| category |
| silicon content | nominal thickness | main application |
| Hot-rolled silicon steel (non-oriented) | Hot rolled low silicon steel（dynamo steel） | 1.0-2.5 | 0.5 | Household motors and micromotors |
| Hot rolled high silicon steel (transformer steel) | 3.0-4.5 | 0.35/0.50 | transformer |
| Cold rolled electrical steel | Cold-rolled non-oriented electrical steel（dynamo steel） | Cold-rolled oriented silicon steel(Transformer steel) | ≤0.5 | 0.50、0.65 | Household motors, micromotors, small transformers and ballasts |
| silicon steel | >0.5～3.5 | 0.35、0.50 | Large and medium-sized motors, generators and transformers |
| Cold-rolled oriented silicon steel(Transformer steel) | Ordinary oriented silicon steel | 2.9～3.3 | 0.18、0.23、0.27 0.30、0.35 | Large, medium and small transformers and ballasts |
| Highly magnetically oriented silicon steel |
Special purpose silicon steel:
Cold rolled oriented silicon steel thin strip | 2.9～3.3 | 0.03、0.05、0.10 | Pulse transformers, magnetic amplifiers, high frequency transformers and welding machines |
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| Cold rolled non-oriented silicon steel strip | 3 | 0.15、0.20 | High-frequency motors and generators |
| Cold-rolled non-oriented silicon steel for magnetic switches | 3 | 0.7 | Relays and magnetic switches |
| Cold-rolled non-oriented silicon steel for magnetic switches | 6.5 | 0.1～0.5 | High frequency motors, transformers and magnetic shielding |
