Applications
- Passenger rail systems
- Light rail systems
- Metro systems
- Freight vehicles
Stainless steel for railway
Stainless steel is the ideal material to meet the growing global needs for effective and climate-friendly transport on rails. It enables durable but lightweight and cost-efficient railway vehicle designs, as well as lower life-cycle cost due to low maintenance needs. Made to last forever, stainless steel is also a highly sustainable material. A stainless steel frame will extend the lifetime of a train significantly: upgrades to technical components and interiors will be inevitable, but the frame itself will last decade after decade.
Outokumpu’s Forta range includes the strongest stainless steels in our portfolio, including duplex, H-Series and temper rolled austenitic and ferritic stainless steels.
Duplex (austenitic-ferritic) stainless steel combines many of the best properties of austenitic and ferritic stainless steels: high strength, good corrosion resistance and enhanced resistance to stress corrosion cracking.
Our key Forta range grades for railway applications:
• Forta 301L/301LN (EN 1.4318)
• Forta LDX2101 (1.4162)
• Forta H400 (EN1.4376)
• Forta H500 (EN1.4678)
• Forta H800 (EN1.4678)
• Forta 4589 (EN1.4589)
• Supra 316Ti (EN 1.4571)
• Supra 316plus (EN 1.4420)
• Moda 410L (EN 1.4003)
Download Forta range datasheet