Gränges Asia is forming a strategic alliance with Schöler GmbH for folded tube operations in China

Schöler is the leading supplier of folded tube production systems. Together, we will drive and accelerate customers’ technology shift from extruded to folded tubes, which is expected to become the preferred technology for both automotive and stationary heat exchangers. Apart from enabling market leading tube production, the alliance with Schöler ensures complete competency coverage over the tube supply chain enabling flawless implementation of folded tube technology for customers.

Gränges’ folded tubes combines Gränges’ market leading material expertise with unique proficiency of heat exchanger applications generated by decades of successful contributions to tech leaders in the heat exchanger industry. Today, extruded tubes is the dominating technology in condensers and evaporators but the folded tube technology is already applied by several heat exchanger leaders. HEX applications continually require higher thermodynamic performance and improved corrosion resistance and folded tube technology enables both higher quality and lower cost compared to multiport extruded tubes.