Lightening the load

Jan de Moor, Marketing Manager for Heavy Machinery at ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products

“Heavy-duty vehicles have a significant role to play in the fight against climate change,” notes Jan de Moor, Marketing Manager for Heavy Machinery at ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products. “While trucks and trailers represent just four percent of the vehicles on the road in Europe, they are responsible for 25-percent of CO₂ emissions from all transport modes and six percent of overall emissions.”

Weight reductions enhance payload capacity

AHSS steels such as Amstrong^® and Amstrong^® Ultra from ArcelorMittal Europe are already helping OEMs to reduce the weight of their vehicles and trailers and associated CO₂ emissions. The additional strength of the AHSS grades enables customers to use less steel, reducing the weight of the overall structure while maintaining its technical performance. This enhances the payload capacity of trailers and thus has a positive impact on the global CO₂ emissions of transported goods.

John Vande Voorde, Senior Research Engineer for ArcelorMittal Global R&D

“A key advantage of ArcelorMittal’s offer is our wide range of products, solutions, and support,” says John Vande Voorde. “To help customers obtain the most out of our offer, ArcelorMittal Global R&D has developed generic steel solutions for trailers and tippers. The solutions can be used as the basis for co-engineering projects with our customers and help them to develop new products quickly and efficiently. We look forward to strengthening our partnership with the European transport industry as it prepares to meet the new European emission standards for trucks and trailers.”