Mild Steel (A36)

Cold-Rolled Steel

Our cold-rolled carbon steel is our customers’ favorite material to work with by far. Straight up, cold-rolled is basically just hot-rolled steel with additional processing. Those additional processes give it a cleaner edge, better surface quality, and more exact dimensions. Cold-rolled has exceptional refinement and tends to be a little stronger and harder than hot-rolled.

Hot-Rolled Steel

Our hot rolled carbon steel is commercial mild steel, found in most industries as it offers good weldability and machinability. It’s sturdy and easy to work with. It has a scaled surface finish from the cooling process and as a result, it is free of internal stresses sometimes associated with further processing.

Hot-rolled pickled and oiled

HRP&O steel is much smoother and easier to finish than the cheaper “mill finished hot-roll” that most steel centers sell. Anyone who has ever tried to remove mill scale from some cheap angle iron will know what we’re talking about. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, HRP&O is just hot-rolled steel that is subjected to an acid bath in order to remove that previously mentioned scale. Then it has some dry oil applied to prevent rusting. Overall, it has a nicer finish.

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