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
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
For TimkenSteel, our commitment to sustainability is where the rubber meets the road... or in this case, the recycling process by TimkenSteel | August 9, 2018 | Categories: Industrial Steel, Steel Industry Trends, Corporate, Energy The end result benefits TimkenSteel, the communities we serve and the environment. 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
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
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
Recycling Scrap Metal on Earth Day and Every Day by TimkenSteel | April 22, 2016 | Categories: Steel Industry Trends, Steel News Think of our 175-ton ladles as giant recycling bins. Read More
H.H. Timken’s quest for clean steel continues 100 years later by TimkenSteel | April 19, 2016 | Categories: Steel Industry Trends, Steel News, Steel History TimkenSteel was born out of the need for a steady supply of clean steel. The man behind that push into steel production was born 148 years ago today on April 19, 1868. Read More
TimkenSteel bar sizes from 1 inch to 16 inches by TimkenSteel | March 15, 2016 | Categories: Industrial Steel, Steel Grades 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. Read More
Where Hard Hats and Great Ideas Live by TimkenSteel | February 15, 2016 | Categories: Industrial Steel, Steel News, Steel Industry Trends 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. Read More