Our general structural steels are used in a wide variety of applications in steel structures, bridges, buildings, vehicles and wind towers.

Our weather-resistant structural steels are often used in bridges and provide advantages in maintenance costs.

What we offer

• Special plate dimensions: Thickness of up to 300 mm and widths of up to 3950 mm
• High steel quality: narrow analysis limits, low scatter in mechanical parameters, Z tests, all classes of ultrasound testing
• Steels with best processing properties for welding, edging and cutting

Steel grades:

Case-hardening and heat-treatable steels are usually heat-treated following final processing at the customer in order to unfold their final properties. Typical areas of application are in making tools and molds (e.g. for concrete blocks).

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Areas of application

The primary application is already in the name of shipbuilding steel: These steel grades are used for cabin structures on cruise ships. Particularly thin plates are used in large widths for such applications. These sheets exhibit best processing properties such as flatness and weldability. High-strength, thermomechanically rolled ship plates, on the other hand, are used in the offshore sector. They are used for deck superstructures on platforms or for special ships in the oil and gas industry.

Reliability and quality

We guarantee the highest safety and quality standards. We meet all the requirements of renowned classification societies:

• DNV-GL
• Registro Italiano Navale (RINA)
• Bureau Veritas (BV)
• Lloyd's Register of Shipping (LR)
• American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
• Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RMRS)

Steel grades

Dimensions

We supply standard and high-strength, thermomechanically rolled, fine-grained steels of the highest quality with minimum yield strengths ranging from 355 355 MPa to 700 MPa.

As a special grade of voestalpine steel, alform® is primarily used in applications such as steel structures, bridges, pressure pipes, vehicles and cranes.

Our thermomechanically rolled fine-grained steels are characterized by a high degree of toughness and excellent weldability. The low degree of cold cracking and high degree of toughness in the welding seam result in the highest safety standards in welded structures.

Utilization of the higher yield strength of high-strength fine-grained steels (alform plate 420 M, 460M, 500 M and 550 M) as opposed to conventional structural steels results in lower cross-sections. This leads to cost savings in lower component weights and reduced expenditures for transports, assembly and foundations as well as savings in component manufacturing, especially during welding.

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Higher stress

Machines and buildings are becoming bigger and bigger. When the size of a component is doubled in length, width and height, the weight increases by a factor of 8, while the load-bearing cross-sectional surface area only increases by a factor of 4. This increases the stress, or the weight in relation to the cross-sectional surface area, by a factor of two. High-strength steels can absorb these higher stresses, even when the component weight is reduced.

Concrete advantages

The lower weight of high-strength and ultra-high-strength heavy plates saves costs: Input material quantities, transport costs, assembly and foundation costs are reduced substantially. Costs are also saved during further processing. Thanks to favorable weldability, work can be completed more quickly and efficiently. Significantly reduced quantities of welding consumables are required, and weld seam testing is made easier.

Our program

High-strength heavy plates are available as fine-grained steels with a minimum yield strength of 620 and 700 MPa. Ultra-high-strength heavy plates are available as voestalpine special grades at 900, 960 and 1100 MPa.

• alform plate 620 M, thermomechanically rolled, high-strength fine-grained steels
• alform plate 700 M, thermomechanically rolled, high-strength fine-grained steels
• aldur 700, 900 and 960 Q, quenched and tempered, high-strength fine-grained steels
• alform plate 900 M x-treme, thermomechanically rolled, ultra-high-strength fine-grained steels
• alform plate 960 M x-treme, thermomechanically rolled, ultra-high-strength fine-grained steels
• alform plate 1100 M x-treme, thermomechanically rolled, ultra-high-strength fine-grained steels