Abrazo® Impact: quenched and tempered plates with high-impact toughness for demanding wear applications
3 September 2014
Tata Steel at Steinexpo: pavilion 2, booth P230
Tata Steel, Europe’s second largest steel producer, has extended its quenched and tempered Abrazo® plate product range with guaranteed impact toughness properties. These products are designed for the aggregates, quarrying and mining industries with thicknesses of up to 130mm. They can be used in wear applications where equipment is used at very low temperatures or where impact toughness is required. Material with guaranteed toughness levels is available as Abrazo® 400 and 450, Tata Steel’s wear resistant plate offering in 400 and 450 Brinell hardness.
The product development follows a €23 million investment in Tata Steel’s Clydebridge and Dalzell sites over the last three years. The investment has strengthened the company’s product range, providing the lifting and excavating equipment industry with a range of plate products suitable for demanding wear or structural applications.
The roller-quenched steel has been developed over a number of years through Tata Steel’s close working relationships with its customers in the mining, quarrying and construction industries. The addition of new equipment and processes in Scotland has enhanced production capacity as well as capabilities, for instance key parameters like furnace atmosphere can be accurately controlled, leading to improvements in surface finish. Furthermore, the investment has enabled an increase in finished plate width – up to as much as 3200mm on request – meaning larger components can be produced by customers in one piece and manufacturing processes such as nesting are optimised. Additionally, the quenching and tempering capacity has been increased by 50 per cent to 160,000 tonnes per year following the investment. A wide range of stamping and marking options are available, including new automatic stamping, leading to excellent product traceability.
Phil Clements, Head of Lifting & Excavating, said: “Tata Steel works closely with many of the world’s leading OEMs and offers one of the widest portfolios of high-performance steel products for the lifting and excavating sector. Our partnership approach ensures that we really know what customers in the surface mining industry need. In line with this approach our recent investments have been designed to further improve our Abrazo® and RQT® product portfolio which now offers even higher impact toughness for demanding wear applications.”
The investment included the installation of a new heavy-plate press at Dalzell which has significantly increased the site’s capacity to provide very thick plate with particular flatness qualities as required by customers. The final plate product can be supplied in the as-processed, shotblasted and primed conditions.
In Germany, Tata Steel has strengthened its commitment to the surface mining market by improving the local availability of required products. The complete range of quenched and tempered Abrazo® and RQT® products is now easily available via the subsidiary Blume Stahlservice, located in Mülheim an der Ruhr. This improvement means Tata Steel can provide its German customers with the products they need, when they are needed, and better serve them with on-the-ground, specialist expertise and industry knowledge.
Tata Steel provides a range of specialist technical support and advice to customers allowing them to select the right product and get the best out of it. Through its extensive research, development and test facilities the company offers in-depth services to its customers, ranging from information on cutting, cold bending and welding, through to intelligent use of products to reduce manufacturing costs.
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Carlo Di Terlizzi, Tata Steel Lifting & Excavating, on T. +44 (0)1902 484215 or carlo.diterlizzi@tatasteel.com
Ingo Trenkner, pr people, on T. +49 (0)208 299933 13 or i.trenkner@pr-people.de
Note for Editors:
Tata Steel’s Lifting & Excavating sector serves the CEME (Construction and Earthmoving Equipment), cranes, mining and fork lift truck industries.
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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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