All Press and stamping articles – Page 3
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VoiceMulti Part Integration: Optimising vehicle structures
Reducing materials use and vehicle weight are key considerations for OEMs. ArcelorMittal discusses its new Multi Part Integration concept and how this can simplify the vehicle production process
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WebinarWatch recording: Multi Part Integration, a new approach for simplified and optimized body structures using breakthrough laser welded blanks & patch solutions
Watch this session to discover the groundbreaking Multi Parts Integration concept developed by ArcelorMittal Global R&D and Tailored Blanks. Multi Part Integration (MPI) is designed to incorporate many parts into one laser welded blank (LWB). MPI uses press hardenable steels (PHS) and hot stamping LWB technology to create the single ...
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NewsGM to invest $46 million in Parma metal stamping plant
General Motors has unveiled plans to invest over $46m at its Parma, Ohio, metal stamping operation to expand equipment upgrades and lay the foundation for the facility to support future product programs.
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ArticleHeavy-duty lightweighting
The heavy-duty, commercial vehicle sector faces the same challenges in terms of reducing its environmental footprint and is similarly developing alternative fuel vehicles. SSAB discusses how truck OEMs can leverage the car maker’s lightweighting lessons
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ArticleVolvo Trucks buys Chinese manufacturing site to expand heavy duty truck manufacturing
As part of the company’s broader plans to develop global reach, Volvo has acquired JMC Heavy Duty Vehicle to produce and sell more heavy-duty trucks in China.
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ArticleCost and opportunity: experts unveil the contradictions at the core of lightweighting EVs
Lightweighting has become one of the most important features when it comes to designing EVs. As calls for more sustainable production practices become louder, creators are looking at new innovative ways to lighten the load.
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ArticleLightweighting the EV is a challenge to celebrate
There is a new impetus to save weight as vehicles become powered by electric powertrains. Reducing the weight of a vehicle by optimising the mix of materials and the application in design is now a key focus.
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ArticleWatch: Vehicle lightweighting rises to the top of the agenda for designers and engineers
This livestream investigates how designers and engineers at Ford, Gestamp and key suppliers are using innovative materials and creating lightweight architectures, including for models like the Ford F-150 Lightning and Maverick compact truck.
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WebinarWatch webinar: S-in motion® smart steel solutions for PHEV
Watch this session to discover how ArcelorMittal’s new S-in motion® customizable steel solutions for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) enable carmakers to meet their sustainability and design challenges at the most affordable cost, with special focus on the IIHS side impact crash requirements and the H-Frame
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ArticleVW cuts transport emissions by expanding Zwickau press shop
Volkswagen’s electric vehicle (EV) assembly plant in Zwickau, Germany, has taken another step into sustainable manufacturing by investing €74m ($95m) to expand its press shop.
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NewsFord to build all-electric LCV at Craiova
Following a $300m investment the new all-electric model is planned to launch in 2024 with Craiova following the Ford Cologne Electrified Vehicle Centre in Germany and Ford Otosan’s Kocaeli plant in Turkey to build all-electric vehicles
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NewsEast Liberty Auto plant starts production of new Acura MDX
The fourth-generation MDX, has been designed, developed and manufactured by a team of associates in Ohio and California, and is underpinned by an all-new light truck platform
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ArticleAudi introduces closed-loop systems for aluminium, wastewater and plastic
Audi has detailed how it is introducing closed-loop systems to its plants as part of its goal to make all its five plants carbon-neutral by 2025. This includes aluminium, wastewater and a pilot project for chemical recycling of plastics.
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ArticleTaking shape: Forming aluminium
AMS spoke to two leading press line suppliers to get some insight into process challenges and solutions for this material
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ArticleChinese carmaker Haval signs a major investment contract in Russia
Chinese carmaker Haval has signed a special investment contract worth 42.4 billion rubles ($650m) to expand the car plant it opened in Uzlovaya last year and build a components plant to localise the supply of core parts, including engines, transmissions, electronic control modules, and vehicle control systems
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ArticleToyota pursues dip-free plating technology innovation
The new, more efficient and compact process reduces waste in plating solution during electronic component production
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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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ArticleProof of concept: LA-based start-up Canoo gets production ready
AMS gets under the skin of Canoo’s EV concept to discover how the design became a production ready vehicle
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ArticleCoronavirus live blog: OEMs set resumption timelines and health protection regimes
As OEMs manage temporary plant shutdowns across their manufacturing networks, follow our updates on the latest idling and resumption of production … UPDATE 20 May JLR Assembly workers give their reaction as Jaguar Land Rover’s Solihull plant reopens under new social distancing measuresFollowing a two-month shutdown prompted by the ...
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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