For SSAB, Hardox is one of the company’s most successful products ever.
SSAB’s aim was to develop a wear plate that was both hard and tough when it produced Hardox 40 years ago. It needed to be hard to be able to withstand severe wear and tear over a long period of time and tough to be able to handle bending and intense use without cracking.
When the material was launched in 1974 as the “bendable wear plate”, it was said to be the first wear plate in the world to combine both hardness and toughness and also work well as construction steel, says Christer Offerman, a wear plate specialist at SSAB.
The fact that Hardox is an excellent structural steel has been one of the keys to its success, says Offerman.
“This is of great importance to our customers. It means that they can produce effective solutions for thin and light truck bodies, containers and buckets, which can also handle high levels of wear and tear.
