DAF opens new Engine Test Centre

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende officially opened a state-of-the-art DAF Engine Test Centre in Eindhoven in The Netherlands. The engine test facility has 20 advanced test cells and isaid to be one of the most modern in the world.

“The Test Centre will play an important role in the future development of more efficient and cleaner engines, and enable DAF to build on its leading position in engine development,” said Aad Goudriaan, president of DAF Trucks.

“The investment of over $85 million in this ultramodern Test Centre also underlines the importance our parent company Paccar. attaches to the knowledge and experience that DAF has built up in more than fifty years of engine development and production.”

Apart from engines for DAF, the company also develops engines for Peterbilt and Kenworth, the other truck marques of Paccar.