Manufacturing

Flexible Metal manufactures a broad range of different parts covering the global market. State-of-the-art manufacturing facilities ensure that the latest manufacturing technologies are applied to meet the most stringent customer requirements. Flexible metal competitive edge is in vertical integration – from the proven suppliers of raw materials up to the supply of the final products to Flexible Metal global customer base guaranteeing the necessary on-demand availability.

Flexible Metal with a total production area of 20 000 square meters, all of our manufacturing locations are ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 14001 certified.

+ Donwload cerification for Flexible Metal Prague
+ Donwload cerification for Flexible Metal Hamburg
+ Donwload cerification for Flexible Metal Tucker

Flexible Metal state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, ensure that the latest manufacturing technologies are applied to meet the most stringent customer requirements. In order to manufacture this variation in products, Flexible Metal makes significant investments in its manufacturing equipment and processes. This guarantees the necessary flexibility to anticipate changes in the market-demand and cope with the broad and diverse range of products.

Engineering

The product design engineering capability of Flexible Metal is the combination of the extensive metal bellows and on-engine component design experience and the pioneering development of header and air gap manifolds at the former Metaldyne Tubular Products in Hamburg, Michigan.

Our engineering office is established in both European and North American locations. Our capabilities include CAD design and modeling, elastic and non-linear finite element analysis programs, modal analysis software, bellows design software conforming to the Standards of the Expansion Joint Manufacturers Association and a variety of other design tools. Our software capability includes:

• Dassault Systèmes CATIA V5
• PTC Creo 3
• Siemens NX 12
• Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks 2015
• ANSYS Fluent

In addition to the analytical tools available to our engineers, the company has testing facilities that include bellows testing, metallurgical and non-destructive testing including radiographic and ultrasonic inspection. Two engine test cells rated to 900 horsepower for gasoline and diesel engines are located in Hamburg which is fully instrumented for temperature, pressure and flow measurement as well as the dynamometer measurements of speed and horsepower. High-speed camera equipment is available to analyze product movements which can be used in the tests cells or transported to customer’s facilities. Other testing equipment includes:

• Hot vibration testing
• Bellows life-cycle testing
• Flow bench
• Sound transmission loss bench

Engineering division specializes in working with the customers from the start of the design concept through production to develop designs that meet or exceed performance requirements while utilizing the most economical materials and efficient production methods.