The tightening of global environmental protection regulations and the breakthrough of eMobility are forcing the development of new vehicle architectures. Aluminum lightweight structural components are designed to drive vehicle weight down further without sacrificing value or quality.

The complexity and, above all, the size of structural components in modern vehicle construction are constantly increasing. Complete vehicle floors and body parts, which in the past were welded together from individual parts, are produced from a single casting using the Gigacast process. The main advantage of this process is a significant reduction in the number of individual parts, but also improved crash properties of the entire body.

Machining of these Gigacast structural components requires equally large CNC machining centers. ANGER Machining has the right solution for parts up to 3.5 x 1.2 meters with the SP2-D and SP2-P, and with the Meteor 3000 there is even the possibility of clamping and double-spindle machining parts as large as 3.2 x 1.8 meters.