Kaleidos, Walvoil and Agritechnica 2025

At Agritechnica 2025, Walvoil presented Kaleidos (in ancient Greek means “good shape”), a prototype that condenses the ability of the Italian company itself and the Interpump Group to contribute to the outfitting/set-up of an industrial vehicle. Kaleidos combines features dedicated to the agricultural, construction and lifting sectors and is a tangible sign of the richness of working as a system.

Summarizing the Walvoil offer to the demo at Agritechnica 2025

Walvoil contributed to the design and with proposals of directional control valves, compact hydraulics and electronics.

These included:

• the DPX series, Full Flow Sharing valves, highly configurable and suitable for a wide range of applications, available with a wide range of proportional controls, including the new EPD-certified NG5 CANbus module;
• the DPK120 pre-compensated sectional valve, particularly suitable for applications on tractors and front loaders and available for open and closed centre circuits;
• the PWLS series of cast iron Load Sensing pumps, also designed for control with ALS (Adaptive Load Sensing);
• the Walvoil Fan Drive, particularly suitable for applications on mobile machinery thanks to its performance, low maintenance costs and long life cycle;
• the SDE/SDX series of solenoid-operated bankable valves, which offer the market a compact, high-performance control solution;
• the CJW CANbus joystick with XMH handle, robust and particularly suitable for off-highway machinery;
• the DJW joystick, ISOBUS version of Walvoil joysticks, combined with the MTH handle with capacitive operator presence detection;
• the CED1200S electronic control unit, useful for safety-related applications and programmable via Mathworks
• VOSL/VODL counterbalance valves and E-VBL electric lock valves.

About what the other sister companies did for Kaleidos

White with its Steer by Wire SbX system, Reggiana Riduttori with its hydraulic and electric motor wheels, Oleodinamica Panni with its customised cylinders, and IMM Hydraulics (Interpump Fluid Solutions) with a mention of its wide range of hoses and fittings.

Digital applications

With the guiding theme ‘Touch Smart Efficiency’, Walvoil will show at Agritechnica 2025 how smart technologies, present across the entire range of agricultural equipment, improve productivity while conserving resources. The company, in line with the guiding theme of the fair, brings the evolution of its Hydraulic Digital Solutions.

Digitalisation, which integrates modelling, simulation and automated code generation to improve efficiency, reduces development time and costs, and ensures system accuracy from design to implementation, plays a key role.

Hydraulic Digital Solutions make it possible to integrate hydraulic and electronic components, optimising functionality and increasing overall system performance.

Some of the Digital Applications that Walvoil offers to the market are on display in Hanover. These include the following functions:

• Electronic management of the variable displacement pump with integrated Displacement Control, Pressure Margin Control and Torque/Power Control functions;
• Energy Recovery Management, a system that allows energy to be recovered and stored during certain machine movements and reused in specific conditions, thus reducing the energy absorbed by the vehicle’s engine;
• Operating Assistance System, a set of advanced features that improve the efficiency of operations. Some examples are Self-Leveling, Trajectory Definition and XY Control, Return to Dig, Electronic Cylinder Cushioning, Payload Estimation, Hitch Control, and Bucket Shaking;

• Digital to Safety, advanced features to increase safety during work operations such as Obstacle Detection, Virtual Walls and Swing Limitation;
• Telemetry Functions to improve data collection and machine management.