Menu Toyota chooses ultrasonic welding Ultrasonic welding is a smart way to save space in advanced designs. On behalf of Toyota, Rimaster creates customer-unique solutions that provide increased flexibility in development and assembly. "It is really only the imagination that sets the limits," says Sven-Inge Lennartsson who is Design Engineer at Toyota Material Handling Group. Trucks have been manufactured in Mjölby since 1952. The trucks from BT are known all over the world for Swedish engineering and reliability - and since 2000 the business has had a powerful owner in the form of the Toyota Group and Toyota Material Handling Group. Mjölby is home to Northern Europe's largest truck manufacturing unit and the European head office. Rimaster in Rimforsa is only a few miles away. - Rimaster delivers both signal cabling and battery cabling to us and over the years we have developed a close collaboration. That Rimaster can also offer services in the form of ultrasonic welding is a clear advantage, states Sven-Inge Lennartsson. Less volume, more freedom A traditionally designed crimped cable lug builds in both volume and length, which can cause problems if the components are to be packed tightly. - That is why we have chosen to connect the cable directly to a copper plate that is attached with the help of ultrasonic welding. In principle, you can attach to anything in the longitudinal direction of the cable, it is only the imagination that sets limits, Sven-Inge Lennartsson explains. - This is a great advantage if there is a lack of space inside the machine because we get more freedom in connection with construction and a simpler assembly. The production unit in Rimforsa has three machines for ultrasonic welding, says Rimasters Key Account Andreas Kronström: - The price picture for ultrasonic welding does not differ much from crimping with cable lugs. The gains are later in the process in the form of simpler handling as the method is space-efficient and the sheets can be angled and bent in the way you want. Read more: Riview 2-2017 Contact Us follow us Sweden Rimaster AB Industrivägen 14 590 44 Rimforsa, Sweden +46 494 795 00 France Rimaster France Actipark Bat D 662 Rue des Jonchères 69730 Genay, France +33 624 340 049 Poland Rimaster Poland Ul. Kolejowa 4 78-550 Czaplinek, Poland +48 943 753 670 China Rimaster Ningbo Building 7 #, No.1188, Zhongguan Road, Zhenhai Economic Development Zone, Ningbo city, Zhejiang Province, China +86 188 580 114 86 Belgium Rimaster Belgium Halstraat 41 3550 Heusden-Zolder, Belgium +32 470 670 130 Germany Rimaster Germany Cologne +49 2234 219 3226 Serbia Rimaster Serbia Industrial Zone Zmič Glavica bb 35250 Paracin, Serbia +381 646 596 495