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BMW Plant Eisenach manufactures Keel Fin for BMW ORACLE Racing Yacht. 32nd America's Cup US challenger counts on technology expertise from Thuringia.
Wed Nov 23 14:15:00 CET 2005 Press Release
The path to the America's Cup in Valencia 2007 leads through Eisenach, stopping at the BMW Tool Manufacture. For the next three months, the expert design team, usually responsible for the manufacture of large compression moulds and design prototypes, will co-write a chapter in the history of the America's Cup. In January 2006, one of the most significant yacht components for the current BMW ORACLE campaign, the keel fin, will be manufactured in the BMW plant Eisenach / Thuringia. The new racing yacht inclusive of the new keel fin may debut as early as May 2006 at the Louis Vuitton Act 10 starting 11 May. The production of the keel will play a vital role as the 32nd America's Cup challenger takes on titleholder Alinghi in Valencia 2007.
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Munich, Germany. The path to the America's Cup in Valencia 2007 leads through
Eisenach, stopping at the BMW Tool Manufacture. For the next three months, the
expert design team, usually responsible for the manufacture of large
compression moulds and design prototypes, will co-write a chapter in the
history of the America's Cup. In January 2006, one of the most significant
yacht components for the current BMW ORACLE campaign, the keel fin, will be
manufactured in the BMW plant Eisenach / Thuringia. The new racing yacht
inclusive of the new keel fin may debut as early as May 2006 at the Louis
Vuitton Act 10 starting 11 May. The production of the keel will play a vital
role as the 32nd America's Cup challenger takes on titleholder Alinghi in
Valencia 2007.
"With its series production for BMW, the BMW Plant Eisenach draws on a host of
experience in the manufacture of tools and the processing of major component
parts. Placing the production in the Eisenach Plant is, once again, an
indicator that BMW is consistently transferring technology competence gained in
automotive research to the sport of race yachting," says Professor Dr. Raymond
Freymann, Director BMW Group Research and Technology, and responsible for the
supervision of the BMW engineers in the BMW ORACLE Racing Design Team. "The
Eisenach Plant provides a high international standard with regard to precision
and quality. BMW will prove this once more with the manufacture of the
technologically very sophisticated fin. The new yacht will benefit from this."
In the course of the manufacture, the crew will closely cooperate with the BMW
ORACLE Racing Design Team.
The fin's manufacturing in the BMW Plant Eisenach is yet another example of
BMW's technology proficiency in the field of high-performance race yachting.
With an overall weight of a little over one ton, the fin is three metres in
length and consists of ultra high-strength steel, the same material used in
crash-relevant structural fields in BMW vehicles. The fin is the important
connecting piece between the hull of the boat and the keel bomb in the "Formula
One of Yachting."
The BMW Plant Eisenach was officially put into operation in 1992 and employs
250 personnel. The plant is housing the BMW Tool Manufacture and made its mark
with the production of design models and prototype component parts.
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