COR-TEN® is a genuine beauty. Using COR-TEN® steel ensures that appearance, longevity and mechanical properties of the material fulfills your expectations, as well as the expectations of your clients.
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COR-TEN® steel from SSAB is easy to work with and give your buildings and products the long-term performance you are looking for.
COR-TEN® steel has excellent properties for forming, machining and welding. The COR-TEN® portfolio includes a wide range of grades with mechanical properties and dimensional tolerances that generally exceed the standards given by EN 10025-5, and ASTM grades.
For a hands-on experience of COR-TEN® as a façade material, you are welcome to order a sample of the steel before the patina has formed. Just place the sample outdoors and experience the patina formation process for yourself.
SSAB makes COR-TEN® from the exceptionally clean iron ore extracted in Swedish mines, ensuring a pure final product.
Crucial to the forming of a solid and long-lasting patina is the alloying elements. The most important are copper, chromium, nickel and phosphorous. They all have to be present in the right proportions. Since COR-TEN® A from SSAB is made at a dedicated steel mill, the chemistry balance it strictly preserved for every batch.
The way COR-TEN® A performs on a building or any other steel structure is a result of the process, the steel’s cleanliness and the chemistry. Based on a century’s old steelmaking tradition, SSAB knows how to keep these parameters and properties in check.
COR-TEN® A has mechanical properties and dimensional tolerances that generally exceed the standards given by EN 10025-5.
COR-TEN® A for building façades and structures conforms to established standards, including EN S355J2WP, ASTM 588 Grade A, ASTM A 242 Type 2 and has the material number 1.8946.
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Christensen & Co Architects used COR-TEN® steel panels for the design of Helsingør Power Plant's new HQ. The Cube is a rusty-red building that corresponds with the colours of the surroundings.
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To ensure COR-TEN® is available whenever you need it, you can order from SSAB's network of local stocks, directly from the mill or from dedicated distribution partners all over Europe. It's the SSAB way of providing high availability and fast delivery of premium steel.
