Materials

• Micro-alloyed medium
• high carbon SBQ steel

In House Processing

• Cold draw
• Shear cut
• Stress relieve
• (JV outsource)
• Roll thread
• Phosphate and oil
• Form
• Cold form
• Warm forge - Consolidated Metal Products, Inc.
• Coatings

Outsourced Processing

• Zinc Plate
• Zinc Yellow
• E-Coat
• Geo-Met

Technology - Materials

Steel making controls

• Purchase in heat lot quantities
• Develop mill specific melting practices
• Chemical range restrictions
• Micro-alloy specifications
• Trace element controls
• Collaborate with mills on specific rolling practices
• Billet preparation
• Reheat practices
• Rolling speeds
• Rolling temperatures and cooling rates
• As-rolled mechanical properties

Technology - Processes

Cold drawing

• Both coils and cut length bars
• Mechanically de-scale
• Employ standard and proprietary practices

Cut blanks

• Shear cut to length

Stress relieve

• Proprietary practices to enhance mechanical properties
• Roll threads
• Flat die processes
• Rolled chamfers
• Part ID rolled above threads
• Metric and inch sizes
• Proprietary practices to improve fatigue life and torque tension properties

Technology - Coating

• Excellent corrosion resistance and torque tension properties
• No hydrogen embrittlement or stress corrosion cracking
• Dip/drain system designed and built to process u-bolts
• Low temperature cure to maintain part dimensional integrity
• Corrosion performance
• Phosphate and oil – 96 hours salt chamber
• New ProtecTorque™ (Painting)