What is the cooperation like between “lightweight” technologies and small and medium-sized enterprises? And what is their key role in the future? As our Parliamentary State Secretary Michael Kellner …
Top story from WOMAG: Our surfaces offer 1,000 times protection for additively manufactured aluminum components
Our ULTRACERAMIC® wear protection, based on PEO (plasma electrolytic oxidation) for additively manufactured aluminum alloys reduces the wear rate by at least a factor of 1,000. This not only extends the service life of metallic 3D-printed components, but…
Top Innovators 2020
TOP 100 – Eloxalwerk Ludwigsburg (ELB) is Top Innovator 2020 ELB relies on individual, customer-specific solutions for all surfaces. From metal analysis in the ppm range, e.g. by means of X-ray fluorescence analysis, to laser microscopic surface analyses and a broadly positioned metallography, to…
Lightweight Now! Bridging Mg To High-Level Applications
“Advances in Engineering” reports on our innovation that makes magnesium extremely durable and thus opens up completely new fields of application…
Protection of Magnesium Against Corrosion and Wear
Spotlightmetal reports on the outstanding successes in the Tribolas3D research project…
Say goodbye to wear and tear: up to 100 times longer life service for components
Poor corrosion resistance and low hardness of metals such as magnesium can now be remedied with a new process: Laser beams are used to melt the high-performance plastic PEEK onto a component precisely where it is subjected to particular stress.
Thin King Awards: Groundbreaking for lightweight construction, ELB recognized for new plastic coating process
Eloxalwerk Ludwigsburg (ELB) is not actually a lightweight construction company, but the medium-sized company from Ludwigsburg-Neckarweihingen received the audience award at the first state-wide Thin King Awards of the Baden-Württemberg Lightweight Construction Agency.
Lightweight construction made possible – through the systematic research work of ELB
Thanks to the systematic research work carried out by ELB® – Eloxalwerk Ludwigsburg – on the protective armoring of corrosion-sensitive light metals, it is now possible to depict a component self-protection system that enables integrated and extended multi-material use.
Quasi-maintenance-free lightweight drives
Lightweight components made of magnesium and other metals can now be specifically protected against corrosion and wear. Laser beams are used to melt the high-performance plastic PEEK onto the surface.
Targeted laser application of PEEK makes it wear-resistant
Poor corrosion resistance and low hardness are the disadvantages of magnesium as a lightweight material. However, components made of magnesium and other metals can be specifically protected against corrosion and wear using an innovative process.
