But it was Borbet’s success in developing the technique of centrifugal casting that allowed the famous 8.8 centimetre anti-aircraft gun developed jointly by Krupp and Rheinmetall to be put into low-cost mass-production. Walter Rohland, for his part, made the Deutsche Edelstahlwerke into the first choice for Panzer hulls. Not only did the Krefeld works provide top quality electrically
