Skip Navigation Steel thyssenkrupp engineering. tomorrow. together. Home Contact Career Publications e-business English Home Newsroom Events & Dates bauma 2019 bauma 2019 bauma 2019 April 8 - 14, 2019 in Munich bauma 2019 It was lovely to see you! After an eventful week, bauma 2019 came to an end with the traditional “sign-off” from all construction machines at the trade fair grounds. Our high-tech materials are built into many of these machines, and the many in-depth conversations we enjoyed with customers over the course of the trade fair ensure that this will continue to be the case in the future. Together, we will go on to achieve great things. Thank you, Munich, and see you again in three years! CEO Volker Senger Interview High-strength steel perform® 900 and 960 A lovely match: The flags for the bauma trade fair in Munich fluttering against the white-and-blue sky. Prev Next For all those not willing to wait: Here you can already find interesting information about our heavy plate portfolio: The focus of this year's trade fair is on our versatile XAR® family with hardnesses from 300 to 600 HB. We have further improved the processability of the wear-resistant steels. Today, for example, they can be bent better thanks to optimized steel composition. We have also optimized the cutting and welding properties of some of the XAR® grades and increased their toughness, thus protecting them even better against impact loads. The lifespan of the structural components is thus extended. In Munich, we will also be presenting our NA-XTRA®/XABO® high-strength fine-grain structural steels for economical lightweight construction with high load capacity and our perform® high-strength cold-forming steels that optimally combine strength and formability. We are constantly developing our heavy plates for you so that we can offer you exactly what you need for your work. We are at your service - be it with the production of premium steel grades, the research and development of new, complex high-tech materials or with our extensive expertise. We listen, advise and develop for you, relying on intensive cooperation and close interaction. We (together) make (almost) everything possible. All this and much more awaits you at the bauma in Munich. Here, we also present our comprehensive range of services: from resilience tests in our wear laboratory to innovative developments by our research department and support in processing issues through our application technology. Stop by, we are at your service: Munich Exhibition Centre, Hall A6, Booth 448. We are looking forward to your visit! Wear-resistant XAR steel in bucket wheel Bucket wheel excavators don’t only look massive. What they achieve on a daily basis is more than impressive – and using wear-resistant steel really contributes to their performance. Steel grades Bigger, higher, further … our heavy plate steels are always employed when there’s a lot to be moved. Among them: XAR® – particularly wear-resistant; perform® – sturdy yet easily deformable; N-A-XTRA®/XABO® – high-strength and very even. ,,We see bauma as a driver of innovation - nowhere else are so many new ideas presented." Mario Klatt Sales manager of the Heavy Plate Business Unit Once again, the Heavy Plate business unit of thyssenkrupp Steel will be present at bauma this year. For Head of Sales, Mario Klatt, it is an absolute must. “Every three years the international construction machinery industry meets and presents its latest developments. For us it is a good opportunity to meet up with our customers from all over the world. We appreciate this personal interaction and can ask them directly about their requirements from our products and learn about new opportunities in the market and challenges for the future. Only this way can we reliably identify trends, so we can offer products which will be attractive to our customers in the future, too. "Our heavy plate is used in dump trucks to carry 400metric tons of weight and in cranes to extend telescopic arms 100 meters." Volker Senger CEO Business Unit Heavy Plate Heavy plate means heavy duty applications. Come visit us at the bauma in Munich from 8-14 April and see for yourself. thyssenkrupp Steel will be there. Today we caught up with CEO Volker Senger to speak about the trade fair: “We will be exhibiting our entire portfolio and presenting our services. We are always there to help out our customers, whether their applications involve forming specific plates or finding the best way to manufacture entire component groups from heavy plate. Come speak to us!” 2019 is bauma year! The world's leading trade fair for the construction industry will take place in Munich from 8 to 14 April It only takes place every three years, yet – or perhaps for this very reason – bauma is the world's leading industry event for construction machinery, building material machinery, mining machinery, construction vehicles and construction equipment. This is where the highest concentration of innovations is presented. All the leading names in this field will be represented at bauma 2019. The trade fair is considered the most important multiplier in the industry. The venue is the spacious Munich exhibition grounds on the east side of the Bavarian capital. Every three years thousands of exhibitors and hundreds of thousands of visitors meet in Munich-Riem to catch up on the trends of the future. This year these include, for example, alternative propulsion systems and autonomous driving of construction machinery, as well as novel products that advance digitisation in the construction industry. For the first time this year, trade fair participants will even have the opportunity to experience their industry virtually – thanks to virtual and augmented reality. bauma 2019 figures: approx. 614,000 m2 of exhibition space approx. 3,500 exhibitors from 55 countries an expected 600,000 visitors from over 200 countries bauma 2019 facts: April 8 - 14, 2019 Exhibition grounds in Munich-Riem Opening hours: Monday – Friday, 9:30 am to 6:30 pm Saturday, 8:30 am to 6:30 pm Sunday, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Interview CEO Volker Senger Volker Senger, CEO of thyssenkrupp Steel’s Heavy Plate business unit, on the material portfolio and the service portfolio for heavy plate customers. Mr. Senger, heavy plate could actually also be called huge plate, since the plates made in your Business Area are not intended for small-scale projects, it’s fair to say? That’s right, if we’re talking about heavy plate, then it’s always something big. We’re talking here about cruise ships and liquified gas tankers, about storage terminals and wind turbines, about bucket wheel excavators, pipelines, tunnel boring machines, and mobile cranes that extend their telescopic arms up to 100 meters, not to mention dump trucks that can carry loads of up to 400 metric tons. What does heavy plate need to do? Our material must be especially tough and must not rupture or break. Some materials have to be extremely resistant to abrasion, others to sour gases, but they always have to remain formable at the same time. Heavy plate is generally thicker than strip and can be rolled much wider. When being rolled in what is known as a four-high reversing stand, the heavy-plate slabs can be rotated, as well as passed back and forth. This is the best way to alter the structure of the plate. We’re building a city: Concrete mixers are constantly on the move and have to be resistant to abrasion. Which materials rival heavy plate? There are now hot-strip and wide-strip qualities that come very close to the mechanical properties of special heavy-plate steels. We’re talking about high-strength grades with yield strengths of well over 1,000 MPa. It takes great skill to roll these sorts of materials in the hot strip mill because you need to use a special cooling strategy. Heady heights: Modern cranes can extend their powerful arms up to 100 meters. That is precisely what you have achieved with the perform® range, is it not? Correct. We currently offer hot-rolled, high-strength grades with yield strengths of 900 and 960 MPa in the perform® range. They are perfectly suited for use in the construction of mobile and on-board cranes or in the chassis of transport vehicles. Other perform® grades with yield strengths exceeding 1,000 MPa are in development and will most likely be ready for series production this year. Always on hand, be it questions on materials or how to use them thyssenkrupp Steel’s Heavy Plate business unit also offers other services alongside these materials. What are they? Our technical customer support is always on hand to work together with customers to figure out where there is room for improvement. We help with questions about forming certain plates or about optimally manufacturing entire component groups from heavy plate. We have a welding laboratory in which we can inspect the properties of finished components once the customer has processed them. We also have a wear-and-tear laboratory in which we can test the abrasion resistance of our steels, depending on where the steel is intended to be used. What about special requests? In special cases, we also work with our customers on brand new materials that are to be developed for special uses. However, this only happens if the customer is 100 percent certain about it and wants to refine their own portfolio. The Heavy Plate business unit also offers a new online service, doesn’t it? Yes, here we have two online tools – ProWeld and ProWear – that help our customers choose the perfect steel for them. ProWear calculates the amount of wear and tear on a material depending on how it used, and ProWeld provides information on the welding behavior of our heavy-plate steels "At bauma, we will present our entire portfolio" Volker Senger, CEO Business Unit Heavy Plate Wear-resistant and high-strength: the range of materials for every occasion What is so special about XAR®? XAR® is our wear-resistant steel that is used anywhere the material is subject to enormous amounts of resistance, often in combination with high ductility. This is primarily the case in raw material extraction, recycling plants, and mining. Excavator shovels, dump trucks, shredding and crushing plants, ore, and stone filters have to withstand extreme circumstances, for example, when carrying tons of rock and then unloading it from a great height. Standard steel would wear out much too quickly in this situation. We can significantly increase the service life of parts and components with our wear-resistance XAR® grades, substantially shortening repair and maintenance intervals, thus making an important contribution to the economic operation of this type of system. Heavy plate can be a bridge: The connection between two banks lends high-strength steel an almost romantic note. What about your xabo® and N-A-XTRA® grades? They are both high-strength steels in the quarto range that have different yield strengths. N-A-XTRA® refers to plates up to 700 MPa, while xabo® was introduced as a trade mark name for grades higher than 700 MPa up to 1,300 MPa. In the long term, we want to offer all high-strength quarto sheets under the xabo® name. These grades withstand extraordinarily high loads and are used in crane construction or for longitudinal and cross beams of large trucks. Apart from their high yield strength, what else makes the hot-rolled perform® plates stand out?\ They are incredibly good for cold forming. This property is especially important in combination with high levels of strength. This allows us to make a significant contribution to lightweight construction, and the lower fuel consumption helps to reduce CO2 emissions from the heavy-duty fleets. In comparison to traditional quarto plates, reduced thickness tolerances can continue to be guaranteed and an improved surface can be achieved, which leads to a significantly better paint finish quality. Giddy heights: A mobile crane with a driver’s cab is used in a wide variety of different situations, such as a fire service rescue operation or in the day-to-day work of a window cleaner. © Getty Images There is another addition at Heavy Plate alongside the new perform®grades 900 and 960 MPa, right? Yes, we have a new location in Belgium, where the acquisition of a so-called hot strip cut-to-length plant means we can now roll high-strength and ultra-high-strength strips – up to a strength of 1,300 MPa, in fact. It is an extremely challenging undertaking, and in Europe there are very few plants that can do that. This means our manufacturing site in Antwerp will play a key role when it comes to the production of the high-strength strips in the perform® family and the wear-resistant XAR® family, which feature excellent flatness and absence from stress. We are ideally positioned to meet the future demands of our customers with attractive products. Follow us on our social media and stay up to date: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. XAR® Wear-resistant steel Heavy plate The entire portfolio at a glance High-strength steel perform® Contact Mario Klatt Head of Sales Telephone: +49 203 52 75617 Send email Dr. Axel Grüneklee Head of Sales Ballistic Steel / Technical Customer Service Telephone: +49 203 5275503 Fax: +49 (0)203 52-75653 Send email XAR® XAR® wear-resistant steels combine good processing properties with excellent wear resistance and, thanks to their extreme hardness and toughness, last longer than conventional structural steels. Product details N-A-XTRA®/XABO® In many constructions, the deployment of NA-XTRA® and XABO® high-strength special structural steels enables a reduction in sheet thickness and thus a reduction in material and processing costs as well as operating costs. Product details perform® The steel grades of the perform® series have an excellent property profile with good cold formability, weldability and toughness. Best prerequisites for folding and bending with very small radii. Product details To the top Steel Glossary Plant Tours Locations Profile Information for neighbors thyssenkrupp AG thyssenkrupp.com website Instagram Facebook Youtube LinkedIn thyssenkrupp Steel Europe © 2021 Sitemap Imprint Gender Clause Data Protection & Legal Notes Share