Tata Steel to highlight expanded product portfolio at EuroBLECH
11 September 2014
Tata Steel at EuroBLECH (21st to 25th October 2014): Hall 17, Stand G38
Tata Steel will use this year’s EuroBLECH as a platform to highlight several extensions to its portfolio of high quality steel products that will further support the ambitions of its customers in key global markets. Citing examples from its hot-rolled, cold-rolled and metallic coated coil product range, Europe’s second largest steel producer will demonstrate how the latest additions are helping to reduce customers’ manufacturing costs, support lightweighting and improve performance.
Tata Steel’s hot-rolled strip product range is recognised in the market for its predictable, reliable characteristics which make it the ideal choice for a range of processes such as bending, deep drawing and roll forming. Now the steel producer is adding to its hot-rolled range with further portfolio extensions to support growing end-market needs. One example is the steel producer’s range of low sulphur clean steels which improve processability, offering advantages such as enhanced weldability and higher edge ductility.
The company has also developed a tailor made range of High-Strength Low Alloy (HSLA) steels to support a variety of processing and performance requirements.
Tata Steel has taken the same approach in cold-rolled strip products, expanding its product range by focusing on product advantages such as improved formability and strength. In this product line, Advanced and Ultra High-Strength steels (UHSS) enable lightweighting whilst maintaining existing performance levels. Developments in the company’s metallic coated range include products whose coating weight is reduced while maintaining or even improving coating durability.
New products as a direct result of collaboration
“In direct response to growing market needs and customers’ manufacturing ambitions, Tata Steel has both expanded its product portfolio and enhanced the characteristics of its existing products. Many of these new products are the direct result of our collaborations with customers,” said Henrik Adam, Tata Steel’s Chief Commercial Officer in Europe. “In some instances we are extending our product performance to give our customers what they need today. In others, we’re intensifying innovation in order to meet the requirements they will have tomorrow. For example as a result we have improved our position in the automotive industry, providing advanced products which help customers deliver cost, lightweighting and performance improvements.”
New products include hot-dip galvanised steel developed to help the automotive industry achieve both crash-protection and lightweighting. Other developments have focused on dynamic car styling and lightweighting. For lifting & excavating customers looking for highly formable material that can bear heavy loads, Tata Steel is offering new developments in hot-rolled, high-strength steels.
Some key additions to the portfolio include:
- Additions to the hot-rolled, high-strength steel portfolio by developing tougher, stronger steels which can operate in the harshest environments or deliver weight savings, including Ympress® S700MC Impact and S650MC.
- Metallic coated steels DP1000HY-GI and CP800-GI, developed specifically for the automotive industry and offering high strength with greater formability. These steels enable lightweighting of complex components whilst maintaining safety performance. Other developments for outer body panels offer improved surface quality or extreme formability, such as DX57 HyperForm®.
- Heat treatable steels for re-rollers, which offer end customers excellent formability and good punching quality and are ideal for wear-resistant end market applications such as safety components for the automotive sector that must withstand extreme fatigue stress. New product launches include C15E case-hardening steel as well as high carbon steels such as C55S, C60S, C67S, C75S and C80S.
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Images:
| Tata Steel_new steel chemistries.jpg: Through the development of new steel chemistries, Tata Steel’s expanded range of heat treatable steels offer re-rollers predictable and consistent steel products. |
| Tata Steel_material and technical support.jpg: Tata Steel’s material and technical support services provide advice and support, helping customers to widen their operating windows or improve end market applications. |
| Tata Steel_coils ready for dispatch to customers.jpg: Tata Steel’s hot-rolled, cold-rolled and metallic coated coil products are supplied to tight thickness tolerances and consistency in terms of formability, weldability, mechanical properties and chemistry. |
| Tata Steel_body structure.jpg: Developed specifically for the automotive industry, the metallic coated steels DP1000HY-GI and CP800-GI offer high strength with greater formability enable lightweighting of complex components whilst maintaining safety performance. |
For further information, contact:
Kathryn Swinglehurst, Tata Steel, Tel: +44 (0)1536 404005 Mail: Kathryn.swinglehurst@tatasteel.com
Ingo Trenkner, pr people, Tel: +49 (0)208 299933 13, Mail: i.trenkner@pr-people.de
About Tata Steel’s European operations
Tata Steel is Europe's second largest steel producer, with steelmaking in the UK and Netherlands, and manufacturing plants across Europe. The company supplies products and services to the most demanding markets, including construction, automotive, packaging, rail, lifting & excavating, energy & power and aerospace. The combined Tata Steel group is one of the world’s largest steel producers, with a steel capacity of 29 million tonnes and 80,000 employees across four continents.
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