Tata Steel has started supplying UK car makers with a British-made dent-resistant steel that helps to further reduce vehicle weight. The product is known as bake hardening 260 or 'BH260' helps car manufacturers make doors and bonnets that are 7 percent lighter, which improves cars’ fuel efficiency. The steel, which is being supplied to the UK market from Tata Steel’s South Wales operations, is made using a special strengthening technique which enables vehicles to retain their ability to withstand everyday knocks in the car park.
The BH260 product is one of two automotive grades that Tata Steel has recently made, available for the first time from its UK plants (both are already made at Tata Steel’s plants on mainland Europe). The other is a grade of safety-critical automotive sheet steel called ‘DP800GI’. This addition to the range of advanced high-strength steels available from Tata Steel in the UK is ideal for forming the crash structure of vehicles. Its strength means that thinner, lighter components can be used, offering manufacturers greater opportunity to meet vehicle emission targets and improve fuel efficiency, while maintaining necessary safety levels.
Tata Steel, the flagship company of the Tata group is the first integrated steel plant in Asia and is now the world’s second most geographically diversified steel producer and a Fortune 500 Company.
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