This Standard is included in DIN Handbook 3 E, 404/1 E and 404 E. Provides the technical delivery requirements for: - semi-finished products, hot formed (e.g. blooms, billets, slabs); - bars; - rods; - wide flats; - hot or cold rolled sheet/plate and strip; - hammer and drop forgings manufactured from direct hardening alloyed or unalloyed steels.