Air Ducts and Sealings

Consistent thermal management

Our air ducts and seals are the efficient complement to our air flap systems. They consistently continue our solutions and direct the air flows to where they can best develop their effect. In this way, air ducts and seals become the supporting pillar of successful thermal management and aerodynamics.

The entire vehicle in view

Our goal is to maintain the excellent leakage characteristics of our solutions throughout the entire vehicle. To achieve this, we develop the entire system from the air intake onwards. Different materials are cleverly combined and the modular design ensures that almost every vehicle model can benefit from the optimizations.

The most important highlights

• Secure sealing between air inlet (grille) and AGS (Active Grille Shutter) prevents leakage
• Through effective channels, the air is directed to where it is supposed to work.
• CO₂ savings through improved aerodynamics
• Robustly constructed for the entire service life of the vehicle
• Modular design enables cross-architecture application
• Integrated concepts for sealing/airflow
• Foldable design facilitates shipping and assembly
• Compensation of tolerances (manufacturing tolerances/assembly/temperature fluctuations etc.)
• Many years of experience and numerous references
• Optional additional functions

Your customer benefit through our Air Ducts and Sealings

Airflow management

• Secure sealing between air inlet (grille) and AGS (Active Grille Shutter). An optimum seal is the basis for excellent leakage characteristics of the AGS unit.
• Channels direct the air exactly where it is needed.

Flexible design

• Integrated concepts for sealing/airflow
• Air ducts/gaskets as individual parts (1K/2K) or integrated in the AGS frame (2K)
• Hybrid construction combines hard and flexible materials
• Optional: Foldable air ducts
  • Delivery takes place folded, the component is only unfolded during assembly in the vehicle
  • Enormous space saving during transport and storage
• Surrounding parts can be integrated optionally

Cost reduction

• Innovative materials and technologies from Röchling Automotive (for example GIT, MuCell and many more)

Full Service from Röchling

• Röchling has many years of experience and numerous references in air ducts and effective sealing
• The complete system comes from us: from the overall concept to development, testing, validation and production
• Excellent simulation capacities are available at Röchling:
  • CFD, fluid-structure interaction
  • Pressure diagrams: Type 1 ((module) leakage through the closure device), Type 2 ((seal) leakage around the closure device)
• Testing at component and system level (including wind tunnel for proprietary components)
• On request, testing at vehicle level (wind tunnel, track test)
• Development and production at numerous locations worldwide