TimkenSteel develops supply chain win for high-performance automotive engines by Guy Michel | January 4, 2019 | Categories: Automotive, Steel Industry Trends When an automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) needs a solution, TimkenSteel comes prepared to offer one. In the case of one customer’s new high-performance, four-cylinder engine, this effort earned TimkenSteel the title of supplier of choice for the engine’s bearing-grade steel. 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
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
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