Tailor Welded Blanks for Highest Customer Demands

• Engineering customer-specific, lightweight construction solutions with tailor welded blanks, patchwork blanks, stamped blanks
• Support along the customer process chain
• Press-fitting logistics services

Functional enhancement:

• Improved crash properties
• High stiffness
• Good formability

Weight savings / lightweight construction:

• Reduced sheet thickness
• Function integration

Cost-effectiveness:

• Optimized material use
• Optimal nesting of the blanks, reduction of the BIW processes

Tailored blanks are used to replace reinforcements in connection with simple or intermediate forming conditions.

Examples: main floor, longitudinal beam, side beam, side walls, etc.

Patchwork blanks are utilized where, due to local constraints, higher material requirements are imposed. This is also expedient in combination with tailored blanks.

Examples: reinforcement of door sill, rear end part, side wall A-pillar, etc.