1. Superior Corrosion Resistance
Weathering steel plates are alloyed with elements like copper and nickel, giving them excellent resistance to atmospheric corrosion. This property significantly reduces rust formation and extends service life in outdoor environments.
2. Excellent Mechanical Properties
These plates combine toughness, plasticity, and abrasion resistance, ensuring reliable performance under heavy loads, high stress, and harsh weather conditions without compromising structural stability.
3. Strong Processing and Welding Performance
Weathering steel maintains good formability and weldability, making it easy to fabricate into complex shapes and structures, while still retaining its durability and strength after processing.
4. Versatility Across Applications
Available in high weather-resistant structural plates and welded structural plates, weathering steel is widely used in bridges, buildings, containers, and other structures that demand both strength and durability.
Product Description
Weathering steel plate is a type of steel designed to resist atmospheric corrosion, belonging to a series of low-alloy steels that fall between ordinary steel and stainless steel. It is produced by adding small amounts of corrosion-resistant elements, such as copper and nickel, to ordinary carbon steel. Based on its key characteristics, it is categorized into high weather-resistant structural steel plates and weathering steel plates for welded structures. By incorporating advanced metallurgical mechanisms and modern technologies, weathering steel achieves sustainable development and continuous innovation, making it one of the steel categories at the forefront of global technology.
High Weathering Steel Plate
High weather resistance structural steel is produced by adding small amounts of copper, phosphorus, chromium, and nickel to the steel. These elements form a protective layer on the surface, significantly enhancing its resistance to atmospheric corrosion. In addition, trace elements such as molybdenum, niobium, vanadium, titanium, and zirconium are incorporated to refine the grain structure, improve mechanical properties, and increase both strength and toughness. This also lowers the brittle transition temperature, giving the steel superior resistance to brittle fracture.
Thanks to its enhanced corrosion resistance compared with weathering steel for welded structures, high weather resistance structural steel is widely used in bolted, riveted, and welded components for vehicles, containers, buildings, towers, and other structural applications.
The characteristics of weathering steel plate
1. It has a protective rust layer and is resistant to atmospheric corrosion. It can be used to manufacture low-alloy structural steel for steel structures such as vehicles, bridges, towers, and containers.
2. Compared with ordinary carbon steel, weathering steel plate has better corrosion resistance in the atmosphere.
3. Compared with stainless steel, weathering steel has only a small amount of alloying elements, such as phosphorus, copper, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, niobium, vanadium, titanium, etc., the total amount of alloying elements is only a few percent, so the price is relatively low.
4. Weathering steel plate can resist corrosion and prolong life of components, reduce thickness and reduce consumption
Application
Weathering steel plates are mainly used for steel structures that are exposed to the atmosphere for a long time, such as railways, vehicles, bridges, towers, photovoltaics, and high-speed projects. It can also be used to manufacture structural parts such as containers, railway vehicles, oil derricks, seaport buildings, oil production platforms and containers for sulfur-containing corrosive media in chemical petroleum equipment. In addition, due to the unique appearance of weathering steel, it is also often used in public art, outdoor sculpture and building exterior wall decoration.
FAQ：
Q: What kind of work does your company do?
A: We are a business steel industry and trade.We mainly produces carbon steel plate/pipe/coil/bars, etc.
Q: What are the advantages of your company?
A: (1): Prime quality and Competitive price.
(2): Excellent experiences with after-sale service.
(3): Every process will be checked by responsible QC which insures every product's quality.
(4): Professional packing teams which keep every packing safely.
(5): Samples can be provided as your requirements.
Q: What is your terms of payment ?
A: Can be negotiated by both parties. If you have another question, pls feel free to contact us as below
Q: What about your price?
A: Our price is very competitive.
Pls feel free to contact us if you are interested in our products.
Q: How long is your delivery time?
A: Stock steel/Steel for simple cutting/Small amount of general standard steel: about 5-20 days for delivery; Custom steel/bulk steel: about 15-30 days for delivery. Contact us for specific delivery times.
