Key to Steel - Stahlschlüssel :: Online version

The worldwide most competent cross reference online database, latest edition

The Key to Steel - Stahlschluessel cross reference online database will help you to decode / decipher steel designations and find equivalent materials worldwide.

More than 75.000 standards and steel-brands of approx. 300 steelworks and suppliers.

Trilingual:     German | English | French

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The ONLINE :: Key to Steel - Stahlschlüssel offers you complete new possibilities

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  • Access to the latest data published!
    (Updates we make are automatically part of the current online version.)
  • Decode / decipher steel designations and find equivalent materials worldwide
  • Direct access to standard numbers, symbols and designations (also with jokers)
  • Search of materials by chemical composition or mechanical / physical properties
  • Listing of all materials mentioned within a standard
  • Direct comparison of international designation
  • All German suppliers of a defined material (rough classification to shape of delivery)
  • Printout of the selected data record
  • Export/Import-function of material numbers, symbols and compositions for individual materials
  • Choice of language (German, English or French)
  • Online help manual, self-explaining screens

Categories contained

  • Structural and constructional steels
    General structural steel, case hardening steel, nitriding steel, free cutting-steel, heat-treatable steel, ball and roller bearing steel, spring steel, steel for superficial hardening, steel for cold extrusion, tough at subzero steel, pressure vessel steel, heat resisting structural steel, fine grained structural steel
  • Tool steels
    Carbon tool steel, high speed steel, hot work tool steel, cold work tool steel
  • Valve steels
  • High temperature steels and alloys
  • Nonmagnetizable steels
  • Heat-resisting steels
  • Heat conducting alloys
  • Stainless steels
  • Stainless steel castings
  • Welding filler materials

Detailed compositions and cross referenced standards and designations

  • ACI ·
  • AFNOR NF ·
  • AISI ·
  • AMS ·
  • AS/NZS ·
  • ASME ·
  • ASTM ·
  • AWS ·
  • BDS ·
  • BS ·
  • CSA ·
  • CŠN ·
  • EN ·
  • FEDERAL ·
  • GB ·
  • GOST ·
  • IS ·
  • ISC ·
  • ISO ·
  • JB ·
  • JIS ·
  • KS ·
  • MIL ·
  • MSZ ·
  • NS ·
  • ÖNORM ·
  • PN ·
  • SAE ·
  • SANS ·
  • SRPS (JUS) ·
  • SS ·
  • STAS/SR ·
  • STN ·
  • UNE ·
  • UNI ·
  • UNS ·
  • YB

Standards and designations from 25 countries

  • Australia ·
  • Austria ·
  • Brazil ·
  • Bulgaria ·
  • Canada ·
  • China ·
  • Czech/Slovak Republic ·
  • Finland ·
  • France ·
  • Germany ·
  • Great Britain ·
  • Hungary ·
  • India ·
  • Italy ·
  • Japan ·
  • Republic of Korea ·
  • Norway ·
  • Poland ·
  • Romania ·
  • Russia ·
  • Serbia ·
  • South Africa ·
  • Spain ·
  • Sweden ·
  • USA

Indispensable for

  • the mechanical engineer
  • the designer
  • the technical merchant
  • the store man
  • the standards department
  • the production
  • the export department
  • the hardening shop
  • the purchaser
  • the materials testing department
  • everyone dealing with steel

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