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Our laboratory in Harzgerode is one of the best-equipped facilities of its type in Germany. This ensures, among other things, that we possess the very latest smelting and treatment facilities for the production and testing of smelted products. These facilities include: a laboratory smelting plant with two induction lifting coil furnaces (10 kg and 50 kg); a mobile resistance-heated smelting and holding furnace (350 kg); a smelting treatment system for cleaning, degassing, and/or chlorinating; a vacuum testing system for determining density indices; a thermal analysis system for recording and analyzing cooling curves; a heated table with ingot molds for casting a wide variety of test samples, a spectrometer for determining chemical composition (SPECTRO); a pendulum impact testing machine for stress testing thin-walled aluminum samples; and multiple facilities for carrying out heat treatments.

Intelligent lightweight construction from Germany makes cars less heavy

A piece of Harzgerode can be found in nearly every car, for at the local BOHAI TRIMET Automotive site “mobile lightness” is being created. The light metal specialist produces high-quality aluminium castings in modern production halls.

Together with its sister location in Sömmerda, Thuringia, the Harzgerode plant has been supplying the automotive, electrical and machine construction industries for over 140 years. Since 2017, auto parts have been developed and produced jointly in cooperation with the Chinese majority shareholder Bohai Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Renowned German and international automotive manufacturers and their suppliers particularly appreciate the high quality and reliability of the vehicle components manufactured in Harzgerode and Sömmerda. Here, customer-specific die cast and permanent mold cast parts are manufactured – including chassis parts, engine blocks, structural parts, clutch and transmission cases, as well as battery compartments, oil pan and motor and gear brackets. The Sömmerda plant mainly produces mechatronic components for nearly all automatic transmissions. Some 1,000 employees work together with their customers to make cars lighter, more economical and, in the process, more ecological.