SBQ STEEL BLOG

Check out our latest video to learn how we deliver unique value for our customers when they need solutions above and beyond typical long-length bar and tube products.

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The end result benefits TimkenSteel, the communities we serve and the environment.

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TimkenSteel continues to lead the industry with our technology and our dedicated team of experts who drive it. Now, we’re taking our knowledge of clean, high-strength, high-toughness steels to an international consortium focused on reducing weight in the next generation of vehicles.

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TimkenSteel's Practical Data for Metallurgists guide has gone mobile!

Our Practical Data for Metallurgists guide has served as an industry standard since its introduction in 1953. And now, we’ve created an easy way to get information you need from the guide, in the palm of your hand, from your mobile device.

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The Tryon Peak facility leverages the core competencies of TimkenSteel’s business. The plant brings value to the supply chain for customers, combining full-length bar and seamless mechanical tubing with precision-cutting capabilities.

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The St. Clair Plant in Eaton, Ohio, is a lean machine.

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The Faircrest Steel Plant began operations in 1985 after an extensive study of the company’s steel business and steelmaking technologies.

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TimkenSteel Material Services (TMS) in Houston joined the company’s family in 2008, when The Timken Company bought the assets of Boring Specialties Inc., to create a wholly owned subsidiary known as Timken Boring Specialties.

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In 1929, we were growing. We opened our second facility, the Gambrinus Steel Plant, a free-standing piercing mill to replace the original piercing operation, also in Canton. 

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The heat is on – literally – for two of TimkenSteel's newest Endurance steels. The first-ever production heats of these ultra-high-strength, high-toughness grades were melted this week at the Faircrest Steel Plant in Canton, Ohio.

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TimkenSteel's Harrison Steel Plant is the company's longest-operating steel manufacturing facility. It began operation in 1917, when steel business president H.H. Timken saw a need for better control of the supply of steel to manufacture bearings.

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For decades, the steel industry has relied on reduction ratio as a common measure of center soundness in steel bars, or the shrinkage porosity left over from casting.

See why we believe the industry standard should move away from reduction ratio and toward ultrasonic testing to guarantee a bar product's level of soundness.

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Launched eight years ago, VacTec steel is an economical line of alloy steels designed specifically for vacuum carburizing heat treatments. It offers greater performance and more desirable properties at a lower cost than other competing carburizing steel grades.

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Watch our new bar peeler take oxidized steel and give it a shiny finish. The bar peeler provides products tighter tolerances on the outside diameter. It particularly benefits industrial, energy and distribution customers.

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Whether it’s small bars for automotive components or large bars for the oil and gas industry, our focus is on SBQ alloy steel. We manufacture more than 450 grades of high-performance alloy, micro-alloy and carbon steel.

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Manufacturing is all about focusing on safety, quality and productivity. Carolee Vanicek, director of tube manufacturing at TimkenSteel, shares why process improvement and optimization underlies everything we do.

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Gear life depends on many factors and steel cleanness is a critical one. TimkenSteel has a century of experience producing clean steel for the gear industry. We continually develop and test our materials, building in-depth knowledge about product and material characteristics that affect gear life. This is an example of how we work with customers to tackle their challenges and improve gear performance.

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Ladle refining operators control temperature to produce clean alloy steel. But just how hot is 175 tons of molten steel? Watch as we explore that question with Jim Henline, a ladle refining operator at Faircrest Steel Plant.

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We have a century of experience producing clean steel for the gear industry and other demanding applications worldwide. Learn more about how clean steel improves gear performance.

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To make a finished ring gear for a transmission, our team begins with steel tubing, cuts it into rings and then machines teeth into it. Our customers then machine the component again to create the final gear with an expensive tool called a “broach.” The longer the broach’s life, the lower the manufacturing costs for the customer. TimkenSteel Technologist Mike Burnett gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the sophisticated engineering and perpetual innovation that reduced broaching costs for one customer by 67 percent.

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