die casting foundry
operating- Status
- operating
Volkswagen’s largest component plant, producing gearboxes and – increasingly – electric drives, with its own aluminium die casting for housings. The feedstock is secondary AlSi9Cu3 and AlSi12 casting alloys for housings and grades with reduced copper content for welded and liquid-cooled parts. The plant is an example of the shift of aluminium demand from gearboxes to electric motor housings, without a change of alloy family.
Verified at source:
- C Company website (volkswagen-group.com)
- B Volkswagen Newsroom – Volkswagen Werk Kassel (Europe's largest light metal foundry: gearbox housings, large aluminium structural components)
- B Volkswagen brand website – plant tours (volkswagen.de)
- B Group website – announcement of 29.04.2022 on the electric motor centre in Kassel (volkswagen-group.com)