Steel – Page 4
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VoiceFossil-free steel, already in 2026
Sometime after 2025, the first car featuring steel components will be produced via a fossil-free production process. What automakers and Tier 1 suppliers need to know now
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ArticleWatch: Strategies for Greener Production (EP.1)
This AMS Livestream Hour episode discusses how automotive manufacturers are making their plants and value chains more sustainable through new processes and technology, with special guests including Scania and ArcelorMittal. Watch and download slides.
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ArticleAMS Environment and Sustainability 2020 – Greener production, battery recycling, decarbonising materials and more
For the automotive industry environmental sustainability is not just important for the vehicles they produce, it is also a key factor in the production process. This edition of AMS takes a close look at sustainable production, utilising recycled materials and renewable energy sources
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PodcastMaking steel sustainable
A key challenge for automotive materials producers is to lower the carbon footprint in the production process to ensure this contributes to meeting Paris Agreement targets.
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ArticleWatch: The latest technology from Coherent solves your most challenging welding tasks in e-mobility battery manufacturing
A major leap in fiber laser welding technology that can significantly improve your productions processes.
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VoiceSmart steel solutions for BEV body-in-white
As the automotive manufacturing industry adapts during fast-changing times, steel has a major role to play
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ArticleE-mobility needs steel
A new report from ArcelorMittal has identified the benefits in performance and cost that steel can bring to the EV production challenge
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ArticleFuture-proof steel for mobility - what is future proof?
Future-proofing your life cycle assesments
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ArticleSteel makes the case as the mainstay material for vehicles
With OEMs demanding vehicle-structure materials that are low in mass, crash-protective and economic to use, steel grades stay true to form
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ArticleSteelmakers keen to press home the BEV advantage
Throughout the age of the mass-produced automobile, steel has been the principal material of choice for vehicle structures. Will it maintain its dominance as carmakers pursue new mobility concepts?
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ArticleStrong, light and formable, stainless steel re-enters the material mix
Helsinki-based Outokumpu says stainless steels are ideal for lightweight, safety-critical structural parts and have put it to use in the series production of EV battery enclosures
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ArticleMaterial changes guide the new additive manufacturing routes
Additive manufacturing is offering not only a wider range of application techniques but also materials with polymers now joined by metals and even ceramics
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ArticleSteel stays the distance
SSAB’s Thomas Müller explains how new high-strength and ultra-high-strength steels can assist OEMs in cost-effectively improving the range of electric vehicles
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ArticleE-mobility needs steel
A new report from ArcelorMittal has identified the benefits in performance and cost that steel can bring to the EV production challenge
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Articlethyssenkrupp invests in advanced forging line
Germany - thyssenkrupp will make front axles for trucks and crankshafts on the new forging line
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ArticleStrong bonds
James Bakewell looks at the challenges of joining new grades of advanced and ultra-high strength steels in the latest multi-material vehicle structures
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ArticleTaking shape
The automotive sector has seen a rapid increase in the use of high strength steel grades. But the materials provide a challenge for manufacturing engineers in the forming process
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ArticleReal clean steel
With vehicle-makers and tier suppliers wanting greater performance from less material weight, Ovako’s engineering steels seem a good fit. Nick Holt visits its production facility at Hofors in Sweden to find out more
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ArticleCool processes
Across measures of quality, performance and cost Chemetall discusses how reactive oils can offer advantages in the cold-drawn, precision steel tube production process High-strength precision steel tubes are the material of choice when components must withstand high levels of stress. These steel tubes not only ensure the ...
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ArticlePressing matters
Our vehicles have all faced hazards at one time or another, from potholes in the road to rocks or broken glass. But what about protection when the hazards are ballistic threats to the safety of civil servants or service men and women? As a specialist for custom automobile protection solutions, ...