TRUECORE® STEEL
TRUECORE® steel with Activate® technology is an aluminium/zinc/magnesium alloy coated structural steel with a distinctive blue resin surface finish. Here at Maintek Roofing, battens made from TRUECORE® steel are our trusted choice to give your home the strength and finish it deserves.
TRUECORE® steel, with Active® technology, revolutionises structural framing with its exceptional properties. It’s used in residential house framing and building frames for mid-rise buildings including multi-unit dwellings, schools and aged care facilities.
TRUECORE® steel is made by BlueScope to strict tolerances and fully complies with all relevant Australian Standards. Light gauge steel framing is a precision engineered product manufactured to accurate dimensions and this helps to ensure walls are straight and true. With their distinctive blue finish, frames made from TRUECORE® steel incorporate BlueScope’s Activate® technology which provides enhanced corrosion resistance. Activate® coating technology is an important component of BlueScope products installed across a range of environments and building applications. Where there are cut edges from drilling or cutting operations, the galvanic action of the coating protects the exposed steel edge against corrosion.
Precision-engineered house frames, made from TRUECORE® steel are lightweight and easy to move around the site for efficient installation.
TRUECORE® steel is 100% termite and borer proof. It’s not treated with insecticides to keep termites from eating your frame, so it is an ideal choice for those seeking to minimise the use of insecticides in their home.
TRUECORE® steel won’t ignite or contribute to the spread of house fire, giving added peace of mind. When used as part of the NASH bushfire standard,
frames made from TRUECORE® steel can help provide simple design solutions to achieve compliance to the National Construction Code (NCC) – even in the most
severely rated Flame Zone1.
All TRUECORE® steel contains recycled content2 and the steel itself is 100% recyclable. Frames made from TRUECORE® steel are lightweight, durable and can be screw assembled – highly suitable for modular design, and can be designed for disassembly and reuse.
TRUECORE® steel with Activate® technology is the ultimate choice for Nautical Roofing when it comes to structural framing. Its combination of strength, durability, versatility, pest resistance, fire resistance, dimensional stability, and environmental sustainability makes it our ideal material choice for modern construction projects.
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1For further information on building to the NASH Standard – Steel Framed Construction in Bushfire Areas please visit nash.asn.au.
2Across the range of steel products manufactured by BlueScope in Australia, the average recycled content (according to recycled content categories defined in ISO 14021:2016) in the steel is 25.0%, which includes pre- and post-consumer recycled materials. Scrap and iron-bearing materials generated and reclaimed from BlueScope’s steelmaking, including the BF-BOS process up to slab casting, represent 1.7% of the product mass, which is not reported as recycled content. Scrap arising from downstream processes, such as plate and coil milling, rolling, tempering, annealing, pickling, metallic coating, painting, rollforming and/or fabrication are included as pre-consumer recycled content. The figures provided are based on FY23 data.