Supporting the road towards more sustainable transportation
Manufacturers of transport equipment face a wide variety of challenges, including safety, vehicle light weighting, product appearance and production efficiency.
Steel plays a vital role in ensuring the safety of truck drivers and other traffic users. And steel can play a key role in lightweighing vehicles to reduce the environmental impact.
You'll find examples here of where Tata Steel is providing product and service solutions for trucks, buses, trailers, ships and rail wagons.
Proactive support on design and offering reliability on execution
Today’s vehicles need to be lighter, stronger and more sustainable. With our steel expertise and product portfolio, we help manufacturers to achieve these requirements and improve safety and fuel efficiency.
We have invested in creating advanced steel solutions that can optimise functionality without sacrificing safety or aesthetics.
At Tata Steel we understand the design challenges that come with lightweighting and we have the expertise to help by reviewing your truck and trailer components and find solutions that improve the performance of your vehicles.
We offer both predictable steel quality for efficient processing and all the benefits of a local supplier who understands your needs, responds fast and delivers on time. It is vital that you start with the right ingredients:
- for pressing parts, roll forming, fast laser cutting and precise bending operations you need a highly consistent quality with the right steel chemistry, surface appearance and tight dimensional tolerances
- for any production challenges our team understands your technical needs and processing requirements. We offer decades of co-design experience and continue to use our wide knowledge base and expertise to develop products and services to meet your needs
- to ensure continuous operation of production, we offer reliable delivery and a proactive customer service team to plan your next on time delivery
- to ensure a sustainable future our products are produced at efficient steel sites, minimising emissions needed to produce and transport material.
Supporting the reduction of emissions, while increasing safety
Truck and bus chassis
For truck chassis we have high-strength lightweighting solutions such as Ympress® or XPF® steel, which are excellent for roll forming longitudinal beams. For safety impact zones Tata Steel offers AHSS, UHSS, dual phase or complex phase products designed to absorb energy. Our Hybox® TT high-strength tubes are used as rear bumper beams to protect against rear impact. Leading bus companies use our structural hollow sections (Celsius® and Hybox TT), which offer chassis light weighting solutions.
Truck cabins
For the cabin we have outer panel product solutions such as Serica FLO® and MagiZinc®&nbs