alform® ist ein feinkörniger Baustahl und zeichnet sich durch optimale Formbarkeit und Gewichtseinsparung aus.

High-strength premium steel for mechanical engineering

alform® is a fine-grained structural steel with the best cold forming properties, very good flexibility and weldability as well as significant potential for weight savings. Depending on the area of application, different strength classes are available to meet each design requirement and score points with excellent surface quality.

High-strength steel in various shapes and sizes

As a coil, slit strip or sheet made of hot-rolled or cold-rolled steel strip or heavy plate, alform® steels meet the highest aesthetic and economic requirements in the final application. 

alform® steels are available as sheet metal made of hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel strip.

Cut-to-length sheet made of hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel strip

alform® steels are available as slit strip made of hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel strip.

Slit strip made of hot-rolled and
cold-rolled steel strip

alform® steels are available as coils made of hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel strip.

Coils made of hot-rolled and
cold-rolled steel strip

alform® steels are available as heavy plate.

Heavy plates

alform® steels are characterized by weight and volume reduction, best cutting suitability and many other properties.

Extreme performance

The alform® grades are weldable and edgeable fine-grained structural steels with excellent material properties: 

  • Weight and volume reduction
  • Best cuttability
  • Excellent cold formability
  • Excellent toughness
  • Excellent flatness
  • Clean surface
  • Excellent weldability

Economization strategies in demanding lightweight applications

The following figure shows the potential savings achieved by implementing ultra-high-strength steels in a bending beam under static load. This is a rectangular hollow profile section (120 mm x 80 mm x thickness) that was longitudinally welded with a V seam and a bending moment of 50 kNm.

Savings in light-weight design can be achieved in many different ways with alform® steels.

Fine-grained structural steel for a wide range of applications in mechanical engineering

alform® M

Thermomechanically rolled alform® steels have a low-carbon, fine-grained microstructure and are thus very well suited to forming and welding.

alform® M is a high-strength premium steel for the construction of forestry equipment.
The steels of the alform® MU series are thermomechanically rolled and are convincing with the excellent cold formability of punched edges.

alform® MU

Micro-alloyed and thermomechanically rolled alform® steels are characterized by excellent cold formability of the punched edges.

alform® N

These normalized-rolled alform® steels achieve the listed mechanical properties in as-delivered condition and after being additionally normalized.

The normalized-rolled steels of the alform® N series score high points with excellent cold formability and are ideally suited to railcar design.
New geometries can be achieved in knuckle-boom cranes with alform® x-treme, ultra-high-strength sheets.

alform® x-treme

The high-strength and ultra-high-strength alform® x-treme steels make efficient light-weight design and maximum weight savings possible. Available as hot-rolled strip, cold-rolled strip and heavy plate

alform® laser

Normalized-rolled or thermomechanically rolled, alform® laser steels are particularly suitable for laser cutting. This is achieved by guaranteed maximum flatness deviations of 3 mm per 1 m and narrowest thickness tolerances.

the high-strength steels called alform® laser are score high points with excellent laser cuttability.
Thermomechanically rolled steel is convincing with excellent mechanical properties in a wide range of machinery applications.

Thermomechanically rolled steel for outstanding mechanical properties

voestalpine has established itself as a pioneer and quality leader in the production of thermomechanically rolled steels. This method achieves mechanical-technological properties that cannot be achieved by heat treatment alone. In addition to very good toughness, thermomechanically rolled steels are also characterized by better weldability than regular annealed steels.