Trailer performance that goes the extra mile
With Strenx® high-strength structural steel, your trailers will be lighter in weight and still have better payload and use less fuel.
Fight gravity. Lighter and stronger designs, from idea to reality
Strenx® is stronger and can be used in thinner dimensions to make lighter structures. Whether it comes to design and manufacturing or day-to-day use with the final product, Strenx® offers unparalleled advantages.
Discover a value chain that elevates your business to new heights—in the workshop, in the fields, on the road, or on construction sites.
Performance and efficiency all the way. From design and manufacturing processes, to finished application
1. Innovate more. Design smarter
As a product designer or engineer, when you choose to work with Strenx®, you not only choose the world's premier high-strength structural steel, but you also get access to the thought-leading capabilities of SSAB. Identify new business opportunities or explore the limits of innovation together with us.
2. Reliability and efficiency
Through constant process improvements, we can deliver Strenx® steel with a unique set of guarantees for thickness, flatness, and bending properties. Strenx® guarantees are your safeguard for trouble-free production and predictable workshop performance—day after day, year after year.
3. Unparalleled trailer performance
Strenx® will make vehicles and equipment stronger, lighter, safer, more competitive, and more sustainable. The transport industry is constantly looking for ways to increase payload while improving fuel efficiency for every loaded ton, unit, or passenger. An impossible equation? Not with Strenx®.
Explore the full value of Strenx® within transportation
As a product designer or engineer, working with Strenx® means more than choosing the world’s premier high-strength structural steel — it means gaining access to SSAB’s industry-specific expertise. Download the guide tailored to your segment and discover how to unlock new opportunities and push the boundaries of performance.
Game-Changing Trailer: Mantella Stratosphere 3.0 - Award-winning lightweight trailer
Strenx® has a yield strength between 600 and 1300 MPa and comes in thicknesses between 0.7 and 160 mm. All the grades and dimensions are vocered by Strenx® guarantees for thickness, flatness and bending.
Leading the transportation industry with Strenx®
Thousands of businesses all over the world have discovered Strenx® high-strength structural steel, and the difference it can mean to their applications. Learn more about how Strenx® has created direct positive impact for different industries.
Bolognesi y Goren timber trailers in Strenx® 700MC steel are safer and 15% lighter
With Strenx® high-performance steel from SSAB, Bolognesi y Goren from Santiago, Chile, reduced the weight of its equipment by 15%, making it safer and more efficient to haul timber.
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Technology transformation in the trailer industry: Recasy Trailers boosts competitiveness with Strenx® 960 from SSAB
For the company, the application of steel not only redefines performance and durability standards, but also drives its vision towards a sustainable innovation horizon
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Fesan trailer chassis in Strenx® steel help drive business forward
Turkish trailer and tipper manufacturer Fesan Makina’s key driver is customer satisfaction. So when customers started asking for stronger and lighter equipment, that is exactly what they got. Fesan switched to Strenx® performance steel in its new tipper trailer chassis to keep customers happy and maintain a market-leading position.
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The Hidroamerica flatbed trailer weighs 36% less when made in 100% Strenx® steel
With an ultralight version, Colombian company Hidroamerica has completely redesigned its trailers. Thanks to Strenx® 700 they can make a much lighter chassis, increase payload and boost profitability.
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Mantella trailer chassis design in Strenx® 960 Plus steel breaks new ground
Mantella, the Italian trailer manufacturer, recently redesigned its Stratosphere tipper trailer with Strenx® 960 Plus. The company implemented major advances in body and chassis design in the use of high-strength steels from SSAB. As a result, it revolutionized the design of its innovative Stratosphere tipper trailer and saw the benefits skyrocket.
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Strenx® high-strength structural steel helps trailers cut weight and move more freight
Librelato, a prominent Brazilian manufacturer of semi-trailers, produces grain trailers that weigh less, carry more, and meet tough demands thanks to Strenx® performance steel. It is Brazil’s third largest trailer manufacturer, one of the country’s fasting growing companies, and a winner of numerous industry awards. Strenx® performance steels are playing a key role in its growth success story.
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Champion Hoist revolutionizes scissor lifts with weight-saving design using Strenx® performance steel
US based Champion Hoist and Equipment takes the checkered flag with an efficient, first-to-market scissor lift designed to feature Strenx® high performance steel manufactured by SSAB. Champion’s lighter model not only delivers high yield strength to manage the heaviest loads, but also maintains structural integrity, while reducing overall gross vehicle weight by nearly a quarter ton.
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Dry bulk trailers haul in savings and drive profits
Sales are up, and so is customer satisfaction. Since Acoplados Salto began to manufacture its grain semi-trailers and dry bulk trailers using high-strength Strenx® performance steel and Hardox® wear plate from SSAB, the company has seen both demand and sales grow.
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Dionbilt’s lightweight trailers drive high performance with Strenx® redesign
Dionbilt Trailers in Washington, US, developed a winning formula for making lightweight trailers with the Strenx® 100 grade high-strength structural steel. Moving up from T-1 steel made the trailers easier to produce, lighter and more attractive.
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Cross Country Manufacturing tips scales with lighter, stronger side dump design
Why change a proven design? When heavy-haul customers asked for a durable, lighter and stronger trailer with higher payload capacity, Cross Country Manufacturing’s engineers stepped up to the challenge.
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Armcon’s volumetric concrete mixers are stronger, lighter, and better looking with subframes redesigned in Strenx®
When volumetric concrete mixer producer Armcon needed to comply with vehicle weight restrictions, reduce costs and cut lead times yet maintain durability and quality, it turned to Strenx® 700MC and Hardox® 450.
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Triel HT lightens their load, gains major savings in tank semitrailers
Here’s one way to fight rising input and maintenance costs: Do like Triel HT, who upgraded their chassis design and got 5% more load capacity – plus a lighter chassis, higher payload & greater revenues.
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Gsodam reduced timber trailer weight by 20% with Strenx® steel
Since switching to Strenx® 700MC steel, Gsodam, an Austrian manufacturer of vehicles for hauling timber, has reduced trailer weight by up to 20 percent. Thanks to being built light and durable, their timber trailers get increased load capacity.
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Less is more – higher load in every trip
In this scenario 1,050 kg of Strenx® 700 high strength steel replaces 1,500 kg of conventional 355 MPa steel. Thismeans a weight reduction of 30% for the upgraded parts. The maximum allowed total vehicle weight is 40 tons, and with this upgrade the load capacity is increases by 2%, from 26 tons to 26.5 tons, reducing the fuel consumption per transported ton of cargo.
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CO2 emissions payback in 3 months
The longitudinal beams of the trailer were upgraded from yield strength 310 MPa to Strenx® 700, saving 350 kg of weight, or 37%, of the upgraded parts. The total weight of the timber trailer could be reduced by an additional 150 kg through changes in design in other parts of the chassis. In total, the trailer´s load capacity was increased by 500 kg.
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Streamlined savings
The containers on this truck and trailer combination were upgraded from S235 standard steel to Strenx® 700MC, saving 560 kg per container. This increases the payload per trip by 1,680 kg for the total vehicle with three containers and also reduces the fuel consumption for the empty vehicle. Through an optimised design the wind drag is reduced, which further reduces the fuel consumption.
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From good to great
In this ultra-light tipper chassis 610 kg of Strenx® 960 Plus replaces 750 kg of S700MC steel. And in the body, 830 kg of Hardox® 500 Tuf steel replaces 1,000 kg of Hardox® 450. This means a total weight reduction of 18% for the upgraded parts. This doubled the life time of the body to 12 years, eliminating the need to change the body on this chassis. In addition to this the weight was reduced by 310 kgs, which increased the load capacity with the same amount.
Read moreMy Inner Strenx®. Drive the performance of your business
Being a member of My Inner Strenx® brings many advantages to companies with a drive to make the best possible products using Strenx® performance steel. My Inner Strenx® aims to support the development of high-performance equipment through collaboration between OEMs and SSAB. By working together with SSAB’s specialists in designing and manufacturing using high-strength structural steel, your products—and your business—will benefit.
Find the right Strenx® steel for your lifting equipment
From loader cranes to forestry equipment. Strenx® steel creates value, from design and manufacturing to the daily use of the finished application. Explore the difference Strenx® makes in different kinds of lifting equipment.
Lowbed Trailers
A platform trailer with a lower deck height, allowing the trailer to carry bigger loads and heavy equipment such as tractors, bulldozers and excavators.
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Flatbed Trailers
A trailer with a flatbed without sides or roof, often equipped with a crane. Used for bulky loads, easily accessed from the sides.
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Dump Trailers
Curtain Sider Trailers
A flexible flat-deck trailer with a curtain side, used for transporting packed non temperature-sensitive cargo.
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Van Trailers
The most commonly used trailer. Fully enclosed, versatile and cost efficient.
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Timber Trailers
Trailers for carrying timber, both in difficult terrain and on paved roads.
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Cement Bulk Trailers
A trailer used to transport powder cargo such as cement, flour and chemical powders.
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