Hardox®, the hardest and toughest wear steel, celebrates 50 years and goes emission free.
Celebrating 50 years and in better shape than ever, with emission-free Hardox® wear plateThe year 1974 saw a breakthrough in steelmaking when steelmaker SSAB introduced the world’s first bendable wear plate. A unique combination of hardness and toughness helped to solve the issue of brittleness in conventional abrasion-resistant steels, which were nearly impossible to bend and could not withstand heavy impact in use.
In 1983, SSAB’s mill in Oxelösund, Sweden, created a truly hard wear plate that was branded as Hardox[® ]– a name that perfectly describes its strength. Today, it’s still
