Innovative solutions with tubes and profiles reduce costs and weight in automotive manufacturing

The automobile industry may not be the largest sales market for tube manufacturers, but it is indeed an important one. Several metres of tubing or tube-like profiles are found in every road vehicle – mostly invisible from the outside. And just like every other component in a motor vehicle, they are continuously being modified with the goal of optimizing costs as well as reducing weight and improving mileage. The use of “exotic” materials such as carbon fibre, magnesium, etc. is limited, especially in mass-produced vehicles, due to cost restrictions. Instead, aluminium and steel remain the most widely used materials. Particularly the new, high-strength steel grades play an increasingly central role in the reduction of vehicle weight and CO2 emissions, as well as the improvement of mileage.

This progress can be witnessed not only with the automobile manufacturers, but also with the suppliers, who today play a more important role in the total automotive supply chain than ever before.

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Innovative solutions with tubes and tube-like profiles for the automobile industry will play a central role at the next international tube trade fair, Tube. The leading international fair for the tube industry will take place – once again simultaneously with wire – from 4 to 8 April 2016 at the Düsseldorf Exhibition Centre.
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