Wuppermann Metalltechnik (WMT) has officially opened the new tube plant at its Altmünster site with a ceremonial event.
The new production line enables the manufacture of a significantly wider range of dimensions at the site. It can produce sophisticated and customised geometries with enlarged cross-sections up to 130 mm and all thicknesses ranging from 1.0 to 4.0mm. This enables the manufacture of special profiles with complex cross-sections capable of withstanding structural loads, Kallanish learns.
All tubes and profiles are available with pickled, galvanized or zinc-magnesium-coated surfaces. For applications with particularly high requirements for bending stiffness and torsional strength, high-strength steels such as DP800, DP980 and 22MnB5 are used.
This flexibility opens up numerous new applications, including for shopfitting, conveyor technology, in demanding structures in steel and plant engineering, and in the photovoltaic industry, Wuppermann says.
In July 2023, the Wuppermann Group, headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, announced an investment of €40 million ($47m) in the construction of the new tube plant.
For the 8,860 m² hall area, 100 precast concrete columns were installed. To enable climate-neutral heating in the future, WMT had geothermal probes with a total length of around 5,000 metres installed. The first tube was produced as early as July 2025 while the commissioning of the inline rolling stand and the tube internal scraping was completed the set-up in autumn.
