From initial idea to ready-to-fit component
Kuhn Special Steel is able to aid its customers in the design, alloy selection and selection of casting process for their products. This starts with the selection of the right materials and continues with the design and configuration of the components concerned, the production of high-quality centrifugal castings and the precision machining.
High-performance materials
Many of the stainless-steel components of Kuhn Special Steel are subjected to extreme environments. That´s why the focus on alloy families used is characterized by their corrosion resistance, wear resistance, heat resistance or any combination of all three. While the team of Kuhn Special Steel pours over 400 different alloys, they are constantly striving to develop new materials to meet their customers’ ever evolving design criteria.
High-quality, durable, flawless - stainless-steel components from a single casting
Kuhn Special Steel manufactures exclusively with the centrifugal casting process. This production process guarantees the maximum purity of the material. Mechanical and technological characteristics are comparable with forged quality and clearly superior to static castings.
With the latest machines and flexible solutions
Machining and manufacturing equipment constitutes one of the world’s biggest manufacturing facilities to operate in conjunction with a centrifugal casting foundry. Whether customers need them to manufacture individual components based on their own drawings, or manufacture production runs involving large numbers of items, Kuhn Special Steel has a solution ready.
Caring for the environment
Returns, chips and other scrap debris from the production process are sorted by material and level of purity, before being cleaned, weighed to the nearest gram and remelted. With a major investment in a large photovoltaic system and many other programs to reduce CO2 emissions and save energy, Kuhn Special Steel is pursuing the long-term goal of climate-neutral production at its site in Germany.
More than 40 different markets
High-performance key components from Kuhn Special Steel are used wherever there is a need for reliability, quality and especially durability. The range of applications of their components is virtually unlimited and runs from corrosion-resistant decanter components to valve-seat rings made of nickel-based alloy.
