Why Scania Chooses Swagelok as a Trusted Engineering Partner
SCANIA is a world-leading provider of transport solutions with a strong focus on sustainable mobility, including natural gas-powered vehicles that deliver comparable torque and power to diesel while reducing emissions and noise. To meet demanding customer specifications and tight manufacturing deadlines, SCANIA partnered with Swagelok Ibérica for fluid system expertise, technical training, and custom solutions support. From high-pressure filling panels to fittings, shut-off valves, gauges, and technician education, Swagelok Ibérica helped SCANIA maintain safety standards, loading performance, and long-term reliability while supporting the company’s ability to respond quickly to customer and service needs.
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SCANIA has a consolidated strategy focused on sustainability, from the manufacture and commercialization to the recycling of vehicles.
Accordingly, SCANIA has many products: hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, ethanol vehicles—we have many options.
One of the options is the gas-powered vehicle. Our current vehicles have exactly the same torque and power as an equivalent diesel vehicle, and they are driven in the same way. What’s more, apart from delivering clear benefits in terms of contamination, thanks to the reduction of many emissions, they are half as noisy. This has received very positive feedback from drivers and operators, who are encouraged to use them as a result.
At the technical training school, we teach a wide range of training programs that include a course on gas vehicles. Swagelok Ibérica teaches us everything about fittings to a very high standard that mainly deals with safety and troubleshooting problems. It provides a combination of theory and practice that people who take the course appreciate a lot.
In line with the requirements of EMT Madrid, which is the biggest city bus operator in Spain, demanding bid specifications are drawn up in which the filling panel is subject to a very strict specification. This has become standard for many Spanish and European city transport companies, so that 1,500 liters, or 200 to 240 kg of gas, can be filled in three minutes.
The most important thing that Swagelok Ibérica delivers is the level of expertise about products. They pass on information to our engineers in a very flexible way, so it is easy to work with them.
Swagelok Ibérica worked alongside us, first on modifying and then on designing a full filling panel, going from the filling connector all the way to the shut-off valve and the pressure gauge, ensuring that all safety standards were met and, above all, that the loading rates would be maintained for many years of a vehicle’s service life.
Since 2017, we have trained more than 340 technicians. In the last part of this course, we worked with Swagelok Ibérica to increase the scope of our training courses.
In one way or another, we know that as far as high-pressure circuits and filling panels go, we will always find a technology partner that will give us a hand in their design and in meeting manufacturing deadlines. This later enables us to attain a high level of traceability for spare parts and to respond to the city bus operator within the deadlines set, which are very short, for any other spare parts, filling panels, gauges, shut-off valves, or whatever may be needed at any given time. There is a saying that says, “If you want to do something quickly, walk alone. But if you want to go far, walk with someone.”
