Types of Metal Dimensions
We Currently Operate On:
Mild Steel & Stainless Steel Sheets
Mild Steel & Stainless Steel Tubes
Mild Steel & Stainless Steel Bright Bars
Cast Iron & Iron-Carbon Alloys
We can work on any of the mentioned materials and their subtypes ranging from 0.5 mm to 12 mm.
Mild Steel
Mild steel is a type of low carbon steel. Carbon steels are metals that contain a small percentage of carbon (max 2.1%) which enhances the properties of pure iron. The carbon content varies depending on the requirements for the steel. Low carbon steels contain carbon in the range of 0.05 to 0.25 percent.
Some mild steel’s physical properties are as follows:
High tensile strength
High impact strength
Good ductility and weldability
A magnetic metal due to its ferrite content
Good malleability with cold-forming possibilities
Not suitable for heat treatment to improve properties
Stainless Steel
The advantageous properties of stainless steels can be seen when compared to standard plain carbon mild steel. Although stainless steels have a broad range of properties, in general, when compared with mild steel, stainless steels have:
Higher corrosion resistance
Higher cryogenic toughness
Higher work hardening rate
Higher hot strength
Higher ductility
Higher strength and hardness
A more attractive appearance
Lower maintenance
Cast Iron
Cast iron is an alloy of iron that contains 2 to 4 percent carbon, along with varying amounts of silicon and manganese and traces of impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus. It is made by reducing iron ore in a blast furnace. The liquid iron is cast, or poured and hardened, into crude ingots called pigs, and the pigs are subsequently remelted along with scrap and alloying elements in cupola furnaces and recast into molds for producing a variety of products.
The advantageous properties of cast iron can be seen when compared to standard plain carbon mild steel:
Better Hardness and durability than stainless steel
Tougher than stainless steel but more brittle than stainless steel
Higher thermal conductivity than stainless steel
Lower elastic ductility than stainless steel
Lower malleability than stainless steel
More fatigue resistance when exposed to static forces and less when exposed to dynamic forces as compared to stainless steel.