Automotive & Transport
Vallourec offers solutions for all your automotive and transport tubular needs, from bearing tubes to axles to precision tubing and beyond. With our ranges of standard and premium steel grades, our products help optimize your designs while meeting or exceeding industry standards.
Rising to the challenge
Automotive and railway manufacturers, whether designing cars, trucks, wagons, locomotives or heavy-duty machinery, must balance competing demands. Regardless of the application, they need robust, light and durable components that meet strict safety standards and are cost-effective.
Our products are intended for:
- Passenger cars
- Commercial vehicles
- Railway vehicles
- Trailers
- Two-wheeled vehicles
Precision tubing
Our full offer includes precision tubing for parts ranging from airbags to diesel injection pipes to transmission and suspension components and beyond. With a wide size range and tight tolerances, we can tailor-make a solution that meets your application needs..
Bearing tubes
Smartube, our simplified bearing tube solution, is a customer favorite. Produced by our subsidiary, Vallourec Bearing Tubes, Smartube is a customer award-winning solution for your bearing tube needs.
Axles
For both railway, commercial and heavy-duty vehicles, axle parts and housings must be ultra-resistant and extremely tough. Economic demands require material that offers easy, fast and precise machining combined with constant material properties. Our Structural Hollow Sections are ideal for friction- and resistance-welded axles, forged integral axles and axle units with machined axle hubs.
From a tube to an automotive component
With tools dedicated to the automotive industry, we also partner with our clients to supply pre-transformed tubes capable of meeting multiple component designs. We offer a range of services for these products, including heat treatments, surface preparation, measurements, cuts, marking, traceability, specific bundle preparation and just-in-time delivery.
Shapes & Sizes
We offer a full range of standard and non-standard sizes with tight tolerances.
Hot-rolled seamless
- Round
OD: 27.5 – 711 mm
WT: 2.9 – 120 mm - Square
40 x 40 up to
300 x 300 mm
WT: 2.9 – 25 mm - Rectangular
50 x 30 up to
400 x 200 mm
WT: 2.9 – 25 mm - Forged internal and external shapes
Shaped pipes
OD: 200 – 445 mm
WT: 25 – 100 mm
Cold Pilgered Seamless
- Round
OD: 25 – 102 mm
WT: 3 – 22 mm
Grades
We offer a wide range of grades including low carbon steels, high strength steels and specially developed proprietary grades. We also offer all necessary treatments tailored to your needs (e.g. Ferrite-Pearlite annealing).
- Common grades: 20MnV6, S460NH…
- Quench & temper grades: C45, 42CrMo4, S690…
- Case hardening steels: 16MnCr5, 20MnCr5…
- Bearing & tool steel: 100Cr6, 100CrMo7…
Technical support
Right from the design phase, our experts provide support and can help you select the right specifications for your product needs
Tailor-made solutions
We have the capabilities to produce made-to-measure, including:
- Non-destructive testing (US and EMI)
- Cutting to short lengths
- Outside shot-blasting, peeling & grinding
- Pre-machining of ends
- Supply chain solutions
Qualification
Vallourec will also support your project during the qualification process.
Soluções tubulares que trazem inovação ao transporte
Tubular solutions to drive innovation in transportation
Tubos e Componentes Trefilados, Perfilados e Laminados
