Name: STP-Parts GmbH
Address: Otto-Hahn-Str. 7, Hilden, NRW, 40721, DE
Telephone: +49-2103-9786610

APRA Europe: Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association, the European trade association of the remanufacturing industry, based in Brussels. STP-Parts is a member.
CHRA: Centre Housing Rotating Assembly, the core assembly of a turbocharger: bearing housing, shaft, compressor and turbine wheel. Usually replaced completely during remanufacturing.
Core: A used original part that serves as the basis for industrial remanufacturing. The term comes from the US reman market.
Core broker: Intermediary who sources cores on the market, identifies, inspects and stores them and supplies them to remanufacturers. STP-Parts is a core broker.
Core charge: Another term for the core deposit, common in the US.
Core deposit: Amount the buyer of an exchange part pays in addition and gets refunded on return of the used part. Secures the remanufacturer's supply of cores.
Core management: Organising the return flow of used parts: collection, identification, inspection, storage and delivery to remanufacturers. The core business of a core broker.
Core return: Return of the used part to the supplier of the exchange part, usually against refund of the deposit.
Dual-mass flywheel (DMF): Flywheel with two spring-coupled masses for vibration damping. Remanufactured by specialised companies; do not open as a core. German abbreviation: ZMS.
EHPS: Electro-hydraulic power steering: an electrically driven hydraulic pump with control unit supplies a conventional steering gear. Common from the 2000s onwards.
EPB: Electric parking brake. On brake calipers with EPB, an actuator motor sits on the caliper and is part of the core.
EPS: Electric power steering, electromechanical steering without hydraulics. Motor and control unit sit on the steering gear (pinion or axle-parallel EPS) or on the steering column.
ERN: European Remanufacturing Network, an EU-funded network whose studies document, among other things, the typical price of reman parts (60–80% of the new part).
Exchange number: Part number of a reman part, at Bosch for example beginning with 0 986. Differs from the number of the new part.
Exchange part: Remanufactured part sold against return of the used part. Synonyms: reman part, service exchange part.
Identification: Assigning a used part to a part number and variant based on type plate, OE number and design. The basis of every valuation.
Incoming inspection: Inspection of a core at the remanufacturer or core broker for identity, completeness and housing condition. Decides on acceptance or rejection.
LIN regulator: Alternator regulator with LIN bus connection to the engine control unit. Must be present on the core.
Lot: Larger quantity of used parts offered as a whole, type-sorted or mixed.
Mesh box (Gitterbox): Stackable steel mesh container on a pallet footprint. Standard packaging for cores in lots.
OE number: Part number of the vehicle manufacturer (Original Equipment). The most important number for identification.
OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer. In the core trade usually synonymous with original part.
Overrunning alternator pulley (OAP/OAD): Alternator pulley with a one-way clutch that keeps torsional vibration from the belt drive away from the alternator. May be missing on the core.
Recirculating ball steering: Steering gear design for heavy vehicles in which a recirculating ball nut transmits the steering movement. Known in the trade as a steering box.
Reman: Short for remanufacturing.
Remanufacturer: Company that carries out remanufacturing on an industrial scale. Buyer of cores. German: Wiederinstandsetzer.
Remanufacturing: Industrial reconditioning: complete disassembly, cleaning, inspection, replacement of all wear parts, assembly to OE specification, test bench. The result is an exchange part with warranty.
Return conditions: Rules of an exchange programme under which a used part is accepted as a deposit return: variant, completeness, condition, deadline, packaging.
Steering box: Steering gear of recirculating ball design for trucks, buses and off-road vehicles.
Type plate: Label or stamping on the part with manufacturer, part number and often the OE number. Must be legible on the core.
Type-sorted: Separated by part type. A type-sorted mesh box contains only starters or only turbochargers.
Used part: A used, removed vehicle part. Not every used part is a core: only remanufacturable used parts with an intact housing count as cores.
VGT / VNT: Variable geometry turbine: turbocharger with adjustable guide vanes and actuator. The actuator is part of the core.
Wastegate: Exhaust bypass valve on a fixed-geometry turbocharger that limits boost pressure. Pneumatically or electrically actuated.
Wiederinstandsetzung: German term for remanufacturing. Not to be confused with Instandsetzung (repair of a single fault).
ZMS: German abbreviation for Zweimassenschwungrad, the dual-mass flywheel. See Dual-mass flywheel (DMF).

Glossary: remanufacturing and the core trade

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