The Bendix M-40 pressure modulator valve has reached the 1 million unit production milestone. The M-40 attained the milestone in only one year.
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC is on pace to manufacture more than 1.4 million M-40 modulator valves per year by 2018 at its valve production facility in Acuña, Mexico.
“The industry is turning to active safety technologies in ever-growing numbers, a trend that will only increase when NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) releases its final stability rule,” said Mike Tober, product manager for Vehicle Dynamic Systems at Bendix. “As individual vehicles are spec’d with more and more active safety systems, greater numbers of valve actuations are required, and the M-40™ valve is designed to meet those demands. Fleets can trust that the valve, engineered for additional durability, is up to the job both for today’s systems and the active safety technologies of tomorrow.”
