Lightest steel tipper bodies made from Hardox® 500 Tuf in the Australian market

Reliable in the workshop

Based on many years of working with SSAB as a steel supplier, BRE trusted Hardox^® 500 Tuf to be as reliable and consistent as Hardox^® 450. The new grade basically went straight into production, and BRE has been proved right to rely on the product specifications given by SSAB.

“Hardox 500 Tuf has worked perfectly in the workshop and we didn’t expect anything else,” Michaelas says. “Welding, cutting, machining and bending haven’t given us any surprises. It’s a clean and stable product with excellent uniformity from plate to plate. Our customers demand the best, and this material allows us to meet their high requirements. Not only is it consistent, the dimensional tolerances of Hardox plates are way more narrow than any other materials.”

About BRE and high-strength steels

The company’s full suite of products includes end tippers, side tippers, dollies, skel trailers, flat tops and drop decks, road trains, dry and refrigerated trailers, live bottom trailers and custom designs. Many of these products use high-strength steel from SSAB.

Transbeam Industries is a sister company of BRE and has been around for around 12 years. Transbeam provides CNC plasma cutting, plate processing, automated beam welding and specialist fabrication services. Both BRE and Transbeam are members of SSAB’s brand programs Hardox^® In My Body and My Inner Strenx^® and the worldwide service network Hardox Wearparts.

Download the Hardox^® 500 Tuf spec sheet to learn more about Hardox^® 500 Tuf in steel tipper bodies and other applications.

Get an upgrading consultation

Find out what upgrading to Hardox^® 500 Tuf can do for your equipment and your operations. We’ll be happy to meet you and find out about your specific wear environment and needs to find the best and most cost-effective solution for your business.

The lifetime of Zetterberg’s dumpers has increased by 40 percent

“The increased abrasion resistance of Hardox^® 500 Tuf allows us to use a thinner plate and keep the same excellent service life. Not only that, thinner steel reduces the body weight, which allows for higher payload”