Stainless Steel

Grade 304 stainless steel has a minimum of 18% chromium and 8% nickel, combined with a maximum of 0.08% carbon. It is defined as a Chromium-Nickel austenitic alloy.

Grade 304 is the standard “18/8” stainless that you will probably see in your pans and cookery tools.

These are some of its characteristics:

• Forming and welding properties
• Corrosion/ oxidation resistance thanks to the chromium content
• Deep drawing quality
• Excellent toughness, even down to cryonegic temperatures which are defined as very low temperatures
• Low temperature properties responding well to hardening by cold working
• Ease of cleaning, ease of fabrication, beauty of appearance