Admit it, you’re good. You’ve built a reputation crafting high-performance axles, gears, camshafts and other parts. But as new race car designs place even greater demands on lighter, stronger and more resilient materials, what’s your game plan? What steels are best suited for the higher and more complex loads?

To support your needs, Ovako has developed a special range of steel grades called IQ-Steel. Previously known as OvaX, these high-performance X grades are being optimized to let you economically slim down your gears, bearings, and other parts to meet new design requirements. Take a gearbox, for example, that can be made lighter, with higher power density, to make room for other space-competing systems.

How is this all possible? The secret lies in a clean and consistent modern steelmaking method that removes harmful inclusions. It gives the steel isotropic properties,meaning you get strength in all directions.  Not a bad thing when you’re designing the axle on a 3,000 horsepower dragster that can accelerate from 0 to 300 mph in seconds, placing enormous stress on steel parts. So it’s little wonder that leading race teams across the globe rely on our steels to design and build world-class engines and gearboxes.

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