Cold Reduced Steel Sheet

We stock steel sheet and plate in 36 48 and 60 widths and in 96 120 and 144 lengths.

Cold reduced steel sheet.

Cold rolled steel is essentially hot rolled steel that has had further processing. Cold formed steel especially in the form of thin. The major d ifference between hot rolled and cold rolled steel is the way they are processed. Cold rolled steel for cold forming and deep drawing is available in a range of grades.

The cold reduction operation induces very high strains work hardening into the sheet. The steel is processed further in cold reduction mills where the material is cooled at room temperature followed by annealing and or tempers rolling. Cold reduced steel sheet. Kloeckner metals uk holds a complete strip mill stock range which includes hot rolled and cold reduced steel sheets.

Cold reduced steel is so cold because of its production at room temperature. Jis g3141 cold reduced carbon steel sheets and strip 1. Offers hot and cold rolled steel sheet and hot and cold rolled steel plate in a broad range of lengths widths gauges alloys and specifications to meet your material requirements. Rolling is the most common steel forming method and generally happens at ambient or room temperature.

Each grade is designed for particular applications allowing you to pick the best steel for your product. But cold reduced steel is flattened without the application of heat which produces a sheet metal that s very strong smooth and slim. Cold formed steel cfs is the common term for steel products shaped by cold working processes carried out near room temperature such as rolling pressing stamping bending etc. Whereas cold rolled steel is processed in cold reduction mills followed by annealing and tempering.

Cold reduced steel sheets general information. Thus the sheet not only becomes thinner but also becomes much harder less ductile and very difficult to form. Usually steel sheets are manipulated at very high temperatures. Industrial metal supply co.

Scope this japanese industrial standard specifies the cold reduced carbon steel sheets coils and strip hereafter referred to as steel sheet and coil including the cold rolled strip steel steel coils less than 500 mm in width during cold rolling and also the cut lengths there from. Cold rolled steel sheet and coil dc01 bs en 10130 2006 cold rolled steel often referred to as cold reduced or cr is a low carbon product produced using raw material such as coke and coal at steel mills through out the world. However after the cold reduced product is annealed heated to high temperatures it becomes very soft and formable. Stock bars and sheets of cold rolled steel crs are commonly used in all areas of manufacturing the terms are opposed to hot formed steel and hot rolled steel.

Our forming steel is available in a choice of widths up to 2050 mm and thicknesses up to 3 mm.