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SSAB Shares Expertise on Benefits of
With a goal of helping customers make stronger, lighter and more sustainable products, SSAB recently hosted a complimentary workshop at its state of the art Research and Development facility in Montpelier, Iowa. Engineers from large dump body manufacturers to small start-up companies attended the seminar entitled “Benefits of Using Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) in Tipper/Dump Bodies.” Technical experts and engineering specialists in the areas of welding, bending, fatigue, design, forming, production and wear from SSAB’s Knowledge Service Center in Sweden and R&D facility in North America, shared their global expertise with attendees at the two-day seminar. Among the topics covered at the workshop were dump body success stories, new dump body designs, design optimization, along with a discussion about SSAB’s proprietary Production Efficiency Tool and Design Calc Software which provide an estimate of new design results and production efficiencies using AHSS One of the designs that SSAB has constructed—called the Arc Design—is relatively new to the market. The key feature of the design is a convex-formed tipper bottom made of Hardox wear plate, which absorbs heavy loads, increases durability and reduces the tipper weight. “With the Arc Design, tippers can now be manufactured that are 30 to 50 percent lighter, more durable, and able to tip backwards or to the side—all while carrying nearly as much volume as a traditional tipper,” said Bo Lindstrom, senior design specialist, SSAB. In addition to the presentations, attendees were also given a tour of the steel mill and R&D facility including a live welding demonstration and discussion on optimizing welds. SSAB will be hosting this workshop again on September 10 - 11, 2013. If you are a dump body manufacturer interested in attending this workshop, please contact Ursula Egenhofer at 412-230-1635 or ursula.egenhofer@ssab.com.
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