InfraStructures - November 2015 - SSAB Shares Expertise on Lightweight Trailer Design with Top Trailer Manufacturers

SSAB Shares Expertise on Lightweight Trailer Design
with Top Trailer Manufacturers

Last month, a group of 45 trailer and heavy equipment manufacturers attended a technical seminar covering new design concepts and best practices for working with advanced high strength steel including its recently launched Strenx™ Performance Steel. The seminar, hosted by SSAB in Davenport, Iowa, focused on the benefits of using high strength steel in trailer chassis and structural components as well as educating customers on weight-saving opportunities that can be achieved by using the new Strenx structural steel launched earlier this year.

“SSAB provides technical seminars as a part of our strategy to offer increased value to our customers and the market,” said Ben Kowing, director of Marketing and Technical Support for SSAB. “Our goal is to help our customers make optimum use of our steels so their products are more competitive.”

Technical experts and engineering specialists in the areas of welding, fatigue, design, forming, and production from SSAB’s Knowledge Service Center in Sweden and R&D Facility in North America, shared their expertise with attendees.

Among the topics covered during the seminar were new trailer designs, success cases, design optimization, and a detailed discussion about SSAB’s Strenx Performance Steel.

“In the never ending battle for improved performance, less weight plays a vital part,” said Michael Schmidt, Area technical manager for SSAB. “Less weight allows for trucks with more payload, cranes that reach farther, trailers that can haul more and many other applications that need to be light and strong. And that’s the beauty of Strenx.”

“We’re working on a frameless trailer and need to figure a way to make it lighter,” said Dustin Scholz, design engineer for TBEI, a leading truck body manufacturer in the U.S. “We had attended SSAB’s Dump Body seminar a few years ago and the information provided was great. We used that information to develop lighter weight dump bodies to compete with aluminum products thereby offering a steel body which is stronger, and less expensive, than a comparable aluminum unit. We have achieved this goal and our Ox Chisholm Ultralight product is now being used in the field and feedback from customers indicates that this design exceeds expectations.”

Source: SSAB Enterprises, LLC

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