IDEAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING

High-speed sports cars, limousines, buses, trucks, caravans or special vehicles: Metawell® aluminium sandwich panels demonstrate their advantages in all lines of automobile manufacture.

Passenger vehicles and sports cars
Metawell® aluminium sandwich panels can be used in many ways in the design of passenger vehicles and sports cars: load-bearing high-strength body parts can be realised perfectly, such as crash elements, which must absorb enormous forces through plastic deformation.

With its smooth, even surface and lightness, Metawell® is ideally suited as an underbody for high-speed sports cars. Key advantages already become apparent during manufacture: thanks to its high rigidity, relatively few joining points are required to fix the Metawell® underbody to the body.

Metawell® Aluflex® is especially formable and thus just the right material for manufacturing curved components – such as the rear diffusor.

Trucks, caravans and special vehicles
Metawell® aluminium panels and finishing elements are incorporated in many ways in trucks, caravans and special vehicles. They provide the strength required for driver cab rear walls, roofs, floors and doors without adding unnecessary weight to a vehicle.

With individual fittings made of Metawell light construction components, special vehicles can be configured flexibly for their particular purpose.

Access systems
The numerous advantages of Metawell®aluminium are especially visible in manual foldaway ramps and electrical ramps as well as lift systems. These components are subject not just to extreme point loads (e.g. grit under shoes), but also heavy corrosion (e.g. road salt).

Metawell® aluminium sandwich panels are ideally suited for the heavy stress of access systems in vehicle design due to

  • Primered sheet metal of the highest surface quality for optimum corrosion protection
  • Advantageous orientation of the corrugations according to the principal stress zones
  • Hard wearing aluminium panels hl 10-03-10 hl / H11.5 (primered)
  • Fire safety certification in accordance with directive 95/28/EC

Buses
Materials that are used in bus construction are required to withstand many different types of stress. Metawell® aluminium sandwich panels meet all requirements –whether they involve stable interior fixtures, load bearing body parts or reinforcing elements.

Luggage compartment floors
More stability, longer service life: in tour buses, luggage compartment floors made of Metawell® aluminium panels have proven to be of value, thanks to bending strength and resistance to corrosion, stone chips and moisture. Another advantage compared to traditional wooden floor panels is the significant reduction in weight.

Side panels
Because of its lightness, Metawell® Aluflex® is the ideal reinforcing material for the side panels of tour buses. Formable without a large application of force, Metawell® Aluflex® reinforcing material can be adapted effortlessly to the contour of the exterior skin.

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For over 20 years Metawell® panels have been used successfully in various designs for small to medium production runs as well as for special vehicles in the automotive industry. 

Unique Metawell® Aluflex types help realise form-bonded components such as diffusors, interior equipment and stiffening elements outstandingly.

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