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Steel is a strong and durable material, used in numerous sectors for various purposes: as building materials, structural details of heavy-machinery, wind turbines, streetlight posts etc. When using steel, the most common method of linking two pieces together, is by welding or using linking parts. However, these links can very often prove to be the weakest points in the structure, which is why some product that need to either support heavy loads or endure constant natural forces and other physical loads, are made out of singular pieces instead of multiple smaller ones linked together. In addition, many of these products and parts are made of tube- and profile materials, which have received various metal processing activities, such as cut-outs, drilling, phasing and many other actions being carried out. However, due to their complex profile (circular/rectangular tubes, profile materials in different shapes), the commonly used production machinery for cutting and performing other tasks onto metals cannot be used for such complex materials.
The objective of the project is to develop the capacity of efficiently processing tube and profile materials to be able to manufacture products for more demanding and constant precision requiring sectors. The company will branch out by manufacturing product for the energy sector, such as streetlight posts and wind turbine parts. In addition, the company will gain the capacity to manufacture more complex parts in their current markets for their customers. These include but are not limited to: various precisely cut parts of roof trusses for steel building structures and structural parts of heavy-duty machinery. The technology will make the current manually performed processes more resource efficient and sustainable (reduced CO2 emissions by 30,2 tonnes per year and energy consumption by 18,4 MWh per year).