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Kobe Provides Fingerprint-Resistant Steel Sheet Technology to voestalpine
12/15/2009 - Kobe Steel, Ltd. is providing Austria's voestalpine Stahl GmbH with technology to produce fingerprint-resistant electrogalvanized steel sheet. voestalpine plans to conduct mill trials and customer trials starting in 2010.
Kobe Steel, Ltd. is providing Austria's voestalpine Stahl GmbH with technology to produce fingerprint-resistant electrogalvanized steel sheet.
The material, applicable for use in appliances and other electrical devices, has a special surface treatment that makes the sheet resistant to fingerprints or fingerprints on the steel less noticeable. The steel sheet also features high corrosion resistance. Kobe Steel says it no longer uses chromate treatment for its fingerprint-resistant steel sheet or for any of its other steel products.
voestalpine plans to conduct mill trials and customer trials starting in 2010. Following successful trials, it will have the capability to produce this steel sheet for potential flat-screen television manufacturers in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other central European countries, where many Japanese and South Korean transplants have set up production.
Kobe Steel's fingerprint-resistant electrogalvanized steel sheet is already being used in China and Southeast Asia, mainly in electric appliances. The company says it has an over 25% share of all electrogalvanized steel sheet that Japan's blast furnace steelmakers export to China and Southeast Asia.
voestalpine plans to conduct mill trials and customer trials starting in 2010. Following successful trials, it will have the capability to produce this steel sheet for potential flat-screen television manufacturers in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other central European countries, where many Japanese and South Korean transplants have set up production.
Kobe Steel's fingerprint-resistant electrogalvanized steel sheet is already being used in China and Southeast Asia, mainly in electric appliances. The company says it has an over 25% share of all electrogalvanized steel sheet that Japan's blast furnace steelmakers export to China and Southeast Asia.
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