Directors of Voestalpine Metal Forming and Voestalpine Krems inaugurating the new roll forming line on 25 February 2016 in Krems, Austria; from left: Jürgen Lechfellner, Günther Felderer, Peter Schwab, Dirk Mahnke
Voestalpine employs about 2,300 people at seven production companies from all four divisions of Voestalpine group in the Lower Austria province, generating revenues amounting to almost 560 million euros in the business year 2014/15. The Metal Forming division of Voestalpine is headquartered in the town of
Voestalpine Krems GmbH, Krems-Lerchenfeld, Austria Contact: www.voestalpine.com/krems E-mail: marketing.krems@voestalpine.com Seuthe GmbH, Hemer, Germany Contact: www.seuthe.com E-mail: sales@seuthe.com
Krems. Here, Europe’s most advanced special roll forming line went into operation at the end of February 2016. The new line will be used to manufacture tube products including double laser welded special tubes for the commercial vehicles industry, and welded special tubes for the automotive industry. It can also be used for products with complex and variable hole patterns for the construction industry.
Intelligent drive technology meets energy-saving hydraulics The 100-metres-long roll forming line was jointly developed by Voestalpine Krems and the German plant
manufacturer Seuthe, a company of Asmag group. The roll forming line features traction control, individual drives and a clutch system for automatic coupling and decoupling. Most important for Voestalpine is the traction control. It prevents the steel strip from slipping, providing for a higher production speed and higher quality. And it allows the holes in highly complex profiles to be punched with an accuracy of one tenth of a millimetre. To satisfy the customer’s exacting requirements, Seuthe developed a new drive concept and designed a process that allowed fully automatic drive coupling with and decoupling from the roller shafts. Since all roller shafts MPT International 2 / 2016