THE EUROPEAN – SECURITY AND DEFENCE UNION
The increasing demand for forces protection
photo: © Dillinger
Security steels for Europe
by Jörg Maffert, Marketing and Technical Support Manager, Dillinger Hüttenwerke AG, Dillingen
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he increasingly unstable geopolitical security situation, with war in Europe and terrorist attacks especially in the Sahel in Africa, is making the number of military and civil-military missions rise. The deployment of NATO forces to the eastern flank of the Alliance simultaneously with the European Union’s civil-military engagements outside of Europe increase the demand for ballistic protected vehicles and structures. Highly specific steel solutions are needed for mission-oriented protection of civil and military personnel against a whole range of threats. Rare are the producers of such protection. In Germany, Dillinger’s broad portfolio of grades of security steel can assure maximum safety for example for civil and military vehicles as well as buildings.
Protection of personnel and systems Whether in conflict prevention, crisis management or military engagements: the operational environment of missions confronts multinational civil-military and armed forces and the systems they use with complex challenges. The precondition for successful mission accomplishment is the uncompromising protection of personnel and systems against every one of a diverse range of threat scenarios. The armed forces rely in this situation on the leading competence of European system suppliers and on the performance of the protective equipment systems developed by them. System designers, however, are repeatedly faced with new challenges, in view of increasing demands generated by ever-changing threat situations. Dillinger, Europe’s leading producer of heavy plate, domiciled
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in Dillingen, in Germany’s Saarland, has for decades supplied the security industry with special steels that meet the ultra-demanding standards for the safety and security of civilian vehicles and buildings and started a decade ago supplying armament industries. This new step was accompanied by the development of the extensive range of DIFENDER security steels. The methodical use of ultra-modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications and highly sophisticated production processes thus enabled the company to energetically pursue the development of new products and the refinement of existing ones. Profound knowledge incorporated in metallurgical models and the unique depth of know-how resulting from more than three centuries of organically grown production competence in heavy plates proved to be a guarantee of success.
Jörg Maffert is a Marketing and Technical Support Manager of Dillinger Hüttenwerke AG. He studied mechanical engineering at the universities of Saarbrücken and Metz (19881993), and continued his studies photo: © Dillinger
at the German Welding Institute
(SLV) in Saarbrücken. Since 1994, Mr Maffert has held different positions at the Abel Fauvet Rail group; welding supervisor followed by General Manager at TÜV Cie Saarland/France. He is a board member of AFIAP.
