This European Standard applies to welding consumables for hardfacing. The range of application includes surfaces of new structural components, semi-finished products as well as repair of surfaces of structural components which have to resist to mechanical, chemical, thermal or combined stress.

This European Standard specifies requirements for classification of the consumables based on their chemical composition of the all weld metal of covered electrodes, cored wires, cored rods, cored strips, sintered strips, sintered rods and metal powders and on the chemical composition of solid wires, solid rods, solid strips and cast rods.