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STIHL TO UNVEIL FUEL INJECTION
As EHN celebrates its 40th Anniversary, 2011 has seen power tool manufacturer, Stihl, commemorating 85 years since its formation. The company reports that it continues to research into ways of developing more efficient equipment offering increased performance, and on its stand at the Executive Hire Show in February it plans to unveil a two-stroke cut-off saw with electronic fuel injection, designated the TS 500i.
Stihl claims this will be the first hand-held tool to incorporate the technology, which is designed to continuously adjust the fuel mixture, injection and ignition timing, for optimum performance and economical operation. The system is also said to give easier starting and a higher
rate of cut, enabling greater productivity to be achieved. The manufacturer, recognised as having invented the mobile, motorised chainsaw, introduced its first cut-off saw, the TS 08 (pictured above), back in 1963. It launched the hugely popular TS 400 model in 1995, which was superseded by the TS 410 (shown below) in 2007.
Other technological milestones in
Stihl’s history include what it claims to have been the world’s first catalytic converter for a two-stroke engine in 1988, and the 4-Mix engine in 2002, a four-stroke power unit running on a petrol/oil mix, doing away with the need for a separate oil tank. Designed for low emissions and improved fuel economy, the 4-Mix engine has since been used on a wide range of Stihl brushcutters and garden power tools, and is designed to enable consistent operation at any angle.
In 2004, Stihl opened a dedicated R&D Engineering Centre in Waiblingen, Germany, which currently employs 5% of the company’s workforce. Amongst technological developments achieved by the Centre were cordless hedge trimmers powered by Lithium-ion batteries, introduced in 2009, the Pico Duro carbide tipped saw chain launched last year, which is claimed to stay sharper for up to four times longer than standard versions, and now the forthcoming TS 500i cut-off saw.
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