AC50 ROTATIONAL MOULDING

We’re ready, finally!

After ideas, dreams, calculations, style drafts, modelling, tests, validations, meetings, many hours of work, the time has come. The mould exits the Acerbis Workshop, like a new Apollo 11 towards its launch pad. This shimmering 3D puzzle, built of aluminium from the ground up, it embodies Acerbis’ vision.

The N8 machine awaits it to create the first piece.

In front of the machine, waiting for it, there is a number.

108.

There are many years of experience of the Acerbis staff who will carry out the first moulding test of the largest motorcycle tank ever built. Donato Argentiero, Production Manager, Mario Russo, Process Technologist, are ready to set the mould on the arm. Shift foremen Cesare Pezzotta, Claudio Roncelli and Simone Zanga, professionals who know every single aspect of this technology, Mara Fiammarelli, chemist, completes the staff: it is she who is in charge of the Acerbis PA6 specifications. Right, Acerbis PA6, because Acerbis does not buy the raw material, Acerbis creates it, to its own particular specification.

The climatic chamber is set, the angular velocities defined, the assumed casting points, the amount of raw material calculated. If a standard motorcycle tank stops the scale needle between 4 kg and 6 kg, with AC50, also in this case, is setting a new record: PA6 weighs 15.2 kg.

A vision is becoming reality. The tool to achieve a World Record is ready to be built for the first time.

“BY ENDURANCE WE CONQUER”.