Low Carbon Silico Manganese - Alloying Element For Steelmaking And Foundry Applications Enhances Strength And Toughness

We are manufacturing exporting and supplying huge range of Low Carbon Silico Manganese from Coimbatore Tamil Nadu India. Manganese alloys are mostly applied in steel making and foundry activities. Some 30% of the manganese used today in steelmaking is used to promote the formation of sulphides as a deoxidant. In this last case it combines with sulphur avoiding the formation of iron sulphides. These sulphides are low melting point phases which become liquid at hot rolling temperatures and which consequently generate surface cracking.

The other 70% of the manganese is used purely as an alloying element. Steels usually contain from 02% to 2% manganese depending on grades as manganese is the cheapest alloying element among those which enhance some key mechanical properties like strength and toughness. In the specific case of stainless steel it can substitute expensive nickel in some austenitic grades called 200 series.