Voestalpine : celebrates 20 years of lightweight design know-how at the world’s largest site for automotive blanks in Linz
August 01, 2018 at 03:48 am EDT
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In addition to employee commitment, flexible reaction to changing market and customer requirements was a decisive factor in the company's success. While initially large automotive parts such as side panels, doors, and flaps were in demand, today most of the high-strength blanks are further processed into smaller, weight-saving components such as side members and cross members, A/B/C pillars, inner door panel components, and floor components.
The strong growth in the lightweight construction sector also secures the future of the Linz automotive location. Thanks to the excellent order situation, EUR 16 million has been invested in a further expansion stage that was recently completed. In a 32,000 square meter production area, it will be possible to produce up to 30 million blanks a year on 14 welding and three punching lines. Revenue is expected to increase to EUR 200 million per year.
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Voestalpine AG is one of the European largest steel makers. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- flat steel (32.6%): hot and cold laminated steel, galvanized steel, sheet metal, etc.;
- long steel (21%): steering systems, rods, non-welded tubes, etc.;
- special steel (18.9%);
- steel components (18.6%);
- other (8.9%).
Net sales break down by market into automotive (31.6%), oil industry (15.4%), rail transportation (10.3%), construction (10.1%), civil and mechanical engineering (10%), household appliances (4.4%), aerospace (2.2%) and other (16%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Austria (7.5%), Europe (54.5%), North America (17.2%), Asia (6.9%), South America (4.6%) and others (9.3%).
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