A Tier 1 automotive parts supplier, KS HUAYU AluTech GmbH is a 50:50-Joint Venture of Germany’s Rheinmetall AG and the Chinese automobile specialist HASCO. At Euroguss 2022, the company will be displaying its full range of production technologies and casting applications, with a special focus on sophisticated aluminium cast parts for e-mobility and modern lightweight structural parts. As managing director…

KS HUAYU AluTech GmbH, a subsidiary of the technology enterprise Rheinmetall AG, has received a new order with a lifetime value of nearly €170 million. It is the largest ever order in the aluminium specialist's company history. Awarded by a major German automaker, the order encompasses carrier plates for battery control components. Carrier plates are necessary for the safe functioning of high-voltage…

KS HUAYU AluTech GmbH is extending the Neckarsulm production capacities with a new 5,000 square meter production shop for structural parts in aluminum. The move is mainly in response to current orders in the new-product and driveline segments. In founding the company back in 2014, international first-tier auto-industry supplier Rheinmetall Automotive AG (Rheinmetall Group) had contributed its foundry…

Joint venture for piston rings in China KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of KSPG AG (a member of the Rheinmetall Group) and Japan's Riken Corporation have agreed to set up a joint venture for the manufacture of piston rings in the Chinese province of Hubei. A shareholder agreement for the envisaged joint-venture has now been signed. Under this agreement, KS Kolbenschmidt will take over 30…

KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH, a company of German Rheinmetall AG and Riken Corporation (“Riken”), market leaders in piston and piston ring technology respectively, announce that they are forming a global strategic alliance for the sales, engineering and development of power cylinder systems. The joint development of power cylinder systems will be orientated towards the reduction of CO2 emissions, the improvement…

Extended capacities for small-piston production New production shop #4 recently opened on the site of Kolbenschmidt Czech Republic, a.s. (KSCZ), close to Ústí nad Labem. The new building has two storeys with a total area of around 8,000 square meters. One part houses those areas which had to yield to the new building, another is for expanding foundry capacities for commercial vehicle aluminum pistons and…

KSB reports growth in emerging economies and in its general business The KSB Group increased its order intake by 6.4 per¬cent in the first half of the year to € 1,067.6 million, as shown in its half-year financial report published today. The pump and valve manufacturer profited from a rebound in its general business with standard products, as well as from a number of major orders, including projects for…

The investment represents the largest expansion project in the company’s history. Founded in 1891 as a small family-run foundry and machine shop under the name Georgia Iron Works , GIW has been supplying slurry pumps to Florida’s phosphate industry since 1914 and became part of the KSB Group in 1996. The new foundry is a central element of a comprehensive site expansion that also includes a distribution…

On 13th of July the pumps and valves manufacturer KSB opened a new regional center in the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Dubai) . From there, KSB Middle East FZE controls all activities for the future market of the United Arab Emirates and neighboring countries, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen and Qatar. "As part of our strategy, we want to promote KSB next to the project business in the coming years, especially the…