On Feb 9th, a truck loading 600 kg of stainless steel with a thickness of only 0.02 mm was transported from Shanxi Taiyuan to Germany, which is currently the thinnest stainless steel in China.
This stainless steel with a thickness of 0.02mm and a width of 600 mm is also called "hand-tipped steel". The reporter saw the “hand tear steel” at Taigang Precision Strip Steel Co., Ltd, which is only a quarter of the thickness of A4 paper, was easily torn by workers.
    The size of the stainless steel precision strip is generally between 0.05 and 0.5 mm. Those below 0.05 mm are called stainless steel foil. At present, most of the soft stainless steel in the market is 0.05 mm. The 0.02 mm stainless steel produced this time is a leading-edge product more excellent than those of present industry standard. This ultra-thin stainless steel is mainly used in industries like aerospace, petrochemical, automotive, electronics, home appliances, computers and other fields.
    The product "Made in China" has attracted attention from social networks at home and abroad. The advent of the thinnest stainless steel not only broke the long-term monopoly by foreign countries but also raised the production process of stainless steel foil to the world's leading level.