SAI has always invested massive resources in research and development of its hydraulic motors. Following this path, at the beginning of the eighties, the research and development department has been transformed into an independent company called R & D. This company boasts an excellent structure and cutting edge equipment for the research and the development of hydraulic components, as well as for the fabrication of prototypes.
In R&D a variety of activities are carried out. Among these, the most important is certainly progress of the researches and the developments build around new concepts or new technologies applied to SAI motors. From the original project, R&D moves to the study and the manufacturing of the prototypes that are then tested on a number of test benches, in the hardest and most significant working conditions.
For a total customer satisfaction, R&D is constantly engaged in reproducing the duty cycles of the motors in the most diverse applications as well as in studying new solutions to improve the performances. Alongside with this, cooperating with various classification societies, R&D offers to its customers the possibility to certify that the operation of their products is meeting the terms of the various standards ruling the applications.
In order to keep in close contact with the most recent scientific development, R&D has then strengthened its cooperation and engagements with Universities and research groups. Moreover, recently it has begun to work more frequently for other components manufactures who have commissioned researches and fabrication of prototypes.
R&D intends to be present on the market as serious and efficient partner in order to guarantee to your products the necessary technical development to be market leader. For further information on R&D activities please contact our offices directly. We will be glad to answer your questions.

R&D EQUIPMENT R&D has the most advanced equipment in order to realise and test prototypes of any kind of hydraulic motors, hydraulic pumps, and oil-pressured valves, here below the most important equipment are listed:

  • Electrical pumps from 18 to 75 kW fixed and variable
  • 2 Diesel Motors from 185 kW (250 HP) to 330 kW (450 HP), combined power 515 kW (700 HP) connected to variable and fixed pumps for capacities until 2000 l/min and pressures until 290 bar
  • Multipliers of pressure until 1300 bar
  • Life and inertia benches
  • Data acquisition systems
  • Metrological room

Contact us at:

R&D S.r.l.
Via Olanda 71/A
41000 Modena

Tel: +39 059 313360
Fax: +39 059 310874

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