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Key to Steel - Stahlschlüssel
The worldwide most competent cross reference book, 24. edition
The Key to Steel - Stahlschluessel cross reference book will help you to decode / decipher steel designations and find equivalent materials worldwide.
More than 70 000 standards and steel-brands of approx. 300 steelworks and suppliers
Standard Number Arrangement
in numerical order
Who Supplies Which Steel
Table of Suppliers
Table of Shape and Condition of Products
Index of Brand Names
in alphabetical order
Categories contained
- Structural and constructional steels
General structural steel, case hardening steel, nitriding steel, free cutting-steel, heat-treatable steel, ball and roller bearing steel, spring steel, steel for superficial hardening, steel for cold extrusion, tough at subzero steel, pressure vessel steel, heat resisting structural steel, fine grained structural steel
- Tool steels
Carbon tool steel, high speed steel, hot work tool steel, cold work tool steel
- Valve steels
- High-temperature steels and alloys
- Non-magnetizable steels
- Heat-resisting steels and alloys
- Heat conducter alloys
- Stainless steels
- Stainless and heat-resisting steel castings
- Welding filler materials
Detailed compositions and cross referenced standards and designations
ACI · AFNOR NF · AISI · AMS · AS/NZS · ASME · ASTM · AWS · BDS · BS · CSA · CŠN · EN · FEDERAL · GB · GOST · IS · ISC · ISO · JB · JIS · KS · MIL · MSZ · NS · ÖNORM · PN · SAE · SANS · SRPS (JUS) · SS · STAS/SR · STN · UNE · UNI · UNS · YB
Standards and designations from 25 countries
Australia · Austria · Brazil · Bulgaria · Canada · China · Czech/Slovak Republic · Finland · France · Germany · Great Britain · Hungary · India · Italy · Japan · Republic of Korea · Norway · Poland · Romania · Russia · Serbia · South Africa · Spain · Sweden · USA
Indispensable for
- the mechanical engineer
- the designer
- the technical merchant
- the storekeeper
- the standards department
- the production
- the export department
- the heat-treatment department
- the purchaser
- the material testing department
- everyone dealing with steel