Hardox is a very wear-resistant sheet steel. Hardox is manufactured and exported worldwide by the Swedish company SSAB, which developed the first modern wear-resistant sheet in 1974. As this steel wears slowly, even under large mechanical loads, Hardox is also called wear plate. This fact is especially interesting for companies that quarry gravel and sand as, for example, excavator buckets or dump truck bodies made from HARDOX last fast longer.