STIRTEC – our success story as leading FSW company

With more than 20 years of experience in welding technology, we are successfully guiding through the process of Friction Stir Welding and customers' applications. Well-known in the automotive market as a FSW full-line supplier, Stirtec is giving its expertise within the product development on weldability with the capability of manufacturing first prototypes over to providing most-productive solutions as FSW centers and complete production lines including automation.

Highlighting our product range from smaller application sizes in the HV inverter segment to large full-EV battery trays, Stirtec offers a broad variety within its machine portfolio to fulfill customers' requirements for high-productive manufacturing systems to the fullest - in line with the highly innovative standards of FSW technology.

History – Founder Thomas Weinberger and Gunter Figner
The founders of Stirtec have been developing and expanding the knowledge within the solid-state welding technique Friction Stir Welding since their early academical studies in year 2005. As part of the research focus, Dr. Weinberger and DI Figner set up an innovative Friction Stir Welding laboratory at the Institute of Materials Science and Welding Technology at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Their scientific research implements the analysis of the FSW technology for different material joints and its applicability for industrial use in the automotive industry. Out of this passion for Friction Stir Welding, the company Stirtec was founded in 2010 as a spin-off of the Graz University of Technology, with multiple patents in the development of the appropriate tooling, typical applications for processing and design of the corresponding machine equipment.