Gévelot Group

Subsidiaries - Gurtner

Gas regulation and engine fluid proportioning

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Gurtner’s know-how is based on more than a hundred years of expertise and recognized in the two wheels and automotive engine equipment sector, in gas equipment for home, industrial and network applications.

Engine equipment

Gurtner has more than 100 years experience in the design, production and marketing of the products used for fluid circulation. The biggest manufacturers work with Gurtner in the engine equipment for 2 wheels and automotive sector because its know-how and its capability of adapting to the market make it a trustable partner.

Two wheels engine equipment

  • Flap carburetors
  • Oil pumps
  • Throttle boxes
  • Air valves
  • Air compressors
  • Gasoline valves

Automobile engine equipment

  • Proportioning pumps
  • Heating valves
  • Steam relief valves

The distribution of domestic, industrial and network gas

Gurtner’s gas activity is essentially focused on the European and Middle East markets. The quality of the products and advice offered by Gurtner are guaranteed by the baking of the NF certification (for most of its products) and/or the GDF approval.

Gurtner produces gas equipment like

  • Couplings
  • Taps
  • Flexible hoses
  • Pressure relief valves
  • Boxes for domestic gas networks upstream and downstream of the meter and industrial property

Gurtner has set up related high-performance services in order to always remain available for its customers, especially to supply them with information and follow up.

  • Training : Gurtner has been a certified training organization since 2004. Its technicians approved as instructors supervise the apprenticeship of the installers.
  • Internet www.gurtner.fr
  • Technical hotline
  • “D + 2” logistics

A wide range of technical products

To deal with the constant arrival of news markets and new customers, Gurtner remains one of the main players in its sector, always at the cutting edge of innovation

  • Steam relief valve : Used as equipment on LPG cars by means of a second tank so that the driver can choose freely between a gasoline "fuel feed" or the LPG source.
  • Proportioning pumps : Used for injecting cleaning products into the particle filters of vehicles to minimize their fouling
  • Throttle boxes : These are one of the components of the injection system for regulating the air before injection.

Means of research and development suited to the market

Gurtner has a product and process design office in which engineers and technicians operate together as a project team. The software used is a way of carrying out :

  • Functional analyses and FMECAs (Failure Mode Evaluation and Criticality Analysis)
  • 3D design (Topsolid software)
  • Material strength studies (Topcastor software)
  • Electromagnetic simulation studies (Flux2D software working on a partnership with Cédrat)
  • Fluid flow studies )Ansys CFX software)

Gurtner also has a test laboratory with climatic enclosures, vibration benches, endurance and cycling benches, salt spray testing equipment as well as complete metrology systems for validating every possible design.

A company turned towards the future

Thanks to its know-how in micromechanicals, Gurtner now wants to assume a position on the peripheral components market too, especially for fluid mechanics. To do this, Gurtner has undertaken a number of actions to set up commercial and technical partnerships and extend its field of skills to new markets.

Prestigious customers and partners

Engine equipment :

  • TI Automotive
  • Synerject
  • Yamaha (Minarelli)
  • Peugeot Motocycles
  • BEHR

Gas distribution :

  • GAPSA
  • CEDEO
  • COMAFRANC
  • Dupont Sanitaire
  • SIDER

Industrial gas equipment :

  • TOTALGAZ
  • GDF
  • STEG Tunisie
  • BUTAGAZ
  • GL International