October 15-17, 2024 at Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida
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Tuesday Oct 15 9 AM — 5 PM
Wednesday Oct 16 9 AM — 5 PM
Thursday Oct 17 9 AM — 4 PM

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Orange County Convention Center

9800 International Drive
Orlando, Florida 32819

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North America's largest metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing event heads to Orange County Convention Center in October 2024. FABTECH provides a convenient "one stop shop" venue where you can meet with world-class suppliers, see the latest industry products and developments, and find the tools to improve productivity, increase profits and discover new solutions to all of your metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing needs.

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Advanced High-Strength Steel Growth in Automotive Applications and Associated Formability Challenges

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By David Anderson on on
As steel continues to increase its current grade portfolio by introducing stronger more ductile automotive grades, automakers are taking note. The future of vehicle weight reduction does not require changing to alternate material systems and a complete overhaul of the existing manufacturing infrastructure. In fact, with steel, automakers are realizing they are able to avoid these major expenditures and, instead, allocate the funds towards increasing the efficiency of propulsion systems, improving the capacity of onboard energy storage systems and / or enhancing customer-facing technologies. As the longstanding material of choice in the automotive industry, steel offers a suite of grades allowing automotive engineers and designers the ability to leverage the right grade in the right place to achieve crash energy absorption, excellent strength and durability and lower vehicle mass. All without compromising interior spaciousness or aggressive exterior styling cues. Steel suppliers move with the same sense of urgency as their automotive customers. As a result, the steel industry works closely with  automakers and their supply base worldwide through consortia and partnerships to ensure key technical challenges, such as forming and joining, tool design and surface treatments, other manufacturing equipment limitations and necessary updates are identified, addressed and validated to facilitate seamless and timely implementation and ensure quality executions with high confidence. Steel is the only automotive lightweighting material that can reduce vehicle mass as well as its overall greenhouse gas footprint. The  CO2e generated per 1 kg of steel production is 4 to 5 times less than  the CO2e generated per 1 kg of aluminum production and 11 times less than that for carbon fiber. Join our presentation at FABTECH to learn more about the rapid growth of AHSS grades in automotive design and some examples of recent applications highlighting the automakers’ ability to successfully lightweight with steel.
Register to catch the full presentation at FABTECH in Session F89: Advanced Metals & Materials, room N205-N206 Friday, Nov. 18 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Session Details  

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