debut Complete Aluminum Coach
15 July 2008
Recently, World leading bus and coach manufacturer China Yutong and famous American Aluminum Company announced to debut a new generation complete aluminum coach, model ZK6126HGE, which is a new environmental protection coach and is going to serve 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Compared with traditional coach, ZK6126HGE is lighter approximate 46% of vehicle's body weight due to its main part is made of aluminum, which can save oil consumption and reduce emission of exhausted gas effectively.
A new study indicates while a city diesel oil coach loses weight 100 kg, it would save fuel oil 2550 litres in whole operational cycle of certain stops, meanwhile, it could reduce CO2 emission largely. So realizing breakthrough to lose more than 1000 kg of each coach is significant to Yutong. And actually, Yutong has had its 12 meters long city public transport lost over 1400kg by cooperating with Aluminum Company.
About Yutong
Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Yutong Group”), its head office located in Zhengzhou, Henan province, is a large-scale enterprise group with bus making as the core business, engineering machinery and real estate as the strategic business and at the same time giving attention to other investment portfolios. According to State Statistics Bureau, Yutong Group ranks 324 in “China’s Top 500 Enterprises” and at the same time stood 41 in “China’s 500 Most Competitive Enterprises of the Year 2006” as the only bus enterprise to enter into this list. In 2007，The sales amount of Yutong Group reached high up to RMB 12,588,000,000, taking up over 22% of the domestic market share. In the same year, 25,522 units of Yutong buses were sold through out the whole year, making Yutong Group once again enter into world top 5 considering the sales volume. And among them, 3,319buses were exported with the export amount up to USD187 million, increasing 92% compared with the corresponding period last year. Till now, the possessed number of Yutong buses all over the world exceeds 120 thousand, making Yutong an international large-scale bus manufacturing enterprise.
About Alcoa
Alcoa is the world leader in the production and management of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina combined, through its active and growing participation in all major aspects of the industry.
Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities of Alcoa's businesses to customers.
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