Steel Ingots and Steel Billets What’s the Difference? Forgers use steel billets or ingots to produce a variety of steel products, including components or steel bars in round/ square/flats shapes. However, billets and ingots possess different properties. Here is a…
The steel continuously goes through the casting machine without any contact with air or refractory to make very clean steel. The new state of the art closed continuous caster by Primetals UK (Concast India) is equipped with EMS (Electro magnetic…
Steel Scrap Versus Iron Ore: What’s the Difference? Alloy steel has one of the wide range of steels used in the industry. Manufacturers may produce alloy steel using iron ore as raw materials or using steel scrap. So, what is…
Steel manufacturers use ladle refining furnaces ( LRF ) in the steel-making process for manufacture of quality steel. It is basically an arcing process, arcing between molten metal and the graphite electrodes. After tapping the molten steel from Electric Melting…
Almost everyone is familiar with the fact that heat plays an important part in steels, be it carbon steel, alloy steel, tool & die steel or stainless steel. Heat treatment is the controlled treatment of steel to the heating and…
When it comes to the quality of your steel items, including alloy steel, you want the process that is going to result in the highest-quality product in the end. A high-quality product starts with high-quality steel, which are made from…
Any type of metal that you can think of will have impurities after the initial melting process. With the vacuum-degassing process, the atmospheric pressure above the liquid steel is reduced. More specifically, this pressure is reduced to less than 1…
Producing and manufacturing steel is accomplished in several different ways, and many people get confused by the terms hot rolling and hot forging. However, they are certainly not the same thing. In producing steel, you can use several processes; however,…
Every type of metal, including alloy steel, is composed of tiny parts called grains. These grains combine together and make the respective metal. We can quantify the grain size by different testing methods. The boundary of each grain is called…
Do you know the Difference Between Macro-Alloy and Micro-Alloy Steels? Alloy steel can be micro-alloyed or macro-alloyed steel, and the difference includes the other types of metals included in the process, as well as the amounts of those metals. Macro-…
Learning the difference between iron and steel is simple because iron is a naturally occurring element found in rocks under the earth’s surface and steel is manufactured by mixing iron with other elements. You can literally find iron all over…