The XLERPLATE® steel range of hot-rolled plate products is synonymous with quality and consistency. Manufactured by BlueScope and supported with extensive technical expertise, XLERPLATE® steel is available in a wide range of grades and sizes, with short, flexible lead times.
Available in structural, boiler and pressure vessel products, as well as analysis and counterweight products, XLERPLATE® steel offers both standard and custom specifications for applications such as mining equipment, storage tanks, wind towers, bridges, and building structures.
For projects requiring tailored solutions, the custom plate range is available on short lead times, with special-purpose grades also available by enquiry.
The XLERPLATE® steel Size Schedule Tool is a simple, self-guided tool to check the viability of manufacture of XLERPLATE® steel plate by thickness, width, and length for your chosen grade and edge condition. Using the latest size schedule data, the tool confirms viability in real time. If your specific requirements aren’t available in the tool, the BlueScope Customer Service team is available to guide you.
BlueScope provides peace of mind through the ability to identify and trace products back to their origin. A number of initiatives ensure compliance:
- ISO Quality Management Systems Certification (ISO 9001:2015)
- Manufactured by BlueScope to relevant Australian Standards
- Comprehensive test certificates
- Compliance via ACRS certification
For detailed product and technical information, refer to the relevant brochures, datasheets, and technical guides in our library.
XLERPLATE® steel welded beams and columns
BlueScope also offers a wide range of welded beam and column sizes made from XLERPLATE® steel, with 41 standard sections and lengths available in 1.5m increments. A fully automatic submerged arc-welding process ensures quality and consistency of manufacture.
The XLERPLATE® steel Welded Beams and Columns Brochure provides information on product range availability, material properties, design and detailing guidance and tolerances.
Product Range
A range of steel plate grades for use in structural applications.
Specially designed grades for boiler and pressure vessel applications.
Grades to meet specific chemical composition or broad chemical analysis.
BlueScope offers a wide range of standard beam and column sizes made from XLERPLATE® steel.
Large infrastructure projects ranging from small pedestrian bridges to large highways. These projects require a range of high strength grades, with options for guaranteed impact toughness and/or through thickness ductility. Our custom range options allow longer length plate for bridge design efficiencies. REDCOR® steel, XLERPLATE® steel and welded beams and columns are typically used in the construction of a wide range of bridges from long span road bridges, rail bridges to pedestrian bridges.
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Wind Towers are not a new application for XLERPLATE® steel, manufacturing a range of standard and custom sizes for over twenty years. XLERPLATE® steel is obtainable in a range of Australian and European grades designed to meet wind tower design requirements.
XLERPLATE® steel is offered in a wide range of standard and custom sizes for the manufacture of mining equipment including processing equipment to infrastructure such as processing plants.
XLERPLATE® steel is also used to manufacture large storage tanks used in the petroleum and other chemical industries. Accessible in a wide range of standard and custom steel grades designed to meet the standards and design requirements for each project.
XLERPLATE® steel is consumed in many applications ranging from structures in building and infrastructure construction to machinery and equipment. XLERPLATE® steel is available in a wide range of steel grades, thicknesses, widths and lengths via our many steel distributors.
XLERPLATE® steel is offered in a wide range of grades, and in a number of different supply conditions, for the manufacture of boilers and pressure vessel equipment in minerals processing equipment, vessels for the oil and gas industry and vessels for waste disposal.
