Food processing components require approved corrosion-resistant BÖHLER stainless steels with high surface quality and hygiene performance. Key quality features include ultra-clean materials, full traceability, controlled heat treatment, and verified cleanability for safe operation.
Components used in food and beverage processing must meet stringent requirements regarding hygiene, corrosion resistance, and mechanical performance. Materials are exposed to cleaning chemicals, moisture, temperature variations, and mechanical stresses, while also requiring full compliance with strict food safety regulations. Key material requirements include excellent corrosion resistance, resistance to pitting and stress corrosion cracking, high surface quality, and ease of cleaning to prevent contamination. In addition, materials must maintain their mechanical integrity and dimensional stability over long service periods.
BÖHLER high-performance steels and alloys are specifically developed for these demanding sanitary environments. Austenitic, martensitic, and precipitation-hardened stainless steels are widely used due to their excellent corrosion resistance, strength, and polishability. Optimized chemical composition and advanced melting technologies ensure high purity and homogeneous microstructures, supporting superior surface finish and hygiene performance. Key quality features include strict control of composition, certified traceability, and validated heat treatment processes. Surface integrity, cleanability, and resistance to cleaning agents are verified through comprehensive testing. BÖHLER materials enable safe, durable, and compliant solutions for critical components in food and beverage processing.
BÖHLER K490 MICROCLEAN is a high-performance cold work tool steel with a balanced property profile, manufactured using powder metallurgy. This powder metallurgical tool steel offers an outstanding combination of high wear resistance, compressive strength, toughness and very good machinability. Thanks to the resulting flexibility, BÖHLER K490 MICROCLEAN is used in virtually all cold work applications, and in many cases this material is the first choice for newly developed tools. The commonly used hardening temperatures of BÖHLER K490 MICROCLEAN also enable shared heat treatment with popular cold work tool steels (1.2379, D2), making it very economical in terms of heat treatment.
Read MoreBÖHLER M303 is a corrosion-resistant, martensitic chromium steel with very good toughness, corrosion resistance, good wear resistance and improved machinability and polishability. Compared to 1.2316, BÖHLER M303 has better homogeneity and is approved for food and beverage contact.
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 M315 is a prehardened, corrosion-resistant martensitic plastic mold steel. Due to its chemical composition, BÖHLER M315 has improved machinability compared to 1.2085 and is approved for food contact.
Read MoreBÖHLER M340 ISOPLAST corresponds to a corrosion-resistant, martensitic chromium steel with improved wear resistance. This is ideal for the application area of glass fiber reinforced plastics. In addition, the BÖHLER M340 ISOPLAST is approved for food and beverage contact.
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 M398 MICROCLEAN is a corrosion-resistant, martensitic chromium steel produced by powder metallurgy. Due to its alloy design, this steel has good corrosion resistance and higher wear resistance compared to BÖHLER M390 MICROCLEAN.
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