Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)’s coating shop started manufacturing the new hot-dip-galvanised, high-durability flat stock 350 in accordance with GOST 52246-2004; the product’s thickness comes to .7 to 2 mm and its width reaches 1,000 to 1,250 mm.

According to MMK’s PR Department, this highly durable product is becoming more and more popular with the builders (who use it to make reliable structural shapes, for example). The main advantage of using this stock lies in the possibility to make the metal less thick while retaining the same durability characteristics. What is more, thinner products mean that more of them can be made at the maintenance centers over the same period of time.

Last year, MMK delivered over 370,000 tons of metal goods to builders, which comes to 6% of the company’s domestic sales.

‘To make sure we can fully meet our customers’ needs. MMK keeps on developing new types of products. For one, we’ve been mastering the production of flat stock 350 with .7mm thickness and 1,500 mm width. This metal’s closest foreign counterpart is S350GD based on EN 10326-2004 and EN 10147-1995 standards. Besides, we have already started producing type 220 based on GOST Р 52246-2004 standard and S220GD based on EN 10147-1995 standard,’ the company reports.