Right weighting your machines for optimal performance, efficiency and sustainability
What’s your challenge? Today’s construction and handling equipment manufacturers are facing some exciting opportunities.
Whether you're making earthmoving and road building machinery, mining equipment, cranes or forklift trucks, you'll have an ongoing focus on:
- Making your machines and production processes more sustainable
- Improving the efficiency of your machines and production processes
- Optimising payloads – to help your customers beat the competition
- 'Right' weighting - high-strength steels combined with intelligent design offer significant opportunities to reduce weight in the right places in your vehicle.
Predictable high quality, reliable deliveries and support from technical experts
We work hard to understand your issues and challenges. We know that the choice and application of steel can has a big impact on fuel efficiency and manoeuvrability.
We offer predictable steel quality for efficient processing and all benefits of a local supplier who understands your needs, responds fast and delivers on time. It is vital that you start with the right ingredients:
- Availability of a wide range of steel products to use in your sustainable machinery, from a low emission footprint steel supplier
- For fast laser cutting and precise bending operations you want a highly consistent quality consisting of the right steel chemistry, surface appearance and tight dimensional tolerances
- For any production challenges our team understands your technical needs and processing requirements. We offer decades of experience and continue to use our wide knowledge base and expertise to develop products and services to meet those needs
- For continuous production, we offer reliable delivery and a pro-active customer service team to plan your next on time delivery
These ingredients give you the opportunity to optimise your operations, strengthen your customer base, expand your product range, target new and demanding end user applications – and grow your business.
Made to last
During construction, road building and mining activities your machines need to operate at a constant pace transporting the largest possible loads, getting the work done on time.
To optimise your machines, choosing wear resistant steel means your machines parts last longer and weight is reduced compared to using high strength steel material.
For wear parts and aftermarket spare parts our Valast wear resistant steel (Valast® 450) offers the lifetime wear protection needed for your machines. Valast is available up to 2000mm wide ensuring efficient nesting and laser cutting of your parts. The high surface quality of Valast helps to create the premium look and appearance of your vehicle in the showroom.
For parts that need shaping and heat treatment steps before getting their wear properties we offer a range of boron manganese products too.
Strong and resilient machines
For chassis and structural parts in construction, mining, and road building machinery choosing high-strength steels helps to right weight and uphold machine performance.
Right weighting means taking out weight and improving fuel efficiency where possible, without compromising on equipment performance. Our engineers provide advice on how to achieve this by choosing the needed steel material (grade, strength, thickness) in the right location, using the right adhesion or forming processes, for the optimal functionality.
Use our hot-rolled Ympress® (S355MC-S960MC) sheet products, our tubular hot formed Celsius® (355-460 MPa) or our tubular cold formed Hybox® TT (355-700 MPa), all with tight tolerances that go beyond the European standards (half the dimensional tolerances) to enable trouble-free, automated production.
Next to excellent laser cutting and welding properties, our Ympress (S355MC-S700MC) sheet products are available up to 2050mm width and 25mm gauge and with excellent performance under cold conditions, ensuring the toughest parts of your machines withhold the challenges, even under extreme conditions.
Reaching for great heights
For equipment designed for heavy lifting we offer our high strength Ympress (S500MC - S960MC), cold formed Hybox TT (355-700MH) and hot formed Celsius (355-460 NH) steels.
Using ultra high-strength steel allows cranes, scissor lifts, and telehandlers to achieve a spectacular reach and lift heavy payloads.
Our product solutions
We offer a wide range of hot-rolled and tubular products for your construction equipment. Our products are developed to ensure you can focus on your business, while your machines operate reliable based on our steels.
Our high-strength Ympress, Hybox TT, Celsius and our high performance XPF® products deliver the reach, stiffness, strength and weldability needed for reliable performance and cost-effective manufacturing.
Your machines and spare parts last during heavy wear and tear with our boron manganese and Valast wear resistant steels.
Our material experts are there to support the deployment of our products in your specific application area. For more information contact our construction equipment experts.
A cost-effective supply chain
From our coastal steel making sites in the Netherlands and in the UK we deploy a global transport infrastructure that allows us to supply cost-effectively into every part of the world. Our service centre locations are strategically placed throughout Europe to efficiently supply you according to your demands. Our supply chain capabilities include:
- cutting and slitting wide coil up to 25mm and 2050mm
- tailored stock keeping solutions for OEMs and processors
- a wide tubular hollow section product offering
- processed parts via our profiling centre.
Building more efficient and effective machines
Our engineering experts have helped to improve the design of a range of different types of construction equipment machines. They are open to offer design advice on how our steel solutions can help you in improving your equipment with even tougher, safer, longer lasting vehicles. Our experts also advice on how our steel products help to reduce CO2 footprint with more fuel-efficient vehicles and a more efficient production.
For more information contact our advanced engineering support team.
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