SBQ STEEL BLOG

TimkenSteel’s Forged-Rolled process enables the customer to receive certified, sound centered bars at reduction ratios less than 3:1.

Read More

TimkenSteel developed a set of cleanness measurements to provide the full picture of the oxide inclusion population in steel.

Read More

Like many of our innovations, TimkenSteel’s new process for producing high-pressure tubing was inspired by the needs of a customer.

Read More

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

 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

Think of our 175-ton ladles as giant recycling bins.

Read More

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

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.

Read More

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

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

It’s like a pencil sharpener, only for steel. For our customers, the benefit is a tighter tolerance on the bar's outside diameter.

Read More

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.

Read More

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.

Read More

TimkenSteel optimizes the supply chain for its automotive customers by controlling quality and consistency at every step. Customers avoid the capital investment needed to turn steel bars and tubes into precision components by relying on TimkenSteel to perform those operations to whatever degree of completion they require, from cut tubes to semi-finished parts.

Read More

Bottom line: instead of making a better broaching tool, we set out to make steel that was easier to cut, but just as strong.

Read More

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the first heat at our jumbo bloom vertical caster. The caster team at Faircrest Steel Plant has achieved many significant project milestones over the last year.

Read More

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.

Read More

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.

Read More

In a word, stress! The degree to which special bar quality (SBQ) steels are truly “special” largely depends on how much stress it can handle. Not all SBQ steel is created equally, and only a select few manufacturers can produce it for the most demanding applications.

Read More

The high cost of the materials that can endure the harsh conditions of drilling and completing oil and gas wells at extreme depths limits exploration at ultra-deep levels. TimkenSteel sales engineers worked closely with Energy Alloys and their customer to understand the challenge of gaining cost efficiency while not sacrificing performance to enable deeper completions.

Read More