SSAB is a Nordic and US-based steel company. SSAB offers value added products and services developed in close cooperation with its customers to create a stronger, lighter and more sustainable world.

SSAB Special Steels is responsible for sales of SSAB’s quenched and tempered (Q&T) steels and advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) as well as for steel production in Oxelösund (Sweden) and Mobile (USA). The division’s broad portfolio includes a number of unique high-strength steels,
including the Hardox (quenched and tempered plate with high wear resistance) and Strenx (advanced structural steel) brands.

SSAB Special Steels’ strategy is to drive the market for high-strength steels by launching new products and by developing applications with customers to enable them to upgrade to high strength steel from standard steel.

Sales are diversified across customer-segments and geographies. SSAB Special Steels sells plate both direct to machine builders and service centers as well as to smaller end-users through our own global sales network.

SSAB Special Steels’ main end customer segments include manufacturers of heavy transport, construction machinery and material handling including mining and recycling.

SSAB Special Steels works in close collaboration with large OEMs, as well as with smaller and mid-sized customers through a global organization Main customer segments and applications:

• Heavy transport, incl. trailers, trucks, railway transport, agriculture and forestry

• Construction machinery, incl. lifting (dumpers, loaders and cranes)

• Material handling, incl. mining and recycling (crushers, buckets and conveyors