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ThyssenKrupp Schulte Opens New Center in Bielefeld
05/20/2010 - ThyssenKrupp Schulte GmbH has opened a state-of-the-art flame cutting center that will produce finished parts tailored to customer requirements, mainly from structural steels, boiler plate, wear-resistant steels and special structural steels up to grade S 960 QL.
ThyssenKrupp Schulte GmbH has opened a state-of-the-art flame cutting center in Bielefeld. The new facility will produce finished parts tailored exactly to customer requirements, mainly from structural steels, boiler plate, wear-resistant steels and special structural steels up to grade S 960 QL.
Comprising one new building and two redeveloped existing buildings, the new flame cutting center has a maximum annual capacity of 22,000 tons. It is equipped with three gas cutting and three plasma cutting machines with three finishing bays and a blasting unit, and its main customers are structural steel fabricators, equipment manufacturers, producers of agricultural machinery, truck manufacturers and the offshore sector.
The Bielefeld flame cutting center offers a particularly wide range of processing capabilities to support increasing demand from customers for finished parts that they can fit directly in their assembly lines.
One important factor in this capability, particularly with heavier plate, is weld preparation. The new center is capable of (simple) linear grinding or cutting and (complex) robotic contour cutting as well as straightening and roll bending. Flame-cut blanks can also be bent, drilled or milled according to customer requirements. As a final step the parts undergo surface treatment in a specially designed blasting machine.
The new center also has facilities for repair welding.
Düsseldorf-headquartered ThyssenKrupp Schulte GmbH, one of Germany’s leading stockholding distributors, offers an extensive range of products including rolled steel, stainless steel, steel specialties and nonferrous metals. Materials are supplied as flat products, profiles or tubes either ex-stock or custom fabricated. This is backed by a wide range of services extending from custom materials and just-in-time delivery to supply chain management. ThyssenKrupp Schulte has over 30 branches in Germany, including ThyssenKrupp Magnettechnik in Gelsenkirchen, and also has close links with 250 bases in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the American continent
