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Hot-dip galvanized steel strip

Hot-dip galvanized steel strip

Hot-dip galvanized steel strip made by voestalpine is characterized by high corrosion resistance and offers solutions for hot and cold forming. The product portfolio is versatile and ranges from deep-drawing grades to grades with the highest strength that have properties tailored to each application, including best surface, optimum formability or low sensitivity to edge cracking. Hot-dip galvanized steel strip is available in all surface versions with various metallic coatings and a wide range of widths and thicknesses.

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Hot-dip galvanized steel strip

Hot-dip galvanized steel strip made by voestalpine is characterized by high corrosion resistance and offers solutions for hot and cold forming. The product portfolio is versatile and ranges from deep-drawing grades to grades with the highest strength that have properties tailored to each application, including best surface, optimum formability or low sensitivity to edge cracking. Hot-dip galvanized steel strip is available in all surface versions with various metallic coatings and a wide range of widths and thicknesses.

  • Reliable corrosion protection thanks to high-quality metallic coatings such as zinc, zinc-iron and zinc-magnesium that are ideal for durable components under demanding conditions.
  • A broad quality portfolio from soft deep-drawn grades to high-strength dual-phase, complex-phase and martensitic steels—all tailored to a wide range of applications.
  • Versatile for hot and cold forming from complex deep-drawn parts to press-hardened structural components.
  • corrender® - an efficient alternative: Significantly improved corrosion protection when compared to classic galvanized steel strip with a thinner layer. The coated surface impresses with excellent formability, low friction and high processing efficiency.

From lightweight design to corrosion protection solutions for the highest demands 
The numerous applications of hot-dip galvanized steel strip are highly convincing. Typical applications are found in the automotive industry, for example in crash-relevant structural parts, A and B pillars, seat structures, sills and exposed components. The material is also widely used in the construction and household appliance industry, for example in roof and facade elements, doors, ventilation ducts, household appliance and control cabinets. Other areas of application include the production of tubes, structural members and modular shelving systems in which high dimensional stability and long-term corrosion protection are required. Depending on the requirements, various coatings are available, including corrender® zinc-magnesium as well as a wide range of different strengths.

Steels for cold forming

Hot-dip galvanized cold-forming steels made by voestalpine are perfectly suited for modern production processes. Whether deep drawing, bending or roll forming, the excellent formability, stable edge performance and outstanding surface quality ensure maximum process reliability. Thanks to a variety of steel grades and coating options, they offer optimum solutions for demanding components. Hot-dip galvanized strip extends the available thickness spectrum upward.

ultralights by voestalpine Stähle für die Kaltumformung setzen Maßstäbe im automobilen Leichtbau.
Bei der Warmumformung von presshärtenden Stählen (phs) mit Zink-Korrosionsschutz ermöglichen voestalpine Lösungen Bauteile bis 2.000 MPa.

Steels for hot forming

Press-hardening steels for hot forming are available in various strengths and are coated with zinc or zinc-iron. Best crash behavior, high dimensional accuracy and very good joining properties are the hallmarks of components made of these materials.

Metallic coatings

  • Zinc (Z) for applications subject to average corrosion (galvanized)
  • Zinc-iron (ZF) for corrosion protection with highest weldability requirements (galvannealed)
  • Zinc-magnesium (ZM) for best cathodic corrosion protection (corrender®)

corrender® is the high-performance zinc-magnesium-aluminum coating made by voestalpine.

The corrender® surface achieves a significantly higher corrosion resistance than conventional galvanized steel strip, despite its reduced layer thickness. The surface is characterized by excellent forming properties, minimized friction and efficient postprocessing.

Surface quality

Hot-dip galvanized steel strip is available in a variety of surface finishes from standard to improved surfaces. For example in the automotive industry, the best exposed components with minimum waviness and high contour sharpness provide an ideal solution for particularly demanding applications.

Functional surfaces

voestalpine offers more than high-quality steel strip. Functional surfaces provide additional protection, facilitate production processes and increase efficiency. They contribute to quality assurance, cost savings and conservation of resources. A wide range of solutions enables optimum adaptation to specific requirements.

Steel selection and information at the click of a mouse in the voestalpine Product Data System.

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In the field of ultralights, voestalpine combines materials expertise with lightweight design know-how to offer a broad portfolio of high- and ultra-high-strength steels.  

Functional surfaces

Functional surfaces extend the range of applications as coordinated with pre-defined product requirements of each individual customer.

Further processing

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Hot-dip galvanized steel strip

Hot-dip galvanized steel strip

Hot-dip galvanized steel made by voestalpine is characterized by high corrosion resistance, excellent working properties and a wide range of applications.

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Hot-dip galvanized steel strip

Hot-dip galvanized steel strip is as flexible as our customers. Our material is produced in five hot-dip galvanizing lines in Linz with various zinc coatings, surface qualities and post-treatments such as oil, passivation or anti-fingerprinting. Delivered in coils as slit strip or cut shapes

Portfolio

Tailored to your specific needs, our portfolio ranges from extremely mild to advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) grades and includes widths up to 1,730 mm and thicknesses ranging between 0.5 mm and 3.5 mm. All hot-dip galvanized products of voestalpine have one thing in common: The best processing characteristics and highest degree of corrosion protection. Special features include Galvannealed and ZincMagnesium hot-dip galvanized steel strip.

Steel grades

  • Mild steels for cold forming
  • Structural steels
  • Micro-alloyed steels
  • Bake-hardening steels
  • Higher-strength IF steels
  • Dual-phase steels
  • Complex-phase steels
  • TRIP steels
  • Press-hardening steels for hot forming (phs-ultraform)

Surfaces

  • Surface types ranging from standard A surface to high-end C surface properties
  • Adjustment of defined strip roughness possible
  • Post-treatment to protect against the formation of white rust: wide variety of oils, chromium-free passivation, anti-finger-print system or micro-phosphating

Different types of hot-dip galvanized steel strip 

  • Conventional hot-dip galvanized steel strip (Z) with zinc coating thicknesses ranging from Z70 to Z600 
  • Hot-dip galvanized steel strip galvannealed with zinc-iron coating (ZF) allows coating thicknesses ranging from ZF70 to ZF140. 
  • Hot-dip zinc-magnesium galvanized steel strip (ZM); ZM90–ZM200
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With its forward-looking technological developments, voestalpine is setting new standards in the automotive industry.

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Looking for the lightweight automotive design of tomorrow?

The automotive industry is undergoing unprecedented change. Technological developments are progressing at an enormous pace. The demands on efficiency and safety are enormous and are being completely redefined in ever shorter periods of time. In this highly innovative environment, anyone who believes that today's solutions must be valid tomorrow will be proven wrong by the competition. voestalpine is working now on the solutions of tomorrow. Whether for crash components, exposed panels that meet the highest surface requirements or body-in-white components, voestalpine provides the best solution for every demand of the automotive and automotive supplier industries. That is why leading OEMs and automotive component suppliers place their trust in voestalpine.

Let your ideas fly! That's ultralights

Transforming ideas into lighter, stronger and more corrosion-resistant components. That is the credo of ultralights made by voestalpine. The ultralights made by voestalpine offer a comprehensive range of steels for lightweight automotive design, from advanced high-strength steels (ahss) for cold forming to innovative solutions for the hot forming of galvanized press-hardening steels (phs). That is how voestalpine pushes the limits of what is efficiently feasible in the automotive industry.

Lightweight AND crash-safe!

Weight reduction is a central objective in the automotive industry. Less weight results in advantages in performance and efficiency. But does reduced weight also mean less stability? Results from the voestalpine crash simulator prove otherwise. This is where the high-strength and innovative car body steels of voestalpine are tested to the limit so they can be used in demanding applications, even in the most extreme cases. The results speak for themselves. The progressive buckling behavior and energy absorption values are excellent in spite of the light weight of the material.

Who's Stella?

Stella Sustainable is a testimonial to the sustainable future of the automotive industry. Holistic corporate social responsibility (CSR) is of particular importance to voestalpine. There are many other issues in addition to climate protection, future steel production, ecological logistics and transparent supply chains. Because we care. Stella stands for a vision of the future in which mobility and the environment do not contradict each other.

Ready for a new Xperience?

The ahss high-ductility, complex-phase steel CP1400HD made by voestalpine redefines the limits of what is feasible in lightweight automotive design. Impressive formability and light weight in a strength class of 1400 MPa. The next level of cold forming.

Electrical steel for the drive

In addition to lightweight design and safety, the need for highly efficient electrical steel for rotors and stators in the drive train is becoming increasingly important in electromobility. There are already more than 100 electric motors installed in conventional cars. New drive motors present the industry with completely new challenges. isovac® is the electrical steel made by voestalpine and meets the challenges of highest energy efficiency.

corrender is convincing throughout the entire car body, even in exposed panels.

The performance of corrender can be applied throughout the entire car body. corrender optimizes every structural or internal component, including those that are forming-critical or highly corrosive. The potential savings in the corrender metallic surface coating offers greater corrosion protection when compared with classic galvanized steel strip.

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phs-directform® is a galvanized steel strip produced using the direct hot forming process for structural components with tensile strengths of up to 2000 MPa.

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