Cummins touting diesel emissions retrofit businesses, ULSD push

Diesel Fuel News, May 27, 2002

In addition to appearing at diesel retrofit workshops sponsored by U.S. EPA, Cummins is now marketing brochures offering "free horsepower upgrades" and discounts on its "Centinel" lube oil management system for truckers reprogramming their auxiliary engine control devices (AECDs) to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions.

The AECD reprogramming honors EPA lawsuit settlement requirements for Cummins and five other heavy-duty diesel makers, covering so called "off-cycle" NOx emissions on engines built in the prior decade. Cummins "Fleetguard Emissions Solutions" (FES) division also is tapping regional Cummins dealers to boost the retrofitting of diesel trucks with "flash and match" or "flash and catch" systems that not only reprogram AECDs, but also can include installation of pre-approved diesel particle filters (DPFs) or oxi-cats (see Diesel Fuel News 5/13/02, p6). Cummins/FES will evaluate and test products prior to endorsing or offering any warrantees on retrofit systems. It's also working with EPA to promo te earlier-than-2006 introduction of ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) in order to boost diesel retrofit programs, Cummins said at an Atlanta EPA workshop this month.