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By cooperation with UnionStahl und UnionOcel, among the leading full range suppliers in the European heavy plate market, toughcore® heavy plates are now available on stock and in various dimensions at UnionStahl and UnionOcel.

voestalpine Grobblech’s next generation Carbon Manganese steel “F 550 TMCP toughcore®” is replacing conventional Ni steel for LCO₂ cargo tanks with considerable project savings. HB Hunte Engineering partnered with voestalpine Grobblech in Linz, Austria utilizing our newly developed VLF 550 toughcore® material with very high strength, outstanding material properties even at very low temperatures and at a comparable low price.

Together with the successfully passed EN 10225 - prequalification and as another track record for toughcore®, voestalpine Grobblech won an exciting arctic-project located north of Norway in the Barents Sea.

Caused by the severe operating conditions of the project matters, voestalpine Grobblech was challenged to fulfill most stringent requirements in respect to Charpy toughness in combination with a high wall thickness, guaranteed tensile strength and minimum yield strength ...

With toughcore® - voestalpine Grobblech is having the right product for the upcoming activities in the oil & gas business and is happy to report another booking of toughcore® heavy plates for the offshore construction business.

The toughcore® production line was successfully put into operation in October 2016. voestalpine Grobblech is pleased to announce the first toughcore® order plates for a demanding ONSHORE-LINEPIPE project. voestalpine Grobblech again have got ONE STEP AHEAD.