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

Standard Number Arrangement

Who Supplies Which Steel

Table of Suppliers

Table of Shape and Condition of Product

Index of Brand Names

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 ·
• EURONORM ·
• FEDERAL ·
• GB ·
• GOST ·
• IS ·
• ISC ·
• ISO ·
• JB ·
• JIS ·
• JUS ·
• KS ·
• MIL ·
• MSZ ·
• NS ·
• ÖNORM ·
• PN ·
• SAE ·
• SS ·
• STAS/SR ·
• STN ·
• UNE ·
• UNI ·
• UNS ·
• YB

Standards and designations from 25 countries

• Australia ·
• Austria ·
• Brasil ·
• Bulgaria ·
• Canada ·
• China ·
• Czech/Slovac Republic ·
• Finland ·
• France ·
• Germany ·
• Great Britain ·
• Hungary ·
• India ·
• Italy ·
• Japan ·
• Korea ·
• Norway ·
• Poland ·
• Rumania ·
• Russia ·
• Serbia ·
• Spain ·
• Sweden ·
• USA

Indispensable for

• the mechanical engineer
• the designer
• the technical merchant
• the storeman
• the standards department
• the production
• the export department
• the heat-treating department
• the purchaser
• the materials testing department
• everyone dealing with steel