Automotive applications

The drive for ever-greater fuel efficiency brings a world of new challenges for automotive engineers to overcome. As well as combining steel with lighter materials such as aluminium and magnesium, increasingly complex geometries are required to improve aerodynamic performance, increase powertrain efficiency and support alternative fuels.

Bmax technology offers an answer to many of these manufacturing challenges. Guaranteeing reduced component weight and size, lower production costs, lower part failure rate and longer life expectancy, our systems offer a huge range of automotive applications.

• Engine cradles (e.g. welding hydroformed aluminium to carbon steel)
• Earth connectors carbon steel to produce hybrid assemblies)
• Chassis parts
• Suspension arms
• Subframes
• Anti-roll bars
• Support legs (e.g. wheel carriers and dampers)
• Twist beams
• Multi-link rear suspensions
• Suspension parts
• Silent blocks (e.g. crimping the cast aluminium body to hold the rubber absorber)
• Heads of shock absorbers
• Spring shafts
• Steering wheel armatures
• HP hydraulic brake pipes
• Rims
• Roll bars
• Struts

• Windshield cross beams (e.g. welding components to make a hybrid steel-aluminium structure)
• Space frames (e.g. welding the space frame connections)
• Door and side panels
• Frame parts and assemblies
• Body parts assemblies
• Body construction elements
• Body frame components
• Bearing structures
• Engine supports
• Engine mounts
• Rectangular joints
• Opening mechanisms (e.g. closures, hinges, locks and reinforcements)
• Closures
• Side rails
• Bumper reinforcements
• Steering linkages
• Steering column axle holders
• Metal sheets on sandwiches

• Accumulators (e.g. welding the puck to the can)
• Receivers-dryers (e.g. welding the puck to the can)
• Receivers-dehydrators
• Condensers
• Evaporators
• Cooler tubes
• Hybrid tubes
• Bi-metallic tubes
• HVAC filters
• HVAC tubes and tube connections
• Heat-exchangers
• T-joints