- AFNOR
- - The Association Francaise de Normalisation. French standard for steel materials.
- AISI
- - American Iron and Steel Institute steel standard names. No longer maintained, but widespread worldwide. More modern US standards are UNS, ASTM. The most popular standard in knife industry.
- AS
- - Australian standard for steel materials.
- ASTM
- - American Society for Testing and Materials. Started out as US organization, now it is an international body. One of the largest standards maker.
- BDS
- - Bulgarian standard for steel materials.
- BS
- - British Standards.
- CSA
- - Canadian standard for steel materials.
- CSN
- - Originally Ceskoslovenská státni norma (Czechoslovakian state norm), now Ceská technická norma (Czech technical norm). Czech/Slovak standard for steel materials.
- DIN
- - Deutsches Institut für Normung, the German Institute for Standardization. One of the German standards for steel materials. See also W-Nr.
- EN
- - EuroNorm. used in European Union(EU) sountries. Theoretically this is the new standard accepted in all EU countries. Still, older standards such a DIN, W-Nr, AFNOR, UNI are more widespread.
- ELOT
- - Greek standard for steel materials.
- GB
- - Chinese standard for steel materials.
- GOST
- - Russian standard for steel materials.
- IS
- - India standard for steel materials.
- JIS
- - Japanese standard for steel materials. Developed and maintained by Japan Industrial Standards Committee.
- JUS
- - Yugoslav standard for steel materials. Used in the countries of former Yugoslav republic: Bosnia, Macedonia, Slovenia.
- KS
- - South Korea standard for steel materials.
- MSZ
- - Hungarian standard for steel materials.
- NBN
- - Belgian standard for steel materials.
- NS
- - Norwegian standard for steel materials.
- ONORM
- - Austrian standard for steel materials.
- PN
- - Poland standard for steel materials.
- SAE
- - Society of Automotive Engineers. One more US standard for steel materials. Never seen it used in knife industry.
- SFS
- - Finland standard for steel materials.
- SIS
- - Swedish Institute Of Standards. Swedish standard for steel materials.
- SNV
- - Switzerland standard for steel materials. See also VSM.
- SS
- - Another name of Swedish SIS standard for steel materials.
- STAS
- - Romanian standard for steel materials.
- TSE
- - Turkeys'' standard for steel materials.
- UNE
- - Spanish standard for steel materials.
- UNI
- - Italian standard for steel materials.
- UNS
- - Unified Numbering System. More modern US standard for steels and ferous alloys.
- VSM
- - Switzerland standard for steel materials. See also SNV
- W-Nr
- - Werkstoffnummer (Material Number). One of the German standards for steel materials. Seel also DIN.
Last updated - 05/25/19