The meaning of the steel grade designation for selected steels

One of the great advantages of steel as a material is the wealth of different variants with properties specifically adapted and fine tuned to the respective application.
For this purpose, there is a large number of steels with different compositions and properties, especially on the European steel market. In order to classify and designate all these steels, the DIN EN 10020 and DIN EN 10027 are applied. These two European standards contain the definition for the classification of steels (DIN EN 10020) and the designation system (DIN EN 10027). The term "steel" is defined on the basis of individual classes and assigned main quality classes for unalloyed, stainless or other alloyed steels.

There are two different types of designation systems for the concrete identification of steels. These two systems are standardized at a European level and are described in DIN EN 10027.
In order to improve clarity, the designation system in the first part of this standard (DIN EN 10027-1) uses a methodology of short names. In the second part (DIN EN 10027-2), a numbering system is set out for structuring purposes.
In actual practice, the designation of the steel grade by means of the abbreviated name from the first part of DIN EN 10027 has become generally accepted by many of our customers.

Our product range takes this status into account, adopting these abbreviated designations and thereby offering a wide range of steel grades for an extremely wide variety of applications with their special properties.
In the following, the meaning of the short names is explained by way of selected hot-rolled and cold-rolled steels as well as on cold-rolled, surface-treated steels.

The abbreviated names for steels are divided into two main groups according to DIN EN 10027.