Steel Strip

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 [...]

BSS are pleased to announce that they can now offer galvanised steel strip from stock.  
We can offer electro-zinc and hot dipped in coil or sheet, both smooth and bright spangled in standard and structural grades including Z2, Z28, Z35, Z39.
Our thickness range is from  0.5mm to 3mm.
This is in addition to  our existing range of [...]

Back in 2000 the EU issued a range of standards to rationlise the various steel classifications that applied in the individual member states. Whilst the new standards were designed to supercede the National equivalents in some countries, and particularly in the UK , steel users have been slow to adapt.
Six years on however it is increasingly [...]

Recently I mentioned that BSS had been appointed the agents in the UK for Rizzato Nastri Acciaio SpA.
Rizzato specialise in cold rolled high carbon steel strip, in the annealed and the hardnened and tempered condition, primarily for the production of springs. The facility benefits from having two Zendzimir [...]

An oversight on my part meant that Reddifast Steels did not appear on our hardened and tempered page at Steel Strip Resources. Reddifast are able to offer a steel strip in a range of qualities, including, mild steel, spring steel, stainless and hardened and tempered.
Furthermore, they offer a a precision slitting and shearing service.