St. Clair Plant: Expanding our value-added portfolio by TimkenSteel | February 25, 2019 | Categories: Industrial Steel, Steel Industry Trends, Steel News 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. Read More
Recognition is great, but it's the (TimkenSteel) experience that matters by Elaine Russell Reolfi | October 10, 2018 | Categories: Corporate, Marketing, Steel News When TimkenSteel became an independent company in 2014, our reputation for creating some of the cleanest and best steels in the world was well established. We have the only focused special bar quality steel technology center in North America and we had invested millions of dollars in manufacturing assets that were the envy of the industry. Read More
Advanced Quench-and-Temper Facility Makes Its Mark with Process Efficiency by TimkenSteel | April 26, 2018 | Categories: Steel Industry Trends, Steel News Our $40-million AQTF facility is the newest of our investments, and enhances our offering of special bar quality steel bar and seamless mechanical tubing for the harshest applications, like sour service wells requiring corrosion-resistant steels in the energy industry. Read More
TimkenSteel adds expertise to Lightweight Forging Initiative by Mike Burnett | February 23, 2018 | Categories: Automotive, Cleanness Analysis, Energy, Industrial Steel, Steel Grades, Steel Industry Trends, Steel News 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. Read More
New Year, New Tool! TimkenSteel Launches Practical Data for Metallurgists Cloud-based App by TimkenSteel | January 4, 2018 | Categories: Industrial Steel, Steel Industry Trends, Steel News 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. Read More
Made in America for 100 years: TimkenSteel's Tryon Peak Plant by TimkenSteel | December 27, 2017 | Categories: Corporate, Steel News, Steel History, Industrial Steel 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. Read More
Made in America for 100 Years: TimkenSteel's St. Clair Plant by TimkenSteel | December 27, 2017 | Categories: Steel News, Steel History, Corporate, Industrial Steel The St. Clair Plant in Eaton, Ohio, is a lean machine. Read More
Made in America for 100 years: TimkenSteel's Faircrest Steel Plant by TimkenSteel | December 22, 2017 | Categories: Steel News, Steel History, Corporate, Industrial Steel The Faircrest Steel Plant began operations in 1985 after an extensive study of the company’s steel business and steelmaking technologies. Read More
Made in America for 100 Years: TimkenSteel Material Services by TimkenSteel | December 15, 2017 | Categories: Steel News, Steel History, Corporate, Industrial Steel 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. Read More
Made in America for 100 Years: TimkenSteel's Gambrinus Steel Plant by TimkenSteel | December 13, 2017 | Categories: Steel News, Steel History, Corporate, Industrial Steel 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. Read More
New Endurance grades begin production by TimkenSteel | December 8, 2017 | Categories: Steel News, Steel Industry Trends, Industrial Steel, Steel Grades, Automotive, Cleanness Analysis, Energy 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. Read More
Made in America for 100 years: TimkenSteel's Harrison Steel Plant by TimkenSteel | December 6, 2017 | Categories: Steel News, Steel History, Corporate, Industrial Steel 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. Read More
Encouraging a new industry standard by TimkenSteel | April 11, 2017 | Categories: Automotive, Cleanness Analysis, Energy, Industrial Steel, Steel Grades, Steel Industry Trends, Steel News 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. Read More
New Generation of Engineers are Inventing the Future of Clean Steel by TimkenSteel | November 16, 2016 | Categories: Corporate, Steel News, Steel Industry Trends At TimkenSteel, the newest generation of engineers are busy creating clean steels for today and the future. Read More
Behind the Scenes: Hot Compression Test by John Murza | September 20, 2016 | Categories: Cleanness Analysis, Steel Industry Trends, Steel News TimkenSteel utilizes the hot compression test along with other tests to provide the full picture of the oxide inclusion population in steel. Read More
Forged-Rolled Process for Large Bar Soundness by TimkenSteel | August 22, 2016 | Categories: Cleanness Analysis, Steel Industry Trends, Steel News TimkenSteel’s Forged-Rolled process enables the customer to receive certified, sound centered bars at reduction ratios less than 3:1. Read More
Ultrapremium technology born from need to measure steel cleanness by TimkenSteel | July 18, 2016 | Categories: Cleanness Analysis, Steel Industry Trends, Steel News TimkenSteel developed a set of cleanness measurements to provide the full picture of the oxide inclusion population in steel. Read More
Innovative Thinking Leads to New Process for High-Pressure Tubing by TimkenSteel | June 29, 2016 | Categories: Steel Grades, Steel Industry Trends, Steel News Like many of our innovations, TimkenSteel’s new process for producing high-pressure tubing was inspired by the needs of a customer. Read More
Driving Customer Success with VacTec Steel by Patrick Anderson | May 25, 2016 | Categories: Industrial Steel, Steel Grades, Steel News 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. Read More
Steady Hands Lift the Ladle at the Jumbo Bloom Vertical Caster by TimkenSteel | May 4, 2016 | Categories: Steel Industry Trends, Steel News Here’s what it takes to lift 350,000 pounds of molten steel five stories at Faircrest Steel Plant's jumbo bloom vertical caster. Read More