“Today, the mass of a typical light-duty vehicles is around 60 percent of steel and independent research show that continued high strength steels material in automotive applications, fastest” Ron Krupitzer, vice president, automotive applications to SMDI, said. “This growth is a direct result of the new steel performance flexibility and numerous benefits including cost, safety, and mass reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and recyclability superior.”
“The values of AHSS is the result of the establishment of a specific steel microstructures in intentional as it produced,” said Krupitzer. “It gives us the ability to manipulate the microstructure, we are able to constantly change our materials to meet the needs of the automotive industry’s growth without increasing costs or require costly changes in automotive production technology.”