COR-TEN® Steel. A Natural Beauty

SSAB makes COR-TEN^® from the exceptionally clean iron ore extracted in Swedish mines, ensuring a pure final product.

With its anti-corrosive properties, COR-TEN^® steel minimizes the need for maintenance and corrosion-prevention treatment, contributing significantly to low maintenance costs throughout the product lifecycle. Making COR-TEN^® steel the environmentally friendly choice.

The way COR-TEN^® A performs on a building or any other steel structure is a result of the process, the steel’s cleanliness and the chemistry. Based on a century’s old steelmaking tradition, SSAB knows how to keep these parameters and properties in check.

COR-TEN^® A has mechanical properties and dimensional tolerances that generally exceed the standards given by EN 10025-5.

COR-TEN^® A for building façades and structures conforms to established standards, including EN S355J2WP, ASTM 588 Grade A, ASTM A 242 Type 2 and has the material number 1.8946.

Genuine COR-TEN^® steel is produced by SSAB under a license from US Steel Corporation. Using genuine COR-TEN^® steel ensures that appearance, longevity and mechanical properties of the material fulfills your expectations, as well as the expectations of your clients.

Crucial to the forming of a solid and long-lasting patina is the alloying elements. The most important are copper, chromium, nickel and phosphorous. They all have to be present in the right proportions. Since COR-TEN^® A from SSAB is made at a dedicated steel mill, the chemistry balance it strictly preserved for every batch.