2/16/2012

Knowing Detail Features of Different Steel Products

Following the development of industrial revolution and advanced technology, the steel area is being rapid advances, all kind of new technologies are used in steel products to improve the features of steel. Today's construction industry has been rapid progress, the demand of steel suppliers, a higher demand of quality and quantity of steel products. Generally speaking, there are some differences in steel prices and features for different products, the below will give some detail instruction to the often using steel series.

According to the shape of steel, the steel products can be divided into many types, such as steel pipes, steel coil, steel sheet, etc. via the related marketing survey, we have found that Seamless Pipes are widely used different areas. It is known that Seamless Pipe is a hollow sections, peripheral joints round, square, rectangular steel. Seamless steel pipes with hollow cross-section, a large number of solid steel pipes, steel round bar used for conveying fluids compared to the same torsional strength in bending, lighter, is an economic cross-section steel, widely used in the manufacture of the structure parts and mechanical parts, such as drill pipe, automotive drive shafts, bicycle frames, and the construction using steel scaffolding.

There is another steel tube, which is called rectangular tube. The rectangular tube is a hollow square cross-section of light thin-walled steel pipe, also known as steel cold-formed profiles. It is made ​​by the Q235 hot rolled or cold rolled strip or coil for parent metal forming by cold bending after the high-frequency welding steel of square cross-section shape and size. Hot-rolled special thick-walled square tubes in addition to wall thickness of thickening, the size of the corner and edge straightness to achieve even more than the resistance welding of cold formed square tube level. And it is widely used in the manufacture of mechanical parts and engineering structures. Also commonly used for the production of conventional weapons, the barrel shells.

Because the difference of rolling temperature, rolling steel can be divided into hot rolled steel and cold rolled steel. Simply speaking, a billet in the heating, rolling through several re-trimming, corrective become steel plate, which is called hot-rolled-steel. The feature of hot rolled steel plate is low hardness, easy processing and good quality. Cold rolled steel is steel plate further rolled into a target thickness of the plate at room temperature. Comparing to hotrolled steel plate, cold rolled sheet thickness is more precise and smooth surface, beautiful and offers a variety of superior mechanical properties, especially the processing performance. And cold rolled steel is often used for cars, refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances, and industrial equipment, construction materials.

In addition to the above-mentioned steel products, there are so many featured steel, like galvanized steel, galvalume steel, prepainted steel, etc. Owing to different features, they will play a different role in related areas.

In modern steel marketing, steel prices are changing based on the economic trends, and steel suppliers are different according to region differences. In order to find the high quality steel suppliers that can provide the proper steel prices and then getting the long cooperation, the internet marking is become important, nowadays, more and more companies own their website of steel to promote their steel products and services, via these ways, for most steel demanders, they can get total information about latest steel market. 

2/01/2012

Africa’s Colourful and Emerging Steel Market


As you may know, there is a good and emerging market in Africa, because the demand of Steel Products is strong for the region’s development, whilst the markets in Europe and America are already quite mature.

More and more trading companies are focusing on Africa and would like to grasp the exciting opportunity to obtain more and more market share in the shortest possible time.

The Steel Products we’ve experienced a heavy demand for in Africa range from Hot Rolled Steel Plate, Galvanized Steel Sheet and Galvanized Steel Coil to Black Welded Pipe and Square Tube or Rectangular Tube. These Steel Products are indeed a diverse mix in this market and the quantity, per type of Steel Product requested in this region, is very abundant.

No trading company dealing with the Steel Products in this industry can let this excellent opportunity pass by. It is, however, obvious that good and bad quality Steel Products are intermingled in this market.

Several months ago, we received an inquiry of 500 tons of Square Tube and Rectangular Tube (Square Tube: 25x25x0.75 --50x50x0.75mm, length 5.7m). As we have affluent experience, we tried our best to provide the best and latest steel prices based on the wall thickness tolerance +/-10%, but our customer received another price nearly 20USD/TON lower than our offer. It was clear that this rival supplier must be providing a much larger wall thickness tolerance to achieve such a low quotation. It was indeed proved that we were right, because when the customer received the Square Tube and Rectangular Tube, the wall thickness was far thinner than his request and he was not satisfied at all.

In order to avoid such problems, we always recommend our customers to carry out an SGS or BV inspection before the goods are delivered to the port. It is equally important to stipulate this in the contract you sign with your supplier, as it will push the supplier to take extra special care in ensuring the Square Tube or Rectangular Tube for example, will indeed be manufactured to the parameters agreed upon in the contract. This way it will give you better peace of mind in knowing the Steel Products you receive will be spot on.