Façades and cladding

Stainless steel is the perfect façade and cladding material

Make a statement with stainless steel

Chrysler Building, Petronas Towers, One Canada Square, Burj Khalifa, One World Trade Center, Ping An Financial Center. What do these landmarks around the world have in common?

Outokumpu stainless steel façades and cladding.

Aesthetically versatile, sustainable, and durable – stainless steel is the ideal façade and cladding material.

Download our Architect’s Façade Design Guide to discover how to design stunning timeless façades with Outokumpu's sustainable stainless steel.
Landmark buildings and bridges make a statement. When they're built with stainless steel, that statement reflects an enduring legacy of timeless beauty, exceptional strength, and unmatched durability.
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Material beyond aesthetics.

Support your design and planet equally by using Circle Green stainless steel with the world's smallest carbon footprint.

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Three reasons to choose stainless steel for your façade design

Sustainable and green

Made from 90% recycled materials and 100% recyclable at the end of its life cycle, Outokumpu’s stainless steel is ideal for building sustainably.

To make sustainability reporting transparent on we also provide a product-specific carbon footprint  for our products.

With the Outokumpu Circle Green product line, we have gone even further. Its carbon footprint is 93% lower than the rest of the industry average.

Stunning and timeless

Stainless steel is a durable, yet versatile material that can be processed to form architectural structures in a variety of shapes, sizes, patterns, and finishes – both indoors and outdoors.

Durable and versatile

Stainless steel reflects its surroundings, allowing the façade to adapt to the environment around it.

With stainless steel, you can create stunning and timeless façades that will keep their appearance for decades, with minimal maintenance.

Certified sustainable façade architecture - gain LEED points with Outokumpu stainless steel

Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, which is why our goal is to reduce emissions through the whole production chain including scopes 1, 2 and 3 of the international Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, as much as possible. Outokumpu is the only stainless steel producer to have its climate targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). 

But we’re not stopping there.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the most widely- used green building rating system, developed by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). 

LEED certification standards apply to buildings that achieve high energy efficiency and use sustainable materials. The sustainable characteristics of Outokumpu stainless steel, such as high recycled content and long service life, are rewarded in this system. 

We offer LEED documentation for our products, which means that designers who select Outokumpu stainless steel can gain LEED points for their buildings. 

We also offer quantitative and verified information on the environmental impact of our main products for the architecture, building and construction in the form of environmental product declarations (EPDs). They provide independently -certified data so that architects can calculate the carbon footprint of their buildings. 

As the first stainless steel producer in the world, we also provide product-specific carbon footprint information to simplify your sustainability calculations.

Versatile cladding and façades with stainless steel

Applications and uses

  • Innovative exterior cladding
  • Frame structures for canopies and balconies
  • Glass façade frame structures
  • Nets in varying thicknesses for supplementary structures and balustrades

Performance and possibilities

  • Durable and corrosion resistant
  • Long lifespan with low life-cycle costs
  • The sustainable choice: Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) and product-specific carbon footprint calculations available for all product forms
  • Wide range of aesthetically pleasing surface finishes
  • Finishes that can improve a building’s solar reflective index and energy absorption
  • The best aesthetic experience that reflects the weather conditions

Stainless steel products suited for façade design

Get to know our façade-oriented product range and find the right surface finish for your design from our Deco comparison tool. 
 

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Supra
Forta
Outokumpu Circle Green

Case examples from around the world

Article

What if beauty lasted for centuries?

Case One World Trade Center

Design shines for the ages

Making of

Making of Birmingham New Street Station

Case Ping An

Megatall with iconic steel façade

Case Goldman Sachs Tower

Stainless landmark glows golden

Article

Buildings of the big apple

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What if cities were built tall and green?

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Further processing of stainless steel

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Fabrication of stainless steel

Outokumpu's guide for architects

Download our Façade Design Guide

Are you looking for a durable yet versatile material that can be processed to form architectural structures in a variety of shapes and sizes? Download our Façade Design Guide and discover how to design stunning timeless façades with stainless steel.
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Pdf sample booklet

Download our Deco sample booklet

Would you like to study 27 of Outokumpu’s special surface finishes in detail? Click below to order our Deco sample booklet pdf.

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Downloads

Special Surfaces - Outokumpu Deco Range
Deco Linen Datasheet
Deco Linen without slubs Datasheet
Deco Supermatt Datasheet
Outokumpu publishes environmental product declarations (EPD) for its main stainless steel products. We are currently updating the documents and they will be published soon on our website.

If you have any questions, please send a message to: sustainability@outokumpu.com and we will be in touch.
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LEED points summary
Safety information sheet for stainless steel in Europe
RoHS 2018
A selection of Stainless steel complying with BASTA and BVB
Atmospheric Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steel
Stainless steel at slightly elevated temperatures
The suitability of stainless steels for road constructions
Austenitic and duplex stainless steels used as construction materials
Corrosion properties of UNS S32101 – Reinforcement bar
A new lean duplex stainless steel for construction purposes
Weight optimisation in offshore construction
MIC on stainless steels in wastewater treatment plants
Stainless steel rebar
Utilization of the material strength for lower weight and cost with LDX 2101