Kobe Steel and Voestalpine Stahl to market high strength
steel in
this year
Kobe Steel is finishing to commercialize next generation of advanced
high strength steel sheets used in cars, which jointly developed with
Austria's Voestalpine Stahl by the end of 2003. The high strength steel
sheets' tensile strength is 80 or 100 kg per square millimeters. Kobe
Steel will ship the samples to Japanese and European car makers from
the latter half of next year, aiming to be adopted with new models of
cars in 2005-2006.
Kobe Steel and Voestalpine entered into a technical tie-up in January
2002, and they set the co-development as one of the main themes. The
two companies have brought up workability and paintwork on the basis of
advanced high strength steel sheets that each of them has researched,
and they will propose the steels and a way to apply to new parts to
cars makers. Kobe Steel will also develop high strength steels of 150
kg/mm2 in conjunction with Voestalpine.
 Kobe
Steel
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