Forging Supplier to Friedrichshafen — ZF Friedrichshafen AG & MTU / Rolls-Royce Power Systems
Shivam Forge supplies EN 10204 3.1-certified alloy steel forgings — transmission shafts, planet carriers, gear blanks, and large-bore engine components — to Tier 1 suppliers feeding ZF Friedrichshafen AG (the world's largest independent automotive driveline and chassis technology supplier) and MTU Friedrichshafen (Rolls-Royce Power Systems, large diesel and gas engines for marine, rail, defence, and power generation). Material grades: 42CrMo4, 18CrNiMo7-6, 20MnCr5, 34CrNiMo6. IATF 16949 aligned quality, PPAP/VDA 6.3 documentation. CIF Hamburg or DDP Friedrichshafen. Rajkot, India. Call +91-9265772827.
Friedrichshafen, on the shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee), traces its industrial heritage to the Zeppelin airship works — ZF Friedrichshafen AG was originally founded in 1915 to manufacture precision gears for Zeppelin drivetrains, and has since grown into the world's largest independent automotive driveline and chassis technology supplier, producing transmissions, axles, steering systems, and e-mobility drive units supplied to virtually every major global automotive OEM. Alongside ZF, MTU Friedrichshafen (part of Rolls-Royce Power Systems) manufactures large-bore diesel and gas engines for marine propulsion, rail traction, defence vehicles, and stationary power generation — a distinct but equally demanding forging customer base requiring large structural and rotating component forgings for engines running into the multi-megawatt output range. Both companies' forging component demand reflects Friedrichshafen's century-long engineering heritage: exacting material and process specifications applied across automotive-scale volume (ZF) and heavy industrial-scale component size (MTU).
Input, output, and countershaft forgings, plus gear blanks (18CrNiMo7-6, case-hardened) for ZF's automatic and dual-clutch transmission product lines, supplied to automotive OEMs worldwide from Friedrichshafen and ZF's international manufacturing network — components requiring tight case-depth and core hardness consistency for high-cycle gearbox durability.
Axle shaft forgings, steering knuckle blanks, and control arm forgings (42CrMo4) for ZF's commercial vehicle axle systems and passenger car steering/chassis technology divisions — product lines supplied across ZF's global OEM customer base extending well beyond German automotive alone.
E-motor shaft forgings and single/multi-speed reduction gearbox component forgings for ZF's rapidly expanding e-mobility drive unit business, supplying electric axle and drive systems to automotive OEMs transitioning toward electrified powertrains — a growing share of ZF's Friedrichshafen-linked component demand.
Large-diameter crankshaft forgings and connecting rod forgings (34CrNiMo6, through-hardened) for MTU's Series 1600, 2000, and 4000 large-bore diesel and gas engines, used in marine propulsion, rail traction, defence vehicles, and stationary power generation — components at a significantly larger size and load scale than typical automotive drivetrain forgings.
Structural mounting bracket and housing component forgings for MTU engine and generator set assemblies, requiring the same rigorous material certification and dimensional documentation as MTU's rotating engine components given the critical reliability requirements of marine, rail, and defence power generation applications.
Production quality processes aligned to IATF 16949 requirements for ZF-linked automotive driveline component supply, including PPAP documentation, control plans, and process FMEA suitable for both series automotive production and lower-volume, higher-complexity engine component orders characteristic of MTU supply.
Material test certificates confirming chemistry and mechanical properties for 42CrMo4, 18CrNiMo7-6, 20MnCr5, and 34CrNiMo6 per EN 10204 3.1, with 3.2 third-party witnessed certification available for MTU's marine and defence-linked engine component requirements where classification society documentation applies.
Ultrasonic (UT) and magnetic particle (MT) inspection for large-bore crankshaft and connecting rod forgings, verifying internal soundness and surface integrity for components operating under the high cyclic stress of large diesel and gas engine service.
Consolidated ocean freight to Hamburg with onward inland transport to Friedrichshafen (Baden-Württemberg, on Lake Constance), or DDP delivery direct to the customer's facility for suppliers preferring landed-cost simplicity.
Friedrichshafen's industrial identity is unusual in combining two globally significant but quite different engineering companies within one Lake Constance town: ZF Friedrichshafen AG, the world's largest independent automotive driveline and chassis technology supplier, tracing its origins to precision gear manufacturing for Zeppelin airships in 1915, and MTU Friedrichshafen (now part of Rolls-Royce Power Systems), a leading manufacturer of large-bore diesel and gas engines for marine, rail, defence, and stationary power generation applications. For forging suppliers, this creates two genuinely distinct component demand profiles within a single geographic account — ZF's high-volume, tight-tolerance automotive driveline forgings on one hand, and MTU's larger, lower-volume, higher-unit-value engine component forgings on the other.
ZF's position as a driveline supplier to virtually every major global automotive OEM means that components qualified for ZF's Friedrichshafen-linked production frequently extend across ZF's international manufacturing network, since the company's transmission, axle, and increasingly e-mobility drive unit product lines are engineered centrally and manufactured at multiple global sites. This gives forging suppliers a meaningfully larger addressable opportunity than the Friedrichshafen site alone might suggest — a pattern shared with other German OEM headquarters cities in our supply network where qualification at the engineering centre of gravity extends well beyond the local plant.
MTU's large-bore engine business operates at a fundamentally different scale than automotive drivetrain manufacturing: a single Series 4000 engine crankshaft forging can weigh many times more than an entire automotive transmission's worth of gear and shaft forgings combined, and the marine, rail, and defence applications these engines serve carry reliability and certification requirements — including, for marine applications, classification society witnessed testing — that go beyond standard automotive IATF 16949 documentation. Shivam Forge's combined automotive and heavy engineering forging capability, including in-house NDT and EN 10204 3.2 certification availability, is built to serve both ends of this demand spectrum.
For Tier 1 automotive suppliers sourcing ZF-linked transmission, axle, or e-mobility drive unit forgings, or for MTU-linked large-bore engine component forgings, Shivam Forge offers material grades, quality documentation, and NDT capability matched to each application's specific requirements. Contact our export engineering team at +91-9265772827 or sales@shivamforge.com with your drawing and specification for a quotation.
Yes. We supply input, output, and countershaft forgings and gear blanks in 18CrNiMo7-6, case-hardened to the depth and core hardness consistency required for ZF's automatic and dual-clutch transmission product lines, with full EN 10204 3.1 material certification.
Yes. We supply large-diameter crankshaft and connecting rod forgings in 34CrNiMo6, through-hardened, with ultrasonic and magnetic particle inspection for internal soundness and surface integrity verification appropriate to MTU's marine, rail, and defence engine applications.
ZF's automotive driveline components are typically produced at higher volume with tighter dimensional tolerance requirements aligned to IATF 16949 automotive quality standards, while MTU's large-bore engine components are larger, produced at lower volume, and require correspondingly more extensive NDT and material certification given the critical reliability demands of marine, rail, and defence power generation service.
Yes. E-motor shaft forgings and reduction gearbox component forgings for ZF's e-mobility drive unit product line, reflecting the growing share of electrified powertrain components in ZF's overall Friedrichshafen-linked component demand.
Standard routing is consolidated ocean freight to Hamburg with onward inland transport to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance (Baden-Württemberg), or DDP delivery arranged directly to the customer's facility.
Why Choose Shivam Forge
Shivam Forge delivers precision hot-forged components from our integrated Shapar, Rajkot facility — covering forging, CNC machining, heat treatment, and quality inspection under one roof.
