TENASTEEL® is a cold work tool steel, combining a high compression strength and a very good toughness. Its other advantages are particularly high resistance to thermal softening and a good machinability in the as-delivery condition.

The steel is delivered in the soft annealed condition with a maximum hardness of 250 HB.

TENASTEEL® is specially designed to replace D2/X160 CrMoV12/W1.2379 type steels widely used by tool makers but suffering from an excessive prittleness.

Thanks to its chemistry increasing resistance to softening during tempering, TENASTEEL® is especially suited for all processes of surface treatment and coatings commonly used by end-users.