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Lightweight steel profile
Welser Profile Austria GmbH

Independent of the type of vehicle, the materials used in manufacture must possess a comprehensive range of characteristics, including stability and strength for the optimum protection and safety of the passengers. In addition, lightness and flexibility are vital to a reduction in fuel consumption and the design-oriented forms of the low environmental-impact models of the future.
According to the findings of the Max Planck Institute laboratories in Duesseldorf, despite being "old", steel has lost none of its capacity as a multi-functional material that can assume a wealth of functions. Indeed, according to Georg Frommeyer, a leading research scientist at the Max Planck Iron Institute, talk of steel being exhausted as a material in its current form is completely unjustified. In fact, it is assumed that even more can be extracted from this proven material and researchers are already at work on the creation of steels with still higher performance. The first steels of the latest generation will be used in new vehicles in around 2009 and provide weight savings of up to 20%.