Industrial components require BÖHLER steels with high strength, durability, and wear resistance. Key quality features include ultra-clean materials, full traceability, controlled heat treatment, and rigorous testing for reliable performance.
Other industrial components across diverse sectors are subject to a wide range of mechanical, thermal, and environmental stresses, requiring materials with versatile and reliable performance characteristics. Applications such as housings, connectors, structural elements, and precision parts must withstand dynamic loading, wear, and in many cases corrosive environments, while maintaining dimensional stability and consistent functionality. Material requirements therefore focus on high strength, fatigue resistance, toughness, wear resistance, and, where necessary, corrosion and temperature resistance. In addition, good machinability and process stability are essential for efficient manufacturing and cost-effective production.
BÖHLER high-performance steels and alloys are specifically engineered to meet these diverse industrial demands. Advanced alloyed steels, stainless steels, tool steels, and specially tailored grades provide optimized combinations of mechanical strength, durability, and environmental resistance. Produced using advanced melting and refining technologies, BÖHLER materials ensure superior cleanliness, low inclusion content, and homogeneous microstructures, enabling reliable and repeatable performance across applications. Key quality features include strict control of chemical composition, certified traceability, and precisely controlled heat treatment processes. Comprehensive testing, including mechanical verification, wear assessment, and non-destructive inspection, ensures consistent quality. BÖHLER materials enable robust, efficient, and long-lasting solutions for a broad spectrum of industrial components.
BÖHLER K353 belongs to the group of conventionally produced 8% chromium steels. It is used in situations where chipper steels like 1.2360 are insufficient in terms of wear resistance and tool steels like 1.2379 (D2) do not have sufficient toughness. BÖHLER K353 is especially suitable for industrial knives for the woodworking industry. It is also used for stamping and cutting tools.
Read MoreBÖHLER N700 is a martensitic, corrosion-resistant, precipitation-hardenable chromium-nickel-copper steel with high strength and toughness. Further increases in strength can be achieved by cold forming and subsequent precipitation hardening. These products are typically used for parts that require higher corrosion resistance than the usual 13% or 17% chromium steels and high strength. Various remelting processes are used to improve steel purity and homogeneity. (ESR, PESR, VAR). Certain processing methods and operating conditions can make these products susceptible to stress corrosion cracking. For applications such as bolting where stress corrosion cracking is possible, the product should be aged for at least 4 hours at the highest temperature compatible with the strength requirements, but in no case lower than 552 °C. Typical engineering applications include surgical and dental instruments as well as aerospace components, reactor construction, highly stressed pump parts, springs and ship shafts.
Read MoreBÖHLER P802SA is an iron-36% nickel alloy with low thermal expansion for the manufacture of moulds for aircraft construction and for the electronics industry, for measuring instruments (e.g. rulers, scales), temperature measuring instruments and temperature-dependent controls, thermostats, thermobimetals whose individual layers should have the greatest possible difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion, compensation elements, aperture masks for picture tubes, glass-metal transitions in which the expansion of the alloy must correspond to that of glass and ceramic materials, membrane tanks, chip base plates, laser housings, waveguides and seismographic measuring instruments. The minimum coefficient of thermal expansion of BÖHLER P802SA is in the range of 0 to 40°C. Above the break point at about 200°C, the coefficient of expansion increases sharply and reaches the values usual for austenitic materials at temperatures above 300°C. Good low-temperature properties
Read MoreBÖHLER S600 – “The high-speed steel” Ideal for mills, twist drills, and taps, broaches, cold-work tools. BÖHLER S600 is the most commonly used high-speed steel and is the starting material for our customers who deal with high-speed steel.
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