By Lucas Deal, Associate Editor
Creating product options for a customer is just one advantage to selling OE remanufactured components in your business, says Chip Rembert, director of OE sales for Alma Products.
“A remanufactured part allows a dealer the opportunity to provide multiple price points when making a repair for a customer,” says Rembert, whose company remanufacturers heavy-duty transmissions. “It allows you to give your customer options and they appreciate that.
“Look at it this way; if you go out to dinner, do you want to go to a restaurant that serves one item or one that serves more?”
Remanufacturing is the process of taking the core of a previously used component, stripping it down to its base and then recreating it with new components. While remanufacturing is a type of rebuilding, Henry Foxx, director – Bendix remanufacturing business unit, says OE remanufacturing creates a considerably better final product.
“There is a distinct difference between a remanufactured product from an OE and a simply rebuilt product,” he says. “OE remanufactured products meet or exceed the OE specifications for the original product.”
