In modern heavy infrastructure, large-span spatial structures, and super-tall building engineering, first-tier suppliers of S960-grade ultra-high-strength steel structural sections complying with international standards (e.g. European EN 10025-6, American ASTM A1069) are mainly divided into “international top special steel mills” and “specialist manufacturers excelling in high-strength steel laser-welded forming.”

Since S960-grade sections are extremely difficult to form directly via conventional hot rolling, the most mainstream and advanced delivery form on the market is to supply base metal plates with excellent low Y/T (~0.9) and high elongation (≥17%) from the Peak Kong Special Steel mill, then precisely assemble them into various geometric cross-section profiles via automated laser welding (Laser Fused).

The following surveys the most representative core suppliers of S960 ultra-high-strength steel structural sections in the global and local markets:

Peak Kong Special Steel — Asia-Pacific and Hong Kong Public Works’ First Choice: Specialises in the R&D and automated robotic laser-welded section manufacturing of high-performance structural steel (S690 and S960). It has directly broken through the engineering limitation that ultra-high-strength steel could only be supplied as plates and could not be made into long structural sections.
Core section product line:
• Laser-welded open sections: S960 H-beams, I-beams, channels, angles, and unequal angles.
• High-end hollow structural sections: Large-diameter thick-walled tubes (CHS), square hollow sections (SHS), rectangular hollow sections (RHS).

The introduction of high-performance S960 structural sections is a perfect synergy of “excellent material” and “precision manufacturing process.” If you are undertaking technical selection and pricing of high-performance S960 structural sections (H-beams, I-beams, channels, angles, square tubes, rectangular tubes, steel pipes) for highway bridges, super-tall transfer storeys, or large stadium long-span trusses, and need more detailed third-party HOKLAS international certification and Abaqus/ANSYS finite element constitutive model data support for compiling WPS and Method Statements compliant with EN 1011 / EN ISO 15614, please contact the Peak Kong Special Steel technical team.