Security steel
For decades, C.A.PICARD® has been counted among the world’s best manufacturers of special purpose steel solutions for specialist industries which fulfil utmost demands. Our knowledge of materials is based on our history – since the founding of our company in 1876, we have been ideally combining experience, know-how and development.
For human safety, we have been delivering HC Protect® and SC Protect – security steels of the latest generation – for military forces, civil defence and money transporters since 2006. Innovative production processes permit to combine contradictory properties such as extremely-high hardness and ductility in one material and thus to ensure superior performance. Guaranteed mechanical properties and lowest thickness tolerances make a weight-optimised design of ballistic protection possible.
By means of its particular multi-hit capability with low weight, HC Protect® offers a secure efficiency against hard-core ammunition in a compound system against various kinds of threat, while SC Protect offers utmost efficiency against soft-core ammunition.
Thanks to long-time experience, unique production possibilities and continuous development in close cooperation with our customers, we offer tailor-made solutions which meet your requirements.
Application areas:
- Military forces
- Civil defence
- Money transporters
Particularities:
- Multi-hit capability
- Low thicknesses (less weight)
- Suitable as compound system
- Stand-alone utilization is possible
- Low thickness tolerance
Services:
- Various thicknesses are available from stock
- Compound systems can be designed on demand
- Customized thicknesses are possible with HC Protect® 160 and 175 (not with HC Protect® L)
| HC Protect® 160 | HC Protect® 160 L | HC Protect® 175 | HC Protect® 175 L | SC Protect 140 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface hardness: | HRC | 62-65 | 62-65 | 62-65 | 62-65 | 50 ± 2 |
| Core hardness: | HRC | approx. 45 | approx. 45 | approx. 42 | approx. 42 | – |
| Maximum Dimension: | mm | 850 x 2500 | 850 x 2500 | 1250 x 2500 | 1250 x 2500 | 1500 x 4500 |
| Available thicknesses: | mm | 6.0 – 12.0 | 6.0 – 12.0 | 2.0 – 7.0 | 2.0 – 7.0 | 1.2 – 5.0 |
| Thickness tolerance: | mm | -0/+0.1 | -0/+0.3 | -0/+0.1 | -0/+0.3 | -0/+0.3 |
| Flatness: | mm/m | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Weldability: | – | no | no | no | no | limited |
| Formability: | – | only before heat treatment* | only before heat treatment* | only before heat treatment* | only before heat treatment* | lmited* |
* Constructionally limited, only after consulting
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