FPT plans engines for complex market

Expected in 2019, the impending European Stage V emissions regulations for off-highway engines will remain top of the agenda for FPT. EU regulators will limit both particle number, or PN, as well as tighten the existing particle mass limits. Stage V also reduces NOx, HC, and CO limits.

While these are stringent, it is also true that the EU market governed by Stage V is only a small part of the global market, according to Federico Gaiazzi, Vice President of Marketing & Product Management for FPT Industrial. Sharing his views with Off-Highway Engineering, Gaiazzi noted that these EU regulations may well affect how regulators approach their own national needs in other parts of the world. Gaiazzi believes it is likely that emissions regulations and fuel quality restrictions imposed in other countries will tighten in response to the EU actions.