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High-Strength & Abrasion-Resistant Steel Plate

Structural plate (SSAB Domex, HARDOX wearplate) used in chassis frames, loader arms, tillage tools, and wear-intensive components. SSAB is the exclusive producer of HARDOX — a proprietary grade specified by name in OEM designs worldwide.

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What depends on it

Goods that need this input

1 essential American goods rely on high-strength & abrasion-resistant steel plate somewhere upstream in their supply chain.

Agriculture

Farm equipment parts

Replacement parts for tractors, combines, planters, and sprayers from John Deere, CNH Industrial, and AGCO.

Where it comes from

Source countries

Share of global supply, by country.

Country	Share of supply
SESweden	40%
USUnited States	35%
FIFinland	15%
CNChina	10%

Who makes it

Supplier companies

1 company produce high-strength & abrasion-resistant steel plate.

SSAB(SSAB-A.ST)

HQ SE100% shareSOLE SUPPLIER

Swedish-Finnish steel company; global leader in ultra-high-strength steel. Strenx® brand (yield strength 700–1300 MPa) is the "world's premier high-strength structural steel" for lifting equipment, used in mobile crane booms, crawler cranes, and lattice structures. XCMG's record-breaking 4,000-ton crawler crane uses Strenx 1100 E tension bars. Primary mills: Oxelösund (Sweden) for quarto plate and Hämeenlinna (Finland) for hot-rolled. Also Hardox® wear plate brand for mining/construction. In 2016 acquired Ruukki (Finnish steel); combined entity dominates premium structural crane steel in European markets.

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