This British Standard has been prepared under the direction of the Iron and Steel Standards Policy Committee and is technically identical to BS 2989 : 1991 except for the deletion of the structural qualities together with any reference to them in the text.
This standard, together with BS EN 10147, supersedes BS 2989: 1991 which is withdrawn. The structural qualities are specified in BS EN 10147 which is published simultaneously with this standard. Work is going on in Europe to prepare a standard covering the dimensional tolerances for coated products and when the project achieves European Standard status it will be published as BS EN 10143 and this standard will be withdrawn. dimensions and shape for hot-dip zinc coated and iron-zinc alloy coated steel flat rolled products as specified in BS EN 10142 and BS EN 10147.
This standard applies to products supplied in the form of wide strip. sheet or plate cut from wide strip and slit wide strip.