Manufacturing of metal parts for construction equipment

On construction sites, your heavy equipment operates in demanding environments. Repeated impacts, extreme loads, exposure to the elements or dust… Faced with the challenges of your industry, you can count on the Hexalean Group, an expert in manufacturing custom parts for construction machinery. We design and produce metal components perfectly tailored to your needs (durability, quality, dimensional accuracy, quantity…).

But our commitment extends beyond simply manufacturing your parts. We also offer expert support in metal fabrication, providing personalized service and a comprehensive solution designed to enhance your industrial performance.

Combined with our industry expertise, our diverse and high-performance fleet of machinery enables us to meet all the component needs for the manufacture of construction equipment:

• Metal parts for hydraulic excavators and skid-steer loaders, bulldozers and graders, compactors and rollers
• Reinforced frames, articulated arms, telescopic booms, buckets, pivot pins, cab guards, blades, carrier frames, side members, cross members, hydraulic mounts, drums, load-bearing structures, vibrating frames…

• Metal parts for loaders, dump trucks, and construction trucks
• Tipping buckets, articulated frames, lifting structures, tie rods, cylinders, reinforced frames, engine mounts, bucket structures…

• Metal components for construction forklifts, aerial work platforms, and lift platforms
• Masts, forks, frames, operator guards, telescopic structures, platforms, guardrails, stabilizer supports…

• Jackhammer mounts, demolition grapples, drill rig structures, special equipment frames…

• Frames, mechanical fasteners, hydraulic mounts, base plates, reinforcement brackets, tie rods, pivots, gussets, supports, housings, protective covers…

• Electrical retrofit
• Upgrading to meet new standards…

The metal parts used to manufacture construction equipment must withstand extreme conditions (construction sites): abrasive dust (rubble, sand), splashes of water and mud, significant temperature fluctuations, exposure to chemicals and hydrocarbons…

Drawing on our in-depth knowledge of the field, we leverage our technical expertise to make the right choices: durable materials, enhanced anti-corrosion treatments… All these criteria are met to design and manufacture reliable, durable parts suited to harsh environments.

Construction equipment is subjected to particularly intense stresses: lifting, torsion, tension, impact, heavy loads…

To meet the mechanical demands of your industry, the Hexalean Group deploys proven technical solutions:

• Optimized design
• Reinforced thicknesses
• Certified welds
• Materials selected for their high strength: Hardox® abrasion-resistant steel, high-yield-strength steel (HYS)…

Thanks to its multi-site setup, the Hexalean Group is able to:

• Adapt to your desired production and deliveryschedule.
• Manufacture and deliver your metal parts as quickly as possible, even on an urgent basis.
• Deliver directly to your job sites or facilities, in France and internationally (in compliance with European and American requirements).

We put our industrial agility at your service to optimize your performance.

The quality of our welds is subject to strict regulatory standards:

• Welders certified to ISO 9606 and ISO 14732 standards
• Quality certification of welding processes in accordance with standard NF EN ISO 15613-1
• IWS (International Welding Specialist) qualification obtained. Our goal: to advance to the next level (IWT – International Welding Technologist) by 2026.

For construction vehicle manufacturers, this guarantees that welded parts meet technical requirements to withstand impacts, vibrations, and heavy loads.

• 10 years of proven expertise in metal fabrication, serving leading manufacturers of construction equipment such as Volvo.
• ISO 9001 certification: a guarantee of high precision and quality tailored to your requirements.
• Expertise in all technical skills specific to the public works machinery sector: complex mechanical welding…
• Close collaboration between our design office and your teams: co-design of parts offering the best performance (strength, cost-effectiveness, etc.).
• One-stop-shop solution: from machining parts for your construction equipment to assembly, including cutting, forming, sheet metal work, surface treatment, and storage… Benefit from a single expert partner and the strength of a group to manage part or all of your production.
• Flexibility and adaptability: the ability to produce metal parts in any volume, from prototypes to large production runs, including small and medium-sized runs or individual components.

To increase production capacity for construction equipment at one of its sites, Volvo selected the Hexalean Group to rapidly outsource the manufacturing of a critical welded component. The key requirement was to maintain high standards for quality and delivery times.

To meet this high-stakes challenge, our industrial group brought this production back in-house by implementing several technical and organizational solutions:

• Creating robotic production cells specifically for this client to ensure a smooth ramp-up.
• Implementing a dedicated quality and logistics system to ensure compliance with strict standards and deadlines (Just-in-Time delivery).
• Taking full responsibility for managing the production flow.
• Forming a cross-functional team for this project, composed of experts (in quality, production, and logistics), which has become a permanent fixture to ensure continuous improvement and the maintenance of competitive costs.

Thanks to the success of this long-term partnership, our client achieved its objectives. It gained industrial space while securing the production of its component with rapid scalability, improving ODT, and reducing costs. It can now rely on our industry expertise to meet its large-scale manufacturing needs.