Packaging components in food and beverage processing require corrosion- and wear-resistant BÖHLER steels with excellent surface quality and hygiene properties. Key quality features include ultra-clean materials, full traceability, controlled heat treatment, and verified surface integrity for safe packaging processes.
Packaging operations in food and beverage processing require materials that ensure product safety, durability, and hygienic performance under continuous industrial use. Components such as forming tools, sealing jaws, cutting elements, and guiding systems are exposed to mechanical stress, friction, and frequent cleaning cycles with aggressive media. Material requirements therefore focus on high wear resistance, corrosion resistance, dimensional stability, and excellent surface quality. In addition, materials must support hygienic design with smooth, cleanable surfaces to prevent contamination and ensure compliance with food safety regulations.
BÖHLER high-performance steels and alloys are specifically developed to meet these demanding packaging requirements. Advanced stainless steels, including austenitic, martensitic, and precipitation-hardened grades, as well as wear-resistant tool steels, provide an optimized combination of strength, corrosion resistance, and durability. Produced using advanced melting technologies, BÖHLER materials ensure high purity and homogeneous microstructures, which support reliable processing and extended service life. Key quality features include precise control of chemical composition, certified traceability, and validated heat treatment processes to achieve consistent mechanical and surface properties. Comprehensive inspection, including surface integrity verification and hygienic performance testing, ensures compliance with industry standards. BÖHLER materials enable efficient, safe, and long-lasting packaging solutions in food processing environments.
BÖHLER K110 is a 12% ledeburitic chromium steel and corresponds to material number 1.2379 (X153CrMoV12, D2). This tool steel combines the advantages of conventional 12% ledeburitic chromium steels with those of advanced tool steels. In the group of 12% ledeburitic chromium steels, BÖHLER K110 offers the best combination of wear resistance, compressive strength and toughness, for which reason it is used in virtually all cold work applications. Its advantageous tempering behavior with a pronounced secondary hardness maximum also enables the use of advanced coatings. This also makes BÖHLER K110 suitable for complex tools requiring a high degree of dimensional stability and shape stability.
Read MoreBÖHLER M310 ISOPLAST is a corrosion-resistant, martensitic chromium steel which, through electroslag remelting and optimization of the chemical composition, has a good homogeneity and a balanced hardness-toughness-corrosion resistance ratio.
Read MoreBÖHLER M390 MICROCLEAN is a corrosion-resistant, martensitic chromium steel produced by powder metallurgy. Due to its alloy design, this steel has very high wear resistance and good corrosion resistance. In addition, BÖHLER M390 MICROCLEAN is approved for food and beverage contact.
Read MoreBÖHLER S390 MICROCLEAN – “The decathlete” This grade is our PM steel with many positive usage properties. For twist drills, taps, mills, broaches, or cold-work applications, BÖHLER S390 MICROCLEAN is always a high performer.
Read MoreUddeholm Sleipner is a general purpose steel for cold work tooling. It has a mixed-abrasive wear profile and a good resistance to chipping. Furthermore a high hardness (>60 HRC) can be obtained after high temperature tempering. This means that surface treatments such as nitriding or PVD can be made on a high strength substrate. Also, it means that complicated shapes with hardness levels >60 HRC can be wire EDM’d from blocks with relatively thick cross-sections with a much reduced risk of cracking. Uddeholm Sleipner is recommended for medium run tooling applications where a resistance to mixed or abrasive wear and a good resistance to chipping are required. Benefits Very broad property profile Very good steel for all types of surface treatments Extremely versatile conventional tool steel for medium run cold work tooling Suitable upgrade where added chipping or wear resistance is needed over traditional AISI A2 or AISI D2 In East/South East Asian countries served by ASSAB, Uddeholm Sleipner is sold as ASSAB 88.
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