ArcelorMittal launches Amstrong™ Wear 400, a new high-strength steel with outstanding resistance to abrasion

3 August 2015 – Mechanical engineering, heavy loading, transportation and mining industries all share the same concern: abrasion and wear. Directly addressing this concern, ArcelorMittal has launched a new steel solution, Amstrong™ Wear 400, high-strength steel with outstanding resistance to abrasion that significantly improves the service life of machines and parts compared to conventional high-strength steels.

Amstrong™ Wear 400 is designed for heavy industrial applications exposed to severe wear, such as tipper trucks, chutes, feeder systems, agricultural skips, waste containers, slurry pipelines and parts that come into contact with grains, sand, stones or soil.

Hardness, bendability and weldability combined in one single product

As fuel prices rise and emission targets become more restrictive, many industrial sectors are seeking stronger, more lightweight equipment in order to reduce operating costs, carry heavier loads and reduce the number of required operations.

Thanks to its high yield strength[1], high tensile strength, toughness at low temperatures and resistance to fatigue, Amstrong™ Wear 400 is the perfect choice of steel to address these needs, reducing structural thickness and weight while improving load‑bearing capacity, thus generating cost savings and securing market share for its users.

Its exceptional hardness[2] ensures consistent resistance to abrasion that is up to three times greater[3] than conventional high-strength steels. Thanks to its low carbon content, Amstrong™ Wear 400 also features excellent weldability compared to equivalent high-strength steel grades.

Amstrong™ Wear 400 is produced using a quenching process to ensure homogenous, consistent mechanical properties from one batch to the next. It is available as cut-to-length sheets in thicknesses of 4-6 mm, widths of 1,000-1,650 mm and lengths of 800-12,000 mm.

[1] Amstrong™ Wear 400 has a high yield strength of 1000 MPa (megapascals) and an impact toughness of 27 joules at -40°C

[2] Guaranteed hardness values (360-420 HBW, Brinell scale) to ensure consistent abrasion resistance 

[3] Up to three times less weight lost under sliding sand tests compared to conventional high strength steel grades

Press contact: Arne Langner, arne.langner@arcelormittal.com

About ArcelorMittal

Europe
ArcelorMittal employs more than 100,000 people and produces approximately half of its total steel volume in Europe. With a presence in 17 European countries and around 400 different sites, ArcelorMittal Europe had revenues of €35 billion and a crude steel production of 43 million tonnes in 2014. We supply flat and long steel products for all major steel markets, including the automotive, construction, packaging and household appliances industry – supported by a leading R&D and distribution network with 9 laboratories and 1,000 full-time researchers in Europe.

Worldwide
ArcelorMittal is the world's leading steel and mining company, with a presence in 60 countries and an industrial footprint in 19 countries. Guided by a philosophy to produce safe, sustainable steel, we are the leading supplier of quality steel in the major global steel markets including automotive, construction, household appliances and packaging, with world-class research and development and outstanding distribution networks.

Through our core values of sustainability, quality and leadership, we operate responsibly with respect to the health, safety and wellbeing of our employees, contractors and the communities in which we operate.

For us, steel is the fabric of life, as it is at the heart of the modern world from railways to cars and washing machines. We are actively researching and producing steel-based technologies and solutions that make many of the products and components people use in their everyday lives more energy efficient.

We are one of the world’s five largest producers of iron ore and metallurgical coal and our mining business is an essential part of our growth strategy. With a geographically diversified portfolio of iron ore and coal assets, we are strategically positioned to serve our network of steel plants and the external global market. While our steel operations are important customers, our supply to the external market is increasing as we grow.

In 2014, ArcelorMittal had revenues of US$79.3 billion and crude steel production of 93.1 million tonnes, while own iron ore production reached 63.9 million tonnes.

ArcelorMittal is listed on the stock exchanges of New York (MT), Amsterdam (MT), Paris (MT), Luxembourg (MT) and on the Spanish stock exchanges of Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Valencia (MTS).

For more information about ArcelorMittal please visit: http://corporate.arcelormittal.com/

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