Denso Launches PowerEdge Emissions-Control Products

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Denso Products announced that it will begin accepting orders for its new line of PowerEdge diesel particulate filter and diesel oxidation catalyst replacement products for heavy-duty trucks and equipment in March.

The all-makes original equipment replacement program features 60 DPF part numbers covering more than 260 OE-quality parts and 7 DOC part numbers for heavy-duty on-road and off-road trucks and equipment. The PowerEdge line was announced at Heavy Duty Aftermarket Week in January and is being produced in partnership with Clean Diesel Technologies, a global manufacturer of vehicle emissions control systems.

The companies plan to expand the line with an additional 20 DPF and 15 DOC part numbers later this year.

“Denso is excited to partner with CDTi to meet the growing demand for OE-quality diesel aftertreatment products in the heavy-duty trucking and equipment industry,” said Frank Jenkins, senior manager of Denso's heavy duty marketing group. “CDTi is a clean-tech company that shares our commitment to product reliability and durability, rigorous safety and performance standards, innovation, customer service and environmental stewardship.”

PowerEdge aftermarket DPFs and DOCs match or exceed the emissions control performance and benefits of OEM replacement units when installed in 2007 model year and newer heavy-duty diesel equipment, according to Denso.

The turnkey DPFs and DOCs are approved for horizontal, vertical, and dual installation and backed by a two-year, unlimited mileage warranty. All products are designed and manufactured in North America.

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NASHVILLE -- The efforts of the design and engineering team at Stoughton Trailers to improve the design of the trailer rear underride guard has earned the company the ToughGuard Award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the respect of Marianne Karth, a survivor of a rear-impact crash that took the lives of two of her daughters.

On May 4, 2013, Karth was driving her full-size sedan when she was struck by a tractor-trailer, sending her car spinning backward into the rear of another tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer's rear underride guard could not withstand the crash and detached from the trailer, allowing Ms. Karth's car to slide backward under the trailer. The trunk of the car went under the rear of the trailer at the outer edge, and the back of the trailer body entered the back seat of Ms. Karth's car, killing her 17-year-old daughter, Anna Leah, instantly. Mary Lydia, her 13-year-old daughter, died a few days later from her critical injuries.

That tractor-trailer's rear underride guard met the 1998 Federal underride standards. In 2011, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested underride guards of eight major trailer manufacturers. All of the underride guards tested met the Federal standards of the day, but none of them were able to stop underride on the outer edges -- the so-called 30-percent offset zone.

Subsequent IIHS testing performed in March 2013 -- just two months before the Karth's fatal crash -- revealed that only one of the eight manufacturers had designed their guard to successfully prevent underride at the outer edges.

Once the IIHS findings were published, Karth began advocating for safer tractor-trailers. She even filed her own petition for an improved underride rulemaking that went to the Department of Transportation on May 5, 2014. In addition, her husband, Jerry, began writing letters to ...Read the rest of this story

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