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Tailored Blank applications have become more and more important for the advanced light weight and cost effective steel automobile body. During the last decade, the production of Tailored Blanks with a straight weldline has been constantly increasing because their technical and economical advantages are well accepted by automobile manufacturers /1, 2, 3, 4/. But, now the body engineers prefer to have an even more flexible product with specific weldline design, according to the engineering design needs. Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG reacted quickly on this demand and now offers the new product called, Thyssen Engineered Blanks (TEB®s), which meets almost all the needs for the design of components concerning weld-line geometry and weld-line positioning. With our new production line, both single and multiple steel sheets can now be joined together with linear weld-lines, angled weld-lines and curved laser beam weld-lines, Figure 1.