Hot forming excellence for you

MBW^® – manganese-boron steel for hot forming

The hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated manganese-boron steels in our MBW^® range offer strengths from 500 to 2,000 MPa after press hardening:

• Very high degrees of forming possible with high final strength
• Hot-formed parts also display extremely low springback, making it possible to produce parts with extremely high dimensional accuracy
• Very high potential for weight reduction in safety-relevant structural car parts
• AS-coated MBW^® steels are protected against the typical scaling that occurs during hot forming:
  • this extends the lifetime of the forming dies
  • AS coating has a barrier effect that also provides corrosion protection after hot forming

As a partner for hot forming we offer not only the suitable materials and finishes but also process expertise to ensure efficient production processes and extremely reliable parts.

MBW^® AS Pro – The next generation of hot forming

The innovative alloying concept of the AS Pro coating ensures significantly lower process-related hydrogen absorption during hot forming and provides lasting protection against embrittlement. In short: Reliable part manufacture and minimized failure risk thanks to MBW^® AS Pro.

Prozess know-how

Tailored tempering, an established and patented process for hot forming, makes it possible to integrate different strength and elongation properties into different areas of the same monolithic part.

With decades of experience in hot forming and as a proven partner to the auto industry, we are ideally placed to provide you with expert advice.

Services

In addition to our range of materials and processes, our test center with state-of-the-art hot forming equipment enables us to reproduce the processes used in production on a laboratory scale. In this way we can provide extensive support during vehicle development – from part design to production readiness – through analyses (thermography, forming, simulation, etc.) and troubleshooting. We can also carry out FEM simulations to examine processes, part feasibility and microstructures.

The sum of our services provides a holistic understanding of materials and manufacturing, the ideal basis for you to build an efficient production process.

With decades of experience in hot forming and a systematic focus on the automotive industry we can support you with our portfolio of MBW^® products for hot forming, offering properties that open up great weight reduction potential particularly in safety-relevant structural parts.

You can also benefit from our extensive processing and process know-how to find the optimum process parameters for your individual production situation and make sure everything runs smoothly from the word go.

We would be pleased to advise you over the entire development and production period. Just get in touch with us