Perkins Engines Company Limited has secured a multi-million pound grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to develop innovative off-highway diesel engine technologies.
The £13m government and industry grant, secured through the APC, has been awarded to Perkins to support the development of innovative technologies for UK built off-highway diesel engines which are exported worldwide.
The £25.1m project will be led by Perkins’ Peterborough facility but will be delivered in partnership with the Coventry office of DENSO INTERNATIONAL UK, Loughborough University, Imperial College London and CMCL Innovations in Cambridge.
As the construction and industrial diesel engine market continues to demand improved fuel consumption, the project will focus on meeting this need while delivering low CO2 technologies on the next generation of engines.
“This collaboration with DENSO INTERNATIONAL UK, Loughborough University, Imperial College London and CMCL Innovations, each of who we have worked closely with over the years, is focused on engine performance, fuel economy and exhaust emission improvements and will support the development of innovative technologies for off-highway diesel engine applications,” said Mark Stratton, general manager Perkins medium engines.
As well as advancing CO2 reduction technologies, around 175 jobs will be created by the partnership between now and 2018.
Acquired by Caterpillar Inc in 1998, today Perkins is one of the world’s leading suppliers of off-highway diesel and gas engines in the 4–2000 kW market, developing and delivering dependable power solutions to construction, agricultural, materials handling and electrical power generation equipment manufacturers around the globe.
