Hardox® 500 Tuf wear plate, the latest grade in the Hardox range, delivers exceptional strength, hardness and toughness in a single plate, guaranteed. It has proven its value around the world in tipper and dump bodies, containers, mining equipment, agricultural machinery, liners and wear parts, and buckets of all kinds. Explore the heavy wear fighter Hardox® 500 Tuf!
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How come a tipper body or bucket in Hardox® 500 Tuf steel can deliver more payload? Simply because it can make equipment lighter through thinner dimensions and less heavy wear packages while maintaining its high durability.
See what happens when a plate of Hardox® 500 Tuf meets up with some massive boulders in the toughest of conditions. Bring on the boulders and experience the Hardox® 500 Tuf difference.
With Hardox® 500 Tuf you can expect twice the service life compared to a 400 HBW AR steel, and up to 50% longer service life relative to a 450 HBW steel. Look forward to savings in repair and maintenance costs.
Want to take your business to the stratosphere? Get lighter bodies with the wear resistance of heavier structures? Reduce or eliminate supporting structures? That’s what OEM Mantella did. Discover how they saved 365 kg (805 lbs.) in their Stratosphere trailer body. With a lower tare weight, your bodies can carry more payload, use less fuel per ton transported and make fewer trips on the road.
If you want productivity gains, nothing beats the combo of high strength, hardness and toughness that Hardox® 500 Tuf brings. And you won’t get bogged down with heavy wear packages or costly repairs because your attachments will last longer – potentially, up to 100% longer compared to using a 400 Brinell steel or conventional AR steel. Find out how Swedish Fronteq and Danish Sjørring improve the productivity and wear life of their buckets.
Can your valuable mining equipment take a pounding every day and still reach high levels of productivity and profitability? Schlam knows that it can, with a boost in loading capacity of up to 20%. You too can protect your investments with Hardox® 500 Tuf in mining haul truck bodies. It has a guaranteed narrow Brinell hardness range of 475-505 HBW, an impact energy of 27 J at -20°C (20 ft-lb at -4°F) and a typical value of 50 J at -40°C (37 ft-lb at -40°F), making it the optimal choice in cold conditions.
Containers made of Hardox® 500 Tuf are light and strong and stand up to the harshest recycling challenges. The Finnish company Ferreus turned to Hardox® 500 Tuf and saved more than one tonne (1.1 tons) in container weight. Heavy and sharp materials like steel scrap, concrete rebar and demolition scrap are no match for Hardox® 500 Tuf. The recycling container is ready to handle the toughest of loads and still return in good shape at the end of the day.
Using Hardox® 500 Tuf in concrete mixers makes them lighter and more durable. The German company Stetter knows this firsthand, since it was able to the cut weight of its mixer drums. The additional hardness Hardox® 500 Tuf gives, compared to Hardox® 400 and Hardox® 450, allows for thinner dimensions that reduce drum weight with the same high wear life. Alternatively, if you keep the same thickness the drum lasts longer. Either way, Hardox® 500 Tuf makes any concrete mixer drum more competitive.
Zetterbergs develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of dump truck bodies, tipper trucks, tipping trailers, swap flatbeds and refuse collection superstructures. The company was founded in Sweden in 1923. Powerful ideas, quality thinking and hard work have transformed Zetterbergs into a leading company in its field.
Excavator buckets from Fronteq (formerly Götene Ufo) in Hardox® 500 Tuf break new ground for contractors looking for maximum capacity, volume and durability in the most severe environments – and gain up to 8% in weight savings.
In mining operations, every cost saving counts. That’s why Rossetti uses Hardox® 500 Tuf and Strenx® steels in its tipper bodies. They get vehicles that weigh less, use less fuel and emit less pollution.
Think it’s impossible to reduce a bucket’s steel gauge thickness yet boost service life? Think again. ChangWoon switched from S45C (S355, G50) steel to Hardox® 500 Tuf, in some cases extending wear life up to 400%.
Lighter weight steel containers that stand tough against wear, don’t need supporting structures, cost less to build, carry more payload. That’s what Ferreus got when it made its hooklift containers in Hardox® 500 Tuf.
It’s a simple but profitable concept - reduce cycle time to increase productivity. This is exactly what the new 2-Pass Bucket from Ontario, Canada’s AMI Attachments achieves by filling trucks in just two 9.14-meter (10-yard) bucketful’s, thanks to the use of both Hardox® wear plate and Strenx® performance steels.
Higher payload plus tougher vehicle weight limits is an equation that doesn’t seem to add up. But with Hardox® 500 Tuf, Takahashi could lightweight its trailer bodies and take more payload.
What a difference an upgrade makes. When Sjørring switched from Hardox® 450 to Hardox® 500 Tuf in their new bucket range, they reduced bucket weight and fuel use, and got more load capacity and higher performance.
When German trailer body builder Kempf wanted to build dump trailers that would last longer, delight customers and help the company grow, it switched to a higher grade of Hardox® steel – Hardox® 500 Tuf. The results? Less wear, higher payload and enhanced performance.
Find out how dump trailers from Armor Lite stay in better shape with Hardox® 500 Tuf, offering more value for money and higher performance in harsh conditions.
Winkelbauer GmbH in Austria is a leading supplier of heavy-duty buckets and other construction equipment for the European market. The company is an early adopter of SSAB’s new wear-resistant steel grade Hardox® 500 Tuf. Upgrading to this material allows Winkelbauer’s customers to load more and extend the service life of their equipment.
With Hardox® WearCalc software from SSAB, you can calculate and determine the increase in service life of equipment made in Hardox® 500 Tuf compared with generic AR steel with lower hardness values. A calculation based on sliding wear with granite shows:
Similar calculations can also be performed for other abrasive materials, such as coal, iron ore, limestone, sand, glass and household waste containing metal.
Hardox® 500 Tuf is a clean steel with extremely consistent, guaranteed properties for flatness, thickness and bending performance. Download Hardox Guarantees to see how you can ensure predictable fabrication in the workshop.
Upgrading to Hardox® 500 Tuf is a smooth process. You can weld the steel using any conventional technique, with no or low pre-heating requirements up to 38.1 mm (1.5 in.).
Same applies for cutting and machining, making the upgrade to Hardox® 500 Tuf a smooth process. Download the Hardox® Welding brochure to learn more.
1) Brinell hardness, HBW, according to EN ISO 6506-1, on a milled surface 0.5 – 3 mm below surface. At least one test specimen per heat and 40 tons. The nominal thickness of supplied plates will not deviate more than +/- 15 mm from the thickness of the test specimen used for hardness testing. For sheet the Brinell hardness test is according to EN ISO 6506-1 on each heat treatment individual/coil. Hardness is measured on a milled surface 0.3 - 2 mm below surface.
1) Impact testing is performed on thicknesses ≥ 6 mm for plate and ≥ 3 mm for sheet. For thicknesses between 3 and 11.9 mm, sub-size Charpy V-specimens are used. The specified minimum value is proportional to the cross-sectional area of the test specimen, compared to a full-size specimen (10 x 10 mm). Impact testing according to ISO EN 148 per heat and thickness group. Average of three tests
The steel is grain refined. *) Intentional alloying elements.
Tolerances according to Hardox® Thickness Guarantee. Hardox® Guarantees meet the requirements of EN 10029 Class A for plate, but offer more narrow tolerances. For sheets the guarantees meets the requirements of 1/2 EN 10051.
According to SSAB’s dimension program. For plate, the tolerances are according to SSAB´s mill edge standard or tolerances that conform to EN 10029. For sheet the tolerances conform to EN 10051, tighter tolerances available on request.
Tolerances according to EN 10029 for plate and according to EN 10051 for sheet.
For plate the tolerances are according to Hardox® flatness guarantees Class D, which are more restrictive than EN 10029. For sheet the tolerances are according to Hardox® flatness guarantees Class A, that offer narrower tolerances compared to EN 10051.
According to EN 10163-2 Class A, Subclass 1.
The delivery condition is Q or QT (Quenched or Quenched and Tempered). The sheets are delivered with an as-rolled surface and mill edge as standard, and the plates are delivered with sheared or thermally cut edges.
Welding, bending and machining
Recommendations can be found in SSABs brochures at www.hardox.com or consult Tech Support.
Bendability for plates are according to Hardox® Bending Guarantees Class F. For sheets the bendability are according to Hardox bending guarantees Class B.
Hardox® wear plate is not intended for further heat treatment. It has obtained its mechanical properties by quenching and when necessary by means of subsequent tempering. The properties of the delivery condition cannot be retained after exposure to temperatures in excess of 250ºC .
Appropriate health and safety precautions must be taken when welding, cutting, grinding or otherwise working on this product. Grinding, especially of primer coated plates, may produce dust with a high particle concentration.
