Steel Strip

Manufacturing in Germany and the U.K. declined in May, choked by record commodity prices and slowing economic growth across Europe.
German production, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, dropped 2.4 percent from April, the biggest decline since February 1999, the Economy Ministry in Berlin said today. The index of U.K. manufacturing production unexpectedly fell to [...]

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The latest report from MEPS
The relentless upward movement in EU prices continues. Customers are obliged to accept the new higher third quarter values demanded by local producers. Prices of imported strip into Europe are still increasing this month, although less material is entering the region. There is relatively little steel from China due to the [...]

Although it’s been known "unofficially" for a week or two, Corus have announced that it will increase the basis for it’s flat rolled products in the UK.
The price increases will be at least 150 pounds per tonne for hot rolled steel, 175 pounds per tonne for cold reduced steel and 200 pounds for hot dipped [...]

Sadly market conditions and raw material prices have lead to the closure of one of the UK’s independent cold rolling companies.
Based in Wednesbury, West Midlands, Pinnstrip Steel have specialised in manufacturing Cold Rolled mild steel products, for over 20 years.
An online auction of the plant and equipment is to be held by GoIndustry, details here.
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We are all now aware of the escalating costs of steel. Whilst the steel makers began increasing steel prices in January, the cost of cold rolled steel strip has been  slower to catch up. The increases are now however beginning to impact upon the cold rolled marketplace, with prices increasing rapidly around the world.
Whilst changing [...]

Searching for details of steel specifications on the web can be frustrating. General search engines do a good job of general searches and can return highly relevant results on many subjects. The practice however of naming steel specifications by a sequence of letters and numbers can make it difficult for the searches to return the [...]

EN 10132-4 is the European Standard for cold rolled narrow steel strip for heat treatment. These grades are commonly used in the production of springs, washers, circlips, hand tools, blades etc.
Typically after pressing and forming in the annealed condition, the components are then heat treated to achieve the required hardness and tensile strengths.
Details of the [...]

Hardening and Tempering is a thermal process that strengthens steel through a controlled heating and cooling process Hardened and tempered steel strip, is used in many applications including saws, cutting tools as well as springs.
This process will result in improved mechanical properties and give a tougher more durable product. The hardening process involves heating the [...]

 
SeverCorr will start up its tandem cold-rolling mill April 1, John Correnti, CEO said Tuesday at the Port of Tampa’s 18th annual steel conference. Correnti said his Mississippi-based mini-mill is already purchasing limited tonnage of hot-rolled coil and has already started the pickling and oiling line. He added that he’s now buying hot-rolled from Ohio-based [...]