OREANDA-NEWS. July 27, 2012. Baosteel cutlery stainless steel has passed the certification of IKEA Sweden headquarters, and starting to supply cutlery stainless steel for export only for IKEA's suppliers, which indicates that Baosteel cutlery stainless steel has entered ordinary European families as knives and forks. This is also a break through Baosteel has made in European and American trade barrier by green manufacturing process, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

Cutlery stainless steel is extensively used in producing high-grade knives, sabers, mixing blades for soya-bean milk maker, razor blades, etc. Since its first outcome, Baosteel cutlery stainless steel is favored by domestic users because of its hardness, corrosion resistance and high plate yield, and Baosteel is the supplier for several Chinese leading enterprises of metal-cutting tools manufacturing.

IKEA, as the largest furniture and homeware retailer in the world, in vision of "to create a better everyday life for the many people", has a high requirement on the products' environment-protecting, while providing high quality goods to the public.

ucts during production process, and has a strictly control on heavy metals like chromium and lead. While to export cutter products to European countries should pass the SGS European Food Security Detection, which has a large difficulty in controling the steel process technology and limited the export of many stainless cutters.

As for this, Baosteel International, Foshan Baosteel cooperated with Baosteel Stainless, payed a strict attention to the environment, and cooperated with those suppliers in good environment performances. During the production, acUp to now, IKEA has organizations in 41 countries and districts, and 1074 suppliers in nearly 50 countries, which mainly supplies 9500 kinds of products.

As knives and forks related to people's food security, IKEA pays special attention to the security of green prodcording to IKEA's special demand, they payed special attention to the control of heavy metals, adopted the "Standard + a" production mode, and added the element of nitrogen, strengthen the production hardness. With the trial products and IKEA headquarters' certification, the knives and forks made by Baosteel stainless steel have all passed the SGS European Security Detection and Domestic Heavy Metal Migrated Detection. Up to now, IKEA designated Baosteel stainless as the supplier of raw material on cutlery stainless steel.