The new trailers from BS Logistics take as much punishment as the old ones, but they weigh a ton less. The company, which develops and builds special trailers for raw forest products, opted to switch to SSAB’s 400 Brinell wear steel. It slashed welding work by 25 percent and reduced plate wastage to almost zero.
When Winkelbauer Maschinenbau got an order from Sandvik Mining & Construction Materials to provide 350 tons of Hardox 500 – including 4,383 items and 550 different parts within four months to a large crushing plant 70 km north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden – it turned to its Hardox Wearparts network for support.
Need to move a heavy load of bricks from a truck on a road, up an inaccessible incline, across the brow of a hill and manoeuvre it directly into a building on a construction site? Then Austrian crane manufacturer Palfinger almost certainly has a solution – powered by Weldox 1300 – to help you do just that.
The advanced high strength steel Docol 1000 DP, which is used for safety components in the global automotive industry, has become the key material in the new Mawok hammock which is now being launched worldwide. The properties of the steel are essential for the flexible, lightweight yet strong design that made the hammock possible.
Join us for two days of innovation, inspiration and celebration at the 12th annual Swedish Steel Prize event hosted by SSAB on November 17th and 18th, 2010.
SSAB is an official partner of the Swedish pavilion at The World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, which will run between 1 May and 31 October 2010.