• premium product with extra margin • hard to copy as requires R&D and technological advance • high likelihood to sell (or include in price) additional services such as recommendations for bending, welding, cutting of steel sheets

• metal slabs S700 and of higher grade require special rollers with high-load capacity, unlike S500 and thicknesses below, as well as expensive, faster cooling systems • demand in Russia for HSS 900 is less than 0.5% • hot rolled state leads to quick corrosion while clients require non-corrosion state • additional costs needed for high standard packaging protecting from corrosion and damage during transport

• blue ocean strategy - few competitors on the market are able to produce HSS 900 • increase of EBITDA and market share

• high R& D costs • sales team is not comfortable with selling new products which substitute standard ones • the Chinese are already producing UHSS 2000, though at an exorbitant price • such grade is almost impossible to bend & requires machine tools available to only a very few in Europe • higher wear and tear of a steel plant equipment involve higher maintenance costs and failure cases

Yield strength above 1200 MPa cuts vehicle weight without cutting safety margins — and the market is already lining up

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CHELYABINSK, Russia, 30 July 2026 — Have you ever wondered how much thinner a crane boom or a truck chassis could be before it simply gave way? Nordural Steel believes it has found the answer. Today the company moves into full commercial production of X1200, a new ultra-high-strength steel (UHSS) grade with a guaranteed yield strength above 1200 MPa. The headline figure: engineers switching from standard S355 plate to X1200 can go about redesigning load-bearing structures with up to 30% less material, shedding dead weight while holding the same safety margin. That single fact reshapes the economics of heavy transport engineering — less steel per tonne of payload means lower fuel consumption, and lower fuel consumption is exactly what regulators are demanding. Brussels raised its 2030 emissions target for heavy-duty vehicles to a 45% cut against 2019 levels — a target manufacturers cannot get round without lighter, stronger components. Nordural spent three years trying out alloy combinations and rolling-mill settings before its metallurgists came up with a molybdenum-boron chemistry stable enough for series production — and one that has already caught on with early customers. “Every fleet operator we’ve spoken to is getting into lightweighting because the regulation leaves no alternative,” said Elena Voskresenskaya, Nordural’s Head of R&D. “Customers who read up on our pilot data reach the same conclusion we did.” Early adopters back the claim. A trailer manufacturer in Wrocław, Poland, trialled X1200 panels on 40 semi-trailers and reported a 380 kg saving per unit — without losing EN 12642 load-rating certification. X1200 costs roughly three times more per tonne than standard hot-rolled coil, a premium Nordural defends on total-cost-of-ownership grounds rather than sticker price. Allocation for Q4 2026 is capped at 15,000 tonnes, and Nordural is prioritising customers who commit before September. Nobody dreamt up X1200 overnight. But few products have arrived at a better moment. • • •

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