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The focus is on cost-effective, holistic and systematic lightweight construction with optimally utilised materials.
We support our customers with the right technology for every technical and economic challenge. Crash-safe, material-optimised and CO₂-reduced – we offer the solution.
What you can expect from us:
Advanced, validated body-in-white and chassis solutions with CO₂-reduced steels, developed in collaboration with leading steel manufacturers
Innovative manufacturing process with new steel grades – for improved crash performance with lower material usage
The optimal solution for every requirement: individually tailored manufacturing technologies and material applications
In the event of an accident, our structural components play a decisive role in protecting the occupants. With our body-in-white solutions, we ensure safe mobility, above all thanks to the high strength of special steels.
We use high-strength steels for components where crash safety requirements are particularly high. Using partial press hardening technology, we are able to manufacture steel products with different strength ranges. This improves crash safety and, by reducing the weight of the car body, leads to fuel savings and lower emissions during vehicle operation.
Quite simple in principle: less material means less weight, therefore less fuel consumption and ultimately less impact on the environment. That is why our focus is on the development of cost-effective, safety-relevant components in lightweight construction for the vehicles of the future. To manufacture our products, we use special steel grades that make a decisive contribution to reducing the weight of a component through special forming processes, alone or in combination with aluminum or plastic.
Experienced technicians and engineers at our development centers on three continents are continuously working to improve our processes and products. We develop innovative concepts and technologies for complex metal structural components and offer our customers worldwide solutions for their specific requirements. From initial design concepts and finite element calculations to near-series prototypes with comprehensive product testing and final quality testing, we accompany projects from the very beginning – reliably and competently.
Long-term success in the manufacture of cold- or hot-formed components depends largely on the optimal design and quality of the tools. Modern toolmaking in Germany and Poland with efficient structures and synchronized, clocked production therefore complements KIRCHHOFF Automotive's service portfolio. The focus is on the construction of prototype, single, progressive, and transfer tools for cold- and hot-formed complex components for the automotive industry according to customer requirements.
The platform strategies of the major automobile manufacturers require global planning and production. For this purpose, we use a so-called Product Lifecycle Management tool, which enables us to optimally plan the use and utilization of existing plants, machines and equipment. This system guarantees uniform manufacturing and production standards worldwide as well as simultaneous information and project management. Products such as crash management systems, front end frames and cross members are assembled in JIT plants located in close proximity to customers.
We manufacture complex sheet metal parts with wall thicknesses of 0.6 to 12 mm on modern servo and transfer presses with a pressing force of 80 to 2,500 t. We use state-of-the-art steel and aluminum materials. With the latest hotforming lines, we are able to manufacture products from high-strength steels with strengths of up to 2,000 MPa. With partial tempering, we offer our customers the manufacture of components with specifically different strength ranges – ideal for crash-relevant applications in the passenger cell. This results in tailor-made components that optimally combine high safety and cost-effectiveness.
We use established thermal processes such as spot welding and arc welding to join our components. Cold joining processes and laser welding are also increasingly being used. In laser welding technology, we primarily use remote welding. This enables us to produce low distortion welded joints in the thinnest of materials, often combined with online welding monitoring. Cold joining processes are particularly suitable for combining different materials in modern car body construction (multi-material solutions).
To ensure optimum protection for our products against impacts, scratches, and corrosion, we primarily rely on high-quality cathodic dip coating (CDP). For the most demanding requirements, such as car chassis parts, additional corrosion protection measures such as powder coating and waxing are applied individually or in combination after CDP. To save our customers the time-consuming task of joining the necessary assembly seals, we apply seals to components during production using a robot-controlled foam bead.
We use modern CNC machining centers to process extruded aluminum profiles. This enables us to produce complex finished geometries with tight tolerances. We achieve tight tolerances for press-hardened components by using 3D laser trimming. We use high-precision portal laser systems with a laser power of up to 6 kW.
We build more than components. We build solutions.
The whole is often greater than the sum of its parts. This is why we supply our customers not only with individual parts but with complex components as well.
For the passenger car market, we produce front-end frames, bumper systems, cross car beams, side and cross members, and floor assemblies.
For the commercial vehicle market, our product portfolio includes axle housings, cross members, front underride protection, and tank brackets.
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