We provide Nickel, Chromium into our metal to protect them from wear and corrosion. Many of the aspects we use to make Stainless Steel products, have to do with corrosion and the chromium oxide skin that is produced in oxygen environments. We drop our strength when compared to carbon steels and we increase the price dramatically. But, what if there was a way to get the wearability and the corrosion strength without the added cost of 300 series stainless? You would not be able to provide the protection in a coating, it would have to be part of the metal, something that could not be worn away or scrap off and prematurely fail, due to processing or due to environment unforeseen measurements.  Co-Cr, has been called the stainless steel equivalent for years. It has been the application of the (Co-Cr) which was in question. Now we have a SMART process version of Co-Cr.