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The Strongest Advanced High Strength Steel
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Docol and the automotive industry

Docol is currently one of the strongest cold-rolled advanced high strength steels on the market also ensuring lightweight design for different automotive components.

Seat tracks made of Docol by Johnson Controls, South Korea.

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  • SSAB and the automotive industry: Lightweight solutions for Chrysler

    Iroquois Industries Inc., of Warren, MI, USA is a leading manufacturer of stamped automotive parts in the USA. Iroquois Industries had made a front suspension upper control arm, the DR UCA, for the Dodge Ram Pick-up truck for the previous two years. Chrysler’s demand was to reduce the mass of the UCA of the Dodge Ram Pick-up Truck 2009. That arm was referred to as the DS UCA.

  • SSAB meets the high requirements of Fiat

    The traditional customer-supplier relationship between steel makers and car manufacturers has developed into something completely new. The business relationship between Fiat and SSAB is a striking example of this. When managers of Fiat Group Automobiles use the key word “evolution”, they thereby refer not only to materials but also to the relationship with SSAB.

  • Ultra-high strength steel for high speed collisions

    The Shape Corporation USA combines the best of two production methods - roll forming and pressing. The new light bumber is a breakthrough by using the properties of ultra-high strength steels.

  • Roll forming of advanced high strength steels

    The vast majority of Superior Roll Forming’s customers are car manufacturers. “They expect that we continuously develop our processes, techniques and the products we manufacture” says Kevin Synk. “How do you do that? Roll forming a piece of steel can’t be improved that much, can it?”

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New automotive brochure available!

The new SSAB automotive brochure focuses on Docol Advanced High Strength Steels for the automotive industry.

Datasheets

Find data sheets with descriptions of the Advanced High Strength Steels for Docol. Docol is SSAB’s brand of cold-rolled steels for lighter and safer solutions for the automotive industry.

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