Swedish steelmaker Ovako, whose North American headquarters are located in South Carolina, is claiming that its new family of hybrid steels represents a significant development in steel metallurgy, offering the properties of stainless steel, tool steel and maraging steel, combined with the production economy of engineering steel.
Ovako claims that its new steel product opens up new possibilities to use steel components in very demanding applications.
According to Ovako, hybrid steel offers exceptional performance, especially at elevated temperatures, and can be produced in high volume to meet customer demand at an attractive price. The company claims that the properties of hybrid steel are made possible by an innovative hybrid combination of secondary hardening and precipitation hardening mechanisms.