C26800

CuZn33
Industrial Rolled
Alloy Designation Brass Rolled Products
EN CuZn33
DIN CEN/TS 13388 CW506L
JIS C 2680
BS CZ 103
UNS C26800 KME offers a wide range of brass rolled products in the form of strips,
sheets and discs in order to meet our customer’s needs for industrial
manufacturing or for the production of gift articles and decorative objects.
Chemical Composition
Weight percentage
Cu 67 % Characteristics

Zn Rest % CuZn33, as well as CuZn28 and CuZn30 is combining excellent cold forming
properties with good mechanical strength. CuZn30 has good hot forming
This alloy is in accordance with RoHS properties and excellent soldering and brazing properties. Due to the
2002/96/CE for electric & electronic equip- outstanding deep drawing properties CuZn33 and the other two
ments and 2002/53/CE for automotive industry
mentioned alloys are called “deep-draw” or “cartridge” brass.
We produce qualities with grain sizes below 5 µm if needed.

Main Applications
Architecture: Handrails, Grillwork
Automotive: Tanks, Radiator Cores
Builders Hardware: Locks, Push Plates, Finish Hardware, Kick Plates, Stencils.
Electrical: Socket Shells, Wire Flashlight Shells, Clips, Lamp Sockets, Lamp Fixtures, Screw Shells, Reflectors. Fasteners Grommets,
Eyelets, Screws, Rivets, Pins, Fasteners. Industrial Air Pressure Conveyer Systems, Bead Chain, Springs.
Marine: Fasteners.
Plumbing: Plumbing Accessories, Sanitary Traps, Sink Strainers, Bathroom Fixtures.
Typical Application: Metal goods, Deep drawn parts, Components for the electrical industry, stamped parts, Connectors.

Preferred Applications
Jewellery and Deep Drawn Components for the Stamped Connectors
Metall Goods Parts Electrical Industry Parts
xx xx xx xx x
x = well suited xx = particularly well suited

Physical Properties
Typical values in annealed temper at 20 °C
Density 8.5 g/cm³
Thermal expansion coefficient -128 .. 20 °C 9.0 10-6/K
20 .. 300 °C 19.9 10-6/K
Specific heat capacity 0.377 J/(g·K)
Thermal conductivity 121 W/(m·K)
Electrical conductivity (1 MS/m = 1 m/(Ω mm²) ≥ 15 MS/m
Electrical conductivity (IACS) 26 %
Thermal coefficient of electrical resistance (0 .. 100 °C) 1.6 10-3/K
Modulus of elasticity ( 1 GPa = 1 kN/mm²) cold formed 99 .. 115 GPa
annealed 112 GPa
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Mechanical Properties (EN 1652)
Temper Tensile Yield Strength Elongation Grain Size Hardness
Strength Minimum
Rm Rp0.2* A50mm HV *
MPa MPa % µm HV
R280 G010 Annealed 280 .. 380 ≤ 170 40 <15 ≤120
G020 Annealed 15 .. 30 ≤95
G030 Annealed 20 .. 40 ≤90
G050 Annealed 35 .. 70 ≤80
R350 350 .. 430 170 23 95 .. 125
R420 420 .. 500 300 6 125 .. 155
R500 > 500 450 3 > 155

* only for information

Electrical Conductivity

18 Electrical conductivity is strongly influenced by

chemical composition. A high level of cold deformation
17 and small grain size decrease the electrical conductivity
moderately. Minimum conductivity level can be
E. Conductivity [MS/m]

specified.
16

15

14

13

12
R280 R350 R420 R500
Temper

Fabrication Properties* Corrosion Resistance*

Cold Forming Properties Excellent Resistant to:
Max. 90% between annealings CuZn33 has a good resistance to water, water vapour,
Hot Forming Properties Good different saline solutions, many organic liquids. Industrial-,
maritime- and country air.
at 750 .. 870°C
Machinability (Rating 30) Fair CuZn33 in cold formed temper, as well as under internal and
external tension, tends to stress corrosion cracking, when in
Electroplating Properties Excellent contact with e.g. hydrous ammonia, ammoniac salt or amine
and others.
Hot Tinning Properties Excellent
Trough a heat-treatment of semi-finished or finished
Soft Soldering, Brazing Excellent products the risk of stress corrosion can be reduced.
Resistance Welding Good Not resistant to:
Acids, hydrous sulphur components, hydrous ammonia
Gas Shielded Arc Welding Fair
(stress corrosion cracking) in non-stress-relieved condition.
Laser Welding Less Suitable
* For more details call our technical service
Soft Annealing 450 .. 680°C
Stress Relieving Annealing 200 .. 300°C
* For more details call our technical service

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Bending Properties Thickness: ≤ 0.5 mm

6 Bending test according to EN ISO 7438 is done

bending edge transvers to rolling direction with 10 mm wide samples. Smaller samples in
relative Bending Radius R/T

5 general – as well as lower thickness – allow a

bending edge in rolling direction lower bending radius without cracks. If needed
we supply bending optimized temper classes that
4
90° Bending far exceed standard quality.
Please take care when comparing with ASTM E
3 290 results, there the bend definition direction is
contradictory.
2

1 Bending Definition

Transverse = good way

0
Parallel = bad way
R280 R350 R420 R500
Temper
6 180° Parallel
bending edge transvers to rolling direction
relative Bending Radius R/T

5 bending edge in rolling direction

4
180° Bending
90° Transverse
3
90° Parallel 180° Transverse
2

1 Minimum Bending Radius Calculation

To find out the minimum possible bending

0 radius take the R/T value from the list.
R280 R350 R420 R500 Example: R/T = 0.5 and thickness 0.3 mm
Temper Minimum radius = (R/T) x thickness
= 0.5 x 0.3 mm = 0.15 mm
Bending Properties*
Temper Thickness Bending 90° Bending 180°
Range
Trans- Parallel Trans- Parallel
vers vers
mm R/T R/T R/T R/T
R280 ≤ 0.5 0 0 0 0
R350 ≤ 0.5 0 0 0 0
R420 ≤ 0.5 0 0 - -
R500 ≤ 0.5 0.5 0,5 - -
* Measured at sample width 10 mm according to EN 1654
Possible bending radius = (R/T) x thickness

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Softening Resistance

200
After short time heat treatment Vickers
180 Hardness is measured. The diagram shows
R420 at 400°C
Vickers Hardness HV

160 R420 at 500°C typical values.

140 R420 at 600°C
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
0 10 30 60 180 300 1800 3600
Time [s]
200
180
R500 at 400°C
Vickers Hardness HV

160 R500 at 500°C

140 R500 at 600°C
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
0 10 30 60 180 300 1800 3600
Time [s]
Bend Fatigue (at room temperature)

The fatigue strength gives an indication about the resistance to variations in applied tension. It is measured under symmetrical
alternating load. The maximum bending load for 107 load cycles without crack is measured. Dependent on the temper class it is
approximately 1/3 of the tensile strength Rm.

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Relaxation Properties Values from CuZn30 Thermal stress relieved, CuZn33 will have lower values

100
Stress relaxation is tested with
90
cantilever bending test equipment. This
Remaining Stress [%]

80 method is taking short time relaxation

70 into account. so that the values
60 Initial Stress: achieved are very realistic, while other
50 50% of Rp0.2 test methods like tube test pretend
Parallel better properties from the achieved
40
Rolling Direction values. Relaxation values give an
30 indication about stress relieve of strip
20 R650 100°C
R650 150°C under tension for a certain time and
10 R650 200°C temperature. As it is measured on plain
0 strip. the behaviour of deformed parts
10 100 1000 10000 may differ. nevertheless the ratio
Time [h] between the different tempers remains
100 the same.
90
Remaining Stress [%]

80 Typical test sample thickness is 0.3 –

70 0.6 mm.
Initial Stress:
60 50% of Rp0.2
50 Transverse
40 Rolling Direction
30
20 R650 100°C
R650 150°C
10 R650 200°C
0
10 100 1000 10000
Time [h]
100
90
Remaining Stress [%]

80
70
60 Initial Stress:
50 80% of Rp0.2
Parallel
40
Rolling Direction
30
R650 100°C
20 R650 150°C
10 R650 200°C
0
10 100 1000 10000
Time [h]
100
90
Remaining Stress [%]

80
70
60 Initial Stress:
50 80% of Rp0.2
Transverse
40 Rolling Direction
30
20 R650 100°C
R650 150°C
10 R650 200°C
0
10 100 1000 10000
Time [h]
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Brass Processing

Resistance Welding
Gas Shielded Arc
Electro Polishing

Laser Welding
Gas Welding
Mechanical
Machining

Polishing

Welding
Brazing
Alloy
CuZn5 4 1 1 1 2 2 2 3
CuZn10 4 1 1 1 2 2 2 3
CuZn15 4 1 1 1 2 2 2 3
CuZn20 4 1 1 1 2 2 2 3
CuZn28 4 1 1 1 2 3 2 4
CuZn30 4 1 1 1 2 3 2 4
CuZn33 4 1 1 1 2 3 2 4
CuZn36 3 1 2 1 2 3 2 4
CuZn37 3 1 3 1 2 3 2 4
CuZn39Pb2 1 2 4 3 4 4 3 4
CuZn40 3 2 3 2 4 3 2 4
CuSn3Zn9 3 1 2 1 2 2 3 3
CuSn2Zn10
1= excellent 2 = good 3 = fair 4 = less suitable

Phase Diagram Copper Zink (after Struers Scientific Instruments)

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Camber Customized Tolerances

Our products are produced in accordance with relevant

Rolling direction norms EN 1652 / EN 1654. Customer specific tolerances for
Thickness, Width, Camber, Transverse Flatness, Evenness,
L Twist and Coil set can be defined. We will be happy to
meet your demands. EN 1652 defines only camber.
Evenness

Thickness Tolerance
Thickness EN 1652 KME KME
Range ≤350 mm Standard Precision
L [mm] [mm] [mm] [mm]

Coil set Twist 0.05 .. 0.20 ± 0.018 ± 0.005 ± 0.004

0.21 .. 0.30 ± 0.022 ± 0.007 ± 0.005

Rolling direction

0.31 .. 0.40 ± 0.025 ± 0.015 ± 0.006

0.41 .. 0.50 ± 0.030 ± 0.015 ± 0.008

0.51 .. 0.60 ± 0.040 ± 0.017 ± 0.010

L
angle
0.61 .. 0.70 ± 0.040 ± 0.020 ± 0.010

0.71 .. 0.85 ± 0.040 ± 0.022 ± 0.012

h h
0.86 .. 1.30 ± 0.050 ± 0.025 ± 0.015

Transverse Flatness 1.31 .. 2.00 ± 0.060 ± 0.030 ± 0.020

2.01 .. 3.00 ± 0.070 ± 0.045 ± 0.025

3.00 .. 4.00 ± 0.100 ± 0.050 ± 0.025

4.00 .. 6.00 ± 0.120 ± 0.060 ± 0.030

h Roughness
L Ra Thickness
Evenness Tolerance [µm] [mm]
Thickness Width Range 0.13 .. 0.18 0.1 .. 2.0
Range [mm]
[mm] 0.20 .. 0.30 0.1 .. 2.0
7 .. 20 21 .. 50 51 .. 100
0.35 .. 0.46 0.1 .. 2.0
0.10 .. 0.50 +0.10 +0.20 +0.30
On request > 2.0
0.50 .. 1.00 +0.15 +0.25 +0.35

Width Tolerance Standard / Precision

Thickness Width
Range Range
[mm] [mm]
10 .. 50 51 .. 100 101 .. 200 201 .. 350 351 .. 700 700 .. 1,000
0.10 .. 1.00 +0.2 / +0.1 +0.3 / +0.2 +0.4 / +0.3 +0.6 / +0.4 +1.0 / +0.5 -

0.20 .. 1.00 +0.2 / +0.1 +0.3 / +0.2 +0.4 / +0.3 +0.6 / +0.4 +1.0 / +0.5 +2.0

1.01 .. 2.00 +0.3 / +0.2 +0.4 / +0.2 +0.5 / +0.4 +1.0 / +0.6 +1.5 / +0.7 +2.0

2.01 .. 3.00 +0.5 / +0.3 +0.6 / +0.3 +0.7 / +0.5 +1.2 / +0.7 +2.0 / +0.9 +3.0

3.01 .. 6.00 +2.0 / - +2.3 / - +2.5 / - +3.0 / - +4.0 / - +6.0

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Industrial Rolled
Formats Dimension*

Coil Strip thickness (other thicknesses on request) ≥ 0.05 .. 6.00 mm

Strip width ≥ 3 .. 1,000 mm
Outside diameter ≤ 1,400 mm
Weight (Standard) ≤ 8,400 kg
Weight (Deep-Drawing Quality) ≤ 8,000 kg
Weight per mm ≤ 12.0 kg

Traverse wound Thickness ≥ 0.2 .. ≤ 1.50 mm

strip Width ≥ 8 .. ≤ 60.0 mm
Weight 300 .. 1,500 kg
Drums: wood, plastic, metal, flangeless

TECSTRIP® Thickness 0.18 .. 0.80 mm

_multicoil Width 15 .. 50 mm
Inner diameter 300 mm for thickness 0.15 .. 0.80 mm
Inner diameter 400 mm for thickness 0.41 .. 0.80 mm
Maximum weight 5,000 kg
Outer diameter maximum 1,600 mm

Sheet Thickness 0.3 .. 6.35 mm

≤ 6.35 mm Width 50 ..1,000 mm
Length 200 .. 6,500 mm
Weight 2,800 .. 8,000 kg
Sheets in standard dimensions
e.g. 1,000 x 2,000 mm on stock

Sheet Thickness 6.35 .. 9.50 mm

> 6.35 mm Width 50 .. 1,000 mm
Length 200 .. 7,500 mm
Weight ≤ 10,000 kg
Sheets in standard dimensions
e.g. 1,000 x 2,000 mm

Plate Thickness 9.5 .. 150 mm

Width ≤ 1,000 mm
Length ≤ 15,000 mm
Weight ≤ 8,000 kg

Disc Thickness 0.3 .. 150 mm

Diameter 20 .. 1,000 mm
Weight ≤ 10,000 kg

* Some combinations might not be possible

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Surface coatings & Special Treatments * Dimension

Hot-Dip tinned and Width ≤ 330 mm

STOL®28M Tin-Silver Thickness ≤ 1.5 mm
STOL®13 Thermic Sn Tin Layer Thickness 0.4 .. 20 µm

Different thickness per

side possible

Electroplating Width ≤ 400 mm

Thickness ≤ 2.5 mm

Tin, Silver, Gold,

Cu-Flash, Ni-Flash,
Selective plating Other coatings on request

Profiled strips Width 15 .. 90 mm

STOL®Multigauge Thickness 0.23 .. 1 mm

Other width on request

Bright and polished Width ≤ 1,000 mm

appearance Thickness ≤ 1.5 mm
Skin passed material, meaning it has been
GS1 Surface Quality

Surface with extra low

residual carbon content
possible.

Protection with oil or

adhesive foil on request

* Further details you find at www.kme.com

Standards for copper and copper alloys

EN 1652 Plate, sheet, strip and circles for general purposes

EN 1654 Strip for springs and connectors

EN 1758 Strip for lead frames

CuZn33_04_2019

EN 13148 Hot-dip tinned strip

EN 13599 Copper plate, sheet and strip for electrical purposes

EN 14436 Electrolytically tinned strip

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