In order to decrease energy consumption, reduce pollutant emission and improve vehicle performance, OEMs always pay key attention to the vehicle lightweight technologies. The 6th China Lightweight Vehicle Summit 2019 was held on April 11th-12th in Shanghai, the summit keeps up with the latest trends of automotive lightweight policy in Chinese market, and global lightweight trends. Over 500 technical experts from FAW, SAIC, BAIC, Volvo… gather to explore the hottest issues of vehicle lightweight, provide best solutions and share real case studies during one main forum and three sub-forums.
ArcelorMittal and GONVVAMA attended the summit to showcase cutting-edge automotive steel solutions in line with the latest trends. Jean-Noel GACEL, ArcelorMittal Senior Research Engineer gave a speech on "Steel Solutions and Answers to New Automotive Trends for Electrification” and the Metal Material Sub-forum.
ArcelorMittal is the only automotive steel producer with a worldwide presence. Now, through joint venture projects of ArcelorMittal in China, VAMA and GONVVAMA, we are able to provide domestic carmakers with lighter and safer integrated automotive steel solutions. As a downstream solution provider for automotive steel, GONVVAMA is specialized in the monolithic and laser welding operation for hot stamping steel, AHSS, UHSS and exposed steel. The aim of GONVVAMA is to provide good products and technical solutions to carmakers.
Jean-Noel firstly introduces ArcelorMittal's 3rd generation advanced high strength steels for cold stamping, implementation of 2nd generation of AS-coated hot stamping steel, implementation of 3rd generation advanced high strength steel for cold stamping, and shows a series of body material solutions - S-in-motion® series product for emerging automobile market, introduced the solution on the electric car lightweight aspects of good performance. In addition, he also shows the S-in-motion® latest steel battery box solution, which can realize modularization and cost optimization.
