NEWS & EVENTS

"With emerging technologies that are making diesel more efficient while reducing emissions, it will be quite some time before it goes the way of the dinosaurs and becomes extinct."

BLOOMFIELD, CT, USA – Jacobs Vehicle Systems^® has been appointed by China’s Weichai Power Co. to supply engine brake components for two new diesel engines for heavy-duty trucks. Weichai’s 13-liter WP13H and 15-liter WP15H engines, which recently went into production at the company’s plant in Weifang, central Shandong province, both feature Jacobs’ Compression Release Brake.

New Zealand Trucking is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Jake Brake: "It could be described as the sound of our people. If you claim to be a true truck buff, yet fail to spin around in anticipation the instant you hear ‘that sound’, you’re about as committed as Jacinda A is to the National Party conference. This year, our venerable old mate, the Jacobs Engine Brake, celebrates 60 years of slowing us all up.

Every October, the Jacobs team in Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to help support a local charity by buying and selling pies. Jacobs and Kollmorgen employees can buy mini mince pies and/or be a part of the volunteer sales team in the city center of Brno.