Tiger Trailers and Tata Steel partner to develop Lightweight Clearspan Curtainsider
By Jim Gibbins - 1st May 2019
UK - Tiger Trailers of Winsford has begun deliveries of its Lightweight Clearspan Curtainsider trailer, following a six-month development programme in conjunction with Tata Steel Ltd of Port Talbot. The trailer weighs 500kg less than a conventional Clearspan Curtainsider and allows customers to carry a greater payload of up to 29.5 tonnes.
The initial design concept originated from Tiger Trailers and a partnership was formed with Tata Steel early in the development of the trailer. Tata Steel’s Advanced Engineering team, based at the University of Warwick, worked with Tiger Trailers using finite element analysis (FEA) to assess design revisions across three design evolutions from the initial concept.
