Contract manufacturing
In addition to our semi-finished products we offer toll work in nearly all areas of our production operations - melting and remelting, hot and cold rolling and a wide range of plant services involving finishing work.
In the field of hire work, we welcome inquiries about materials outside our own semi-finished product lines, e.g. stainless steels, copper materials or other metal products. Talk it over with us!
Melting and casting (slab, ingot, continuous casting)
- VIM, VAR and ESR
- Induction furnace, EAF/VOD/VLF
Toll Forging
Our modern forging press works with a pressing/compression force of up to 4,500 tons and has two rail-mounted manipulators.
In particular, our forging process has the following possibilities:
- Previous forming simulation based on the finite element method (FEM)
- Real-time recording of the forging process
- Documentation of all data on movements and processes (fingerprinting of very forging) from receipt of the billet to dispatch of the forging to customers
- We are certified to AS9100/EN9100 and ISO 9001 and NADCAP for our furnaces and laboratories
Some basic information:
- 4-column press 45MN (SMS)
- Max. weight 18 t (reversing with 2 manipulators) resp. 60 t (1 manipulator)
- 60 t rotary/lift table , 80 t indoor crane
- Shapes such as billets, rods, (stepped) shafts, discs or special shapes
- Lengths up to 14 m
- Diameter up to 800 mm
- Blank diameter up to 2,000 mm (depending on thickness)
- Wide range of materials such as C-steels, tool steels, RSH, nickel-based alloys, titanium, copper, special alloys, etc.
- A large number of chamber and bogie hearth furnaces (max. length 6 or 7 m)
- Open-die forging
We offer our customers toll forging for the following products:
- Shafts
- Forged discs
- Heavy forged plates
- Steel rolls
Ingot/slab rolling mill
VDM Metals operates an ingot/slab rolling mill that is capable of hot-rolling ingots of steel (non-alloy and alloyed), special stainless steels, nickel alloys and other non-ferrous metals into flat slabs in thicknesses of 70-500 mm. The mill is capable of working ingots weighing up to 25 tons with dimensions of 600 mm to 1,800 mm (width).
Four-high hot rolling mill
We can hot roll sheets with thicknesses > 3 mm on our four-high mill with finished widths of up to 2,500 mm and lengths up to 12,000 mm. We specialize in the working of small plates. We also provide a wide variety of materials covering a very broad range of experience. We are able to offer:
- Cutting of slabs
- Rolling
- Heat treatment
- Levelling/pickling/cutting
Cold working
- Cold rolling of strip
- Cold rolling of sheets with widths up to 2,600 mm
- Drawing of wires and rounded products (e.g. cold drawn tubes)
Finishing of long and flat products
- Mechanical working (peeling, turning, grinding)
- Heat treatment
- Descaling, shot-blasting and pickling of round and flat products
- Testing services
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