KIEFEL Automotive s.r.o.

High frequency welding systems
for strong and durable connections
 
Attention to detail in a matter of course in the high-priced automotive interiors segment. Precise and flawless welds are indispensable.
Excellent results require perfect alignment certain high-frequency welding parameters: pressing pressure, welding power, welding duration and cooling time.

As the pioneer and market leader in high frequency welding, Kiefel produced the first system concepts in the 60s for the VW Beetle and shaped the future of high frequency welding technology.

This lead to developments including electrode safety devices (ESA) and parameter monitoring.

Presses/Pressing tools
for impressive results
 
Temperature-controlled aluminum or steel tools, with integrated trimming above the punching slide or with pinch edges, depending on requirements, form the basis of our implementation of pressing technology. We offer hydraulic presses both as standalone machines and with integrated tools. Automation solutions, such as loading and unloading by robots, complete our product portfolio.

Our machines and tools process materials such as natural fibers with polypropylene (NFPC-PP), PP trilaminate, glass matt reinforced thermoplastic (GMT), long fiber injection materials (LFI), sheet molding compound (SMC) or carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) to produce complex interior and exterior components.

We support and accompany you from the initial product idea and product development, material tests, prototyping, pilot production in our Technology Center, the ideal tooling and system technology, up to series production.

Pressing laminating systems
for high quality materials
Impressive vehicle interiors incorporate high-quality materials such as leather, fabrics, imitation leather or Alcantara. 

Decorative and functional seams with contrasting colors on the interior components meet the increasingly sophisticated demands of the buyer for refined vehicle interiors.

Kiefel offers a wide range of systems and tools for this, and has decades of process know-how of all processes commonly used in press lamination technology.

Precision application of dispersion or hotmelt adhesives to the edges utilizing spin-spray and the bead application process supplement the product range to integrated adhesive application / press-laminating production cells.

 

Integrated edge-folding and automation
Integration of edge-folding technology in the press-laminating process as well as automation of downstream processes such as punching and anti-friction coating application or assembly tasks (clip and screw mounting) by robot or linear shuttle systems round off the range of products.