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

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.