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Armox Steel Protection Plates

Armox has been designed by SSAB to provide harder and tougher steel to manufacturers of protection equipment.

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Armox® is a well-known high-end protection plate designed by SSAB to provide manufacturers of protection equipment with harder and tougher armour steel.

The Armox® brand is one of many steel grades from SSAB, a Swedish company specialising in quenched and tempered steels for protection, wear, structural and tooling applications.

Armox® grades from 300HBW to 600HBW and beyond

Armox® is delivered in a quenched and tempered condition, ready for processing and installation.

The Armox 370T steel contains a tough composition that makes it highly resistant against blasts.

The chart explains the highly resistant properties of the different Armox compositions.

The standard Armox® grades are manufactured with a Brinell hardness from 300HBV to 600HBW and beyond. These grades have guaranteed mechanical properties for hardness, tensile strength and impact toughness. The plates range in thickness from 3mm to 150mm, depending on the selected grade.

SSAB also offers an ultra-high hardness ballistic grade, Armox® Advance. It has a guaranteed Rockwell C hardness of 58HRC to 63HRC. This grade comes in thicknesses from 4mm to 7.9mm and is intended for add-on armour applications.

Armor plates from SSAB for ultimate protection

Armox® provides ultimate protection in combination with ease of use in the workshop thanks to the steel’s relatively high toughness. Armox® grades are classified with protection levels according to several militaries and other standards for armour steel. They have been used to improve safety for people and property in the world’s most dangerous environments for more than 40 years. Armox® has quite literally been tested in the field.

SSAB also offers Ramor® protection steel, which is a direct-hardened steel with guaranteed hardness, good workshop properties, and excellent surface properties. It is primarily intended for civilian applications. Ramor® is produced in 300HBW to 600HBW hardness and is available as cut-to-length sheets or heavy plates in thicknesses from 2.2mm to 30mm, depending on the actual grade’s hardness.

Protection engineers and OEMs manufacturing protected vehicles or other vulnerable targets can tailor their designs by utilizing the wide portfolio of grades and dimensions for Armox® and Ramor®.

Quality control in every step

In addition to systematic quality checks at its own laboratories, SSAB collaborates with independent and internationally accredited centers for carrying out various ballistic tests. At SSAB, the entire production process is built to ensure all steel products leaving the factory match and exceed the international standards, conforming to customer specifications.

Protection with a sustainability edge

SSAB is in the process of phasing out its traditional steelmaking processes in favour of fossil-free technologies. This transformation applies to all SSAB steels, Armox® and Ramor® included. SSAB is already producing steel from two different sustainability concepts. One is based on HYBRIT technology, making SSAB Fossil-free™ steel with green hydrogen instead of coal and cok. The other concept, SSAB Zero™, is based on recycled steel produced with fossil-free energy.

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HYBRIT: Six Years of Research Paves the Way for Fossil-free Iron and Steel Production on an Industrial Scale

The HYBRIT initiative now presents the results of six years of research in a final report to the Swedish Energy Agency. The report shows that direct reduced iron produced with the HYBRIT process has superior characteristics compared to iron produced with fossil fuels.

SSAB and Wibe Group in Partnership on Fossil-free Steel

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SSAB and Firth Steels have entered a long-term partnership for the supply of steel made with virtually zero fossil carbon emissions. The partnership will help Firth Steels reach its goal to further improve sustainability and reduce the CO2 footprint of their products.

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SSAB and Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions have signed a letter of intent to secure fossil-free steel for use initially in the production of Sandvik’s loaders and trucks.

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SSAB and Epiroc Expand Partnership with Fossil Carbon Emission-free Recycled Steel

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SSAB Attends COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

SSAB is taking part in meetings and seminars in conjunction with the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, which this year is hosted by Egypt. SSAB will, as part of Business Sweden’s delegation, raise the need for enabling regulatory frameworks and a level playing field, as well as highlight the importance of partnerships and cross-sector co-operation to reach Paris Agreement targets.

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HYBRIT: Fossil-free Hydrogen Gas Storage Facility is Being Inaugurated in Luleå

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall are inaugurating HYBRIT’s pilot facility for fossil-free hydrogen gas storage at Svartöberget in Luleå, Sweden. The rock cavern storage facility is the first of its kind in the world. The inauguration ceremony marks the start of the two-year test period, which will run until 2024.

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Prime Minister Stefan Löfven breaks the ground for a globally unique pilot plant for HYBRIT, the initiative from SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall for fossil-free steel. The three owner companies, with the support of the Swedish Energy Agency, recently decided to join forces to invest Skr1.4bn in the pilot plants, one of which will be built at SSAB’s site in Luleå. This means that SSAB is taking the next important step towards the goal of being totally fossil-free by 2045.

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall in Joint Project for a Future Fossil-Free Sweden

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall cordially invite the media to a joint press conference to be held on Monday April 4, 2016 starting at 10am CET to announce a joint project that can play an important role in a future fossil-free Sweden.