Deco Steel® Real Stainless. At Real Savings.
Deco Steel® is a pure cost savings opportunity over solid stainless grades, with significant performance and application advantages. Deco Steel® incorporates a thinner gauge of real stainless, bonded to a lower cost backer substrate. So Deco Steel® gives you all the performance and visual benefits of stainless, at dramatically lower cost. And because Deco Steel® is an MSC-engineered composite,it can be optimized to provide unique noise and vibration advantages, similar to our revolutionary Quiet Steel.®
Deco Steel®:
- Can reduce your stainless steel costs by up to 25%
- Delivers better performance over solid stainless grades, with all of the
performance and visual attributes of stainless - Is easier to form than typical monolithic stainless steel
- Can be engineered to provide noise and vibration enhancements
- Utilizes a metal backing of steel, aluminum, or other metal to optimize cost, weight and mechanical performance
- Is easier to recycle and more environmentally friendly than traditional NVH treatments
- Can be surface-etched to provide unique designs
- Is available in 200-, 300- or 400-series stainless steels
- Works with copper, aluminum, titanium and other specialty metals
- Provides excellent formability, is completely weldable and paintable
- Allows you to target stainless steel only where it is most valued – on the
surface
As manufacturers discover the many benefits of replacing traditional stainless steel with Deco Steel®, it is being employed for an increasingly broad range of applications, including:
- Appliances/White Goods
- Automotive
- Aircraft/Aerospace
- Food Service/Commercial Kitchens
- Architectural/Interior Design Elements
- Furnishings/Decorative Appliqués
Wherever you want the visual, tactile and performance benefits of stainless steel, Deco Steel® delivers those benefits and more … for less.