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Tailored blanks represent a basis for solving current problems in the automotive industry and are thus a product both for the present and for the future. The concept enables new ways of design which allows the manufacture of lighter, simpler and more cost effective automotive components. Tailored blanks are capable of eliminating production steps at stamping and assembly plants of our customers and thus reducing capital investments and expenditures of work.

In connection with the development of a fully galvanized passenger car body to be produced in large-scale series, use was made at Thyssen Stahl AG of laser welding technology to develop a new product for which no production possibilities previously existed anywhere in the world. Apart from the development of the welding technology and the application-related tests performed in parallel, an automatic production installation was designed and built in-house. By the end of 1986, some 400,000 laser-welded galvanized sheets had been successfully processed, chiefly into difficult, deep-drawn parts.