NRF is known as the European leader in development and production of engine cooling, interior cooling and interior heating parts. With its R&D department in Mill the Netherlands, four production facilities in Europe and five in India, NRF anticipates quickly on developments in the market. Since NRF was founded in 1927, O.E. customers and customers in the independent aftermarket are supplied with a broad range of truck cooling parts in and outside Europe.

Less known are engine gaskets for trucks, which are also developed and manufactured within the NRF group, commissioned by O.E. customers.
 
NRF has built a long relationship with O.E. and aftermarket customers throughout the years. From June 2014 on, NRF will introduce engine gaskets for trucks under its own NRF label and add them to the engine cooling and air-conditioning delivery program NRF is known for.

In every engine, numerous gaskets have the task of closing spaces between metal surfaces, to hold cooling fluid, engine oil, compressed air or exhaust gasses in the appropriate canals. In most cases gaskets are constructed to close one canal in the engine.

The head gasket is the exception and has to deal with cooling fluid, engine oil and exhaust gasses all at the same time. The requirements for cylinder head gaskets are more complex, since they have to resist various substances, high temperatures and high pressures. Temperatures in the combustion chamber can rise up to 2500 degrees.  A few centimetres further in the cylinder head this will end at 300 degrees. Pressure differs for petrol and diesel engines, with respectively 140 and 200 bar as maximum.

NRF engine gaskets compensate the expansion of different engine parts and the generated surface pressure.