Maxion Wheels, the world’s largest wheel manufacturer, announced today the launch of Europe’s lightest mass-produced steel truck wheel at IAA Transportation 2022. With weight savings of 3 kg across the wheel line-up, compared with current state-of-the-art steel truck wheels, Maxion’s lightweight wheels can add a payload increase of 40 kg or more.

Maxion Wheels, the world’s largest wheel manufacturer, announced today it will share its commercial vehicle wheel growth strategy, including new product and sustainability solutions, during IAA Transportation 2022 from Sept. 20 – 25, 2022 in Hannover, Germany (Hall 21 / Booth A58). The Company will also host a press conference, in its booth, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 from 8:30 – 8:50 a.m. CET to unveil the details.

Maxion Wheels, the world’s largest wheel manufacturer, announced today that it joined the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) and ResponsibleSteel not-for-profit sustainability member organizations committed to the responsible sourcing, production and use of aluminum and steel.

Maxion Wheels, the world’s largest wheel manufacturer, today announced it is recruiting for more than 60 new team members for its Sedalia, Missouri steel wheels operation in response to major new business awarded to the plant.

New mobility and sustainability are changing wheel design and driving innovation advances at Maxion Wheels. Speaking at the 2022 Chassis Technology Symposium in Munich, Vice President Global Engineering, Ralf Duning, explained how e-mobility and carbon neutrality strategies are transforming car design, automotive engineering, and wheels.

Iochpe-Maxion, a multi-billion dollar global leader in the production of automotive wheels, and a leading producer of automotive structural components in the Americas, announced today an investment of R$ 100 million for the expansion of its operations in Cruzeiro, Brazil.

Maxion Wheels, the world’s largest wheel manufacturer, and long-distance driver Rainer Zietlow and the Challenge4 team, successfully set a new Guinness World Record for driving to the highest altitude in the all-electric VW ID.4 GTX. Equipped with Maxion’s robust, lightweight and sustainable steel wheels, the team drove to the top of Bolivia’s Uturuncu volcano, 5,816 meters above sea level, breaking the previous record set in 2020 by approx. 45 meters of altitude.

Iochpe-Maxion, the world’s largest wheel supplier and the leading structural components supplier in the Americas, has set the objective of becoming a carbon neutral supplier by 2040. This target, “ROADMAP ZERO”, is the focus of all sustainability developments at the global Tier One.

In markets where green electricity is not readily available from the grid, on-site solar power generation is an important way of bridging the green energy gap. The Maxion Wheels Saraburi plant in central Thailand is the company’s first to use solar energy to decarbonize aluminum wheel production.

Iochpe-Maxion announces an investment of US$ 5.5 million in Autotech Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm based in USA.