Niobium integration in construction:
enhancing strength and efficiency

Niobium offers effective solutions for addressing engineering challenges. By integrating Niobium into your production process, you can not only enhance product strength but also unlock a new level of optimization.

How does Niobium contribute to structural steels?

Small additions of Niobium to steel can lead to refinement of the microstructure and the grain size resulting in an increase of yield and tensile strength while preserving the ductility and elongation the material. As result, the structures can be lighter, improving the longevity of the building and maintaining its safety aspects.

Better grain
refinement

Optimized
cost savings

Promote
dematerialization

Stable
supply

Optimizing alloy design with Niobium

Niobium is a key microalloying element used in the production of a variety of high-quality steel products commonly used in construction like rebars, flats and beams and sections. Unlike alternative alloying elements, Niobium can significantly enhance strength, while providing exceptional elongation properties to microalloyed steels. These results can be obtained starting from very low percentages of Niobium in the alloy.

The cost advantages of using Niobium technology

By leveraging the advantages of incorporating Niobium (Nb) at varying quantities starting from ≤100 ppm (equivalent to 0.010 wt.%Nb),

customers can experience cost savings through reduced usage of other microalloying elements in the alloy design.

Reach new heights with Niobium

High strength steel can have a big impact on the construction sector's pursuit of more sustainable and safer buildings. Niobium microalloyed high strength steels are known for having mechanical properties that can have enhanced structural results while using lower volumes. Hence, using these materials either in their direct applications as beams, sections and plates or composite structures such as rebars in reinforced concrete structures, can provide better performance when compared to commodity steels.

How Niobium technology can contribute

to sustainability with dematerialization

Dematerialization in civil construction refers to reducing material and energy consumption throughout the lifecycle of products and services, thereby limiting environmental impact. Niobium micro-alloyed high strength steels used in reinforced concrete and steel structures have achieved up to 20% reduction in raw material usage.