Friction stir welding in series production

From an individual component to small-batch series and mass-production – RIFTEC can handle the job with ease: We deliver even just a single piece, with no limit to higher quantities. Our service ranges from materials procurement to logistics to all necessary pre-treatments or aftertreatments of workpieces, including for example mechanical processing before or after welding. What makes this comprehensive service possible is the fact that RIFTEC has access to a network of partner companies and suppliers that has been growing for many years.


For you this means: service from a single source. 

And RIFTEC is there to help you when things get tight. Irregular series or series production run-up can be handled on short notice. We can also help you when capacity must be expanded at short notice and can serve as your “insurance” against production stoppages.

Examples:

  • high vacuum-tight aluminium-stainless steel multi-material joints in components for X-ray equipment from Siemens Medical Solutions, View 1
  • high vacuum-tight aluminium-stainless steel multi-material joints in components for X-ray equipment from Siemens Medical Solutions, View 2
  • high vacuum-tight aluminium-stainless steel multi-material joints in components for X-ray equipment from Siemens Medical Solutions, View 3

RIFTEC took on responsibility for materials procurement for these high vacuum-tight aluminium-stainless steel multi-material joints in components for X-ray equipment from Siemens Medical Solutions. In addition we weld the aluminium-stainless steel joints and mill the seam surface.

  • drying trays for the food industry, View 1
  • drying trays for the food industry, View 2

Know-how from RIFTEC also goes into these drying trays for the food industry. Here the RIFTEC team first verified the specified properties and then developed a special clamping technique for use in production. After procurement of the individual components, we produced 6,500 drying trays, performed the aftertreatment of all welded joints and then anodised the products. 

  • cooling plates for industrial plate freezing plants, View 1

RIFTEC has been producing such cooling plates for industrial plate freezing plants since 2006, and here too we verified the properties. The cooling plates are welded from extruded sections, with each plate weighing about 350 kilograms and measuring 2.5 x 4.5 metres. This results in a weld seam about 50 metres long for each workpiece. The quantity produced per production run is between 36 and 700 pieces.

  • These tailored blanks for the Audi R8
  • Dr. Meyer in front of an Audi R8

These tailored blanks for the Audi R8 are quickly on the track. RIFTEC handles the job of materials procurement and welds the blanks.

  • a decentrally used piece of equipment with a counterflow heat exchanger
  • perforated plate cylinders for the eco-fan

These perforated plate cylinders for the eco-fan, a decentrally used piece of equipment with a counterflow heat exchanger, are the result of a process involving five main work steps—from the materials procurement and forming to friction stir welding and finally mechanical aftertreatment and surface finishing.