While it is common to find stainless steel in a large variety of different industries and applications, there are varying grades of stainless steel that are all useful for different products. It is important to know what type you need, and which will be most useful to you. One such class is Grade 430 stainless steel. Typically, the type of stainless steel that you are going to find in everyday life is made from Grades 304 or 316. While 430 is similar to these, there are major differences that separate it from the others. The big difference is that stainless steel 430 is ferritic, as opposed to the 300 series which are all normally austenitic. There are some subtle differences between ferritic and austenitic steels, but what it means at a chemical level is that ferritic steels have a body centered cubic crystalline structure instead of one that is face centered.