We have been making the case since 1972. Below is the full picture, with the numbers your sustainability team can put in a report.
A reman alternator runs at a fraction of the energy cost of a new one, costs your distributors less, and keeps a few pounds of copper and aluminum out of the resmelting cycle. We have been doing this since 1972.
Less energy than building a new unit
Cost reduction vs new for your distributors
Tons CO2 saved by the reman industry every year
Recovered units stay out of the smelter, conserving the energy required to refine raw aluminum and copper at scale.
Iron, aluminum, and copper from existing cores are re-used in place rather than dug from a new pit.
Core-charge economics keep tons of recoverable mass out of US landfills every year.
Avoiding the resmelt step removes a meaningful slice of the pollution profile attached to each unit.
Reman units routinely match or exceed the durability of new - measurably so, on the same test stand.
Source: Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association industry estimates. PPROK figures from internal annual production data.
See the full sustainability briefCores stay out of the smelter, which avoids the energy required to re-refine raw aluminum, copper, and steel. The savings are measurable per unit and material per year, sourced from APRA industry estimates.
Industry rebuilders save millions of tons of non-renewable raw materials annually. Every alternator we rebuild is one less unit of demand on a new mine, a new smelter, and a new shipping lane.
Distributors and end users get money back for sending a worn core to a remanufacturer. That economic incentive is what keeps millions of tons of recoverable mass out of US landfills.
New-part manufacturing has a known emissions profile attached to it. Remanufacturing routes around the dirtiest step in that profile - the re-melt of recovered metal - and the air-quality benefit at industry scale runs to tens of millions of tons of CO2 every year.
We can substitute better bearings, better diodes, better regulators where the field data shows the OEM design has a weak point. Reman is not a compromise; for many platforms, it is the engineering upgrade.
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Dan Brooks and the engineering team review every new OEM program request. Send the application detail and target volume; you will hear back within two business days.