Getting Most Comprehensive Steel Information

The steel industry has hundreds of years history all over the world, following the quick development of high-tech, steel have divided into all kinds of styles to satisfy different demands for almost industry. Whatever China Steel or other countries steel suppliers, having formed a relatively mature industry chain. The below we will provide you some popular steel information to help you learn the latest steel products.

Firstly, I recommend you to know angle iron better. Commonly, angle iron is known as on both sides perpendicular to each other into a corner of the bar of steel. And it is divided into equal angles and unequal angles. According to the different structure needs, angle iron can compose of a variety of different force components, and also can be used for connections between the components. Certainly, angle iron is widely used in different building structures and engineering structures such as beams, bridges, transmission towers, hoisting and conveying machinery, ships, industrial furnace, reaction tower, container frame and warehouse shelves, etc. In addition, angle iron belongs to a simple section of carbon structural steel, which is mainly used for metal components and framework of the plant.

Secondly, there is a kind of vastly using steel----steel channel, which is a cross-section of the groove-shaped strip of steel. According to different categories, steel channel is divided into different styles, for example, via the different shape, it can be divided into four kinds: Cold equilateral channel, ranging from cold-formed side channel cold-formed Lipped Channels, cold-formed outer edge channel. And the applying of steel channel is widely, generally, it mainly used for building structure, vehicle manufacturers and other industrial structure, specially, steel channel can be used in conjunction with h beam.

Thirdly, Prepainted Steel is a special steel, which is made from cold rolled steel and galvanized steel with surface chemical treatment after coating or composite organic film, then bake curing. Therefore, prepainted steel not only owns the performance of steel material high mechanical strength and easy to shape, it also has good decorative coating materials and corrosion resistance. And it respected as today’s world new materials and get more and more wide using. Usually, prepainted steel is used in building, appliances, electrical and mechanical transport, indoor decoration, office furniture and other industries.

Finally, ERW Pipe just is Electric Resistance Welding, which is different from ordinary pipe welding process, and erw pipe is is made ​​by the parent material of the strip body melting, mechanical strength than the average pipe. Usually, ERW said resistance welding, resistance welding has high production efficiency, low cost, material saving, easy automation features, it is widely used in various industrial sectors of the aviation, aerospace, energy, electronics, automotive, light is important welding processa. And ERW Pipe is also used to transport oil, natural gas, to meet the high and low voltage requirements of the conveying pipe in the world sector accounts for a pivotal position.

Via the above some related steel product instruction, we can know that steel industry plays so important role in whole industry development. Although, now steel prices have great difference from before, the quality of steel is getting better, and all sorts of special steel products can satisfy more range demands.

Packing of Galvanized Steel coil

One of my old customer said that a galvanized steel coil mill made a very simple package of the goods, and when arrived, customer opened the package and found that the surface of coils are all wet, or even water droplets. This will affect the normal use of galvanized roll. It’s really terrible. Below are some notes, according to my experience, I would like to share with everyone refer to the package of the galvanized rolls. 

Galvanized steel coil packaging are divided into horizontal packaging and vertical packaging. The main difference lies in the vertical packaging with a wooden tray or iron under it, in order to make the reinforcement of galvanized coils in containers more solid. Of course, horizontal packing is also safety, because when loaded into containers, it will be reinforced by different ways. No matter horizontal or vertical, the packing of roll is same.

One: Waterproof paper. Waterproof paper is wrapped in the surface of a galvanized roll. Its main function is to prevent galvanized volume moisture, and avoid water vapor into the volume, then influence of hot dip galvanized coil surface. Such as zinc oxide layer when water vapor, can appear on the zinc spend turned white, affect beauty and using. This layer is necessary for the waterproof.

Two: Galvanized steel  layer. It’s out of waterproof paper. During the transportation progress, it’s very easy to hit. This layer is to prevent the scratch on the surface.

Three: Edge Protection layer.  It is on the both sides of the roll, and made of iron. It’s mainly to protect the edge of galvanized roll. It’s very important, if the edge of galvanized steel coil wasn’t protected, might affect the deep processing, and even damage the machine.

Four: Straps. It is used to fix the waterproof paper and galvanized iron packaging, avoid the iron fall off. For galvanized roll with the width of 1000mm to 1500mm, it should be 8 straps and transverse 4 pieces, vertical 4 pieces. It’s the best way to tighten the rolls. S

Five: Tags/Marks. Mill tags will be stick on every coils outside the packages. Including: name of commodity, grade, gross weight, net weight, roll number, and information of the mill, supplier information, etc. It’s will be helpful for clients to find the right rolls against the packing list.

Above all is the detailed info for the packing, and hopefully it will be helpful for you to choose suppliers for galvanized steel coils. Indeed, whatever you choose the galvanized steel coil or galvanized steel sheet, these experiences above can be noticed, as long as you do the packaging services better, customers can satisfy with our steel products and steel prices better.

Welded Mild Steel Pipe exported to Yangon, Myanmar

After communicated with our buyer for long time, offered many steel prices of diverse steel products and provided many steel news in domestic and overseas market, the buyer made an order of Welded Mild Steel Pipe (15.875*1.5875*6000mm 28.575*1.5875*6000mm) finally, which exported to Yangon, Myanmar. Besides I accompanied the buyer to visit the factory, before got this order. And he was very satisfied with it, especially the new efficient production facility and the good quality material in the factory.

Signed with the sale contract and received the advanced payment, we purchased the steel pipe products from the factory. Before that, we had communicated with the workers in the factory, and informed them the detailed information about this order to guarantee the quality and the delivery time. In the productive process, our buyer also inspected the quality. Meanwhile we started to arrange the shipment matters according to the date of manufacture.

The products had been inspected by SGS, before the goods were shipped. Because the sailing date from Tianjin Port to Yangon is about 15days. The shipping owner made us to guarantee the documents can be ready as soon as the vessel arrived at the destination to arrange customs clearance on time in order to avoid demurrage. Unfortunately the final buyer delayed clearance because of kinds of urgent events. Meanwhile the shipping owner would loss 10,000 USD per day. At that time, I called our buyer and final buyer to resolve this matter successfully.

So it is necessary for us to communicate with our buyer anytime. After this, we have established long-time relationship with our buyer. And then we can provide more steel information like steel pipe prices, latest steel prices, etc. In fact, as long as in the business, the two sides can maintain the principle of good faith, and they can get long-term development in cooperation between each other. Therefore, we hope to serve our customers, there is our site---SteelFromChina.com which can provide you the all sorts of steel news, different steel style and steel prices can be provided in it. We hope, not only Yangon and Myanmar, there will be more countries that can contact with us and build the long-term cooperation relationship.

Knowing Detail Features of Different Steel Products

Following the development of industrial revolution and advanced technology, the steel area is being rapid advances, all kind of new technologies are used in steel products to improve the features of steel. Today's construction industry has been rapid progress, the demand of steel suppliers, a higher demand of quality and quantity of steel products. Generally speaking, there are some differences in steel prices and features for different products, the below will give some detail instruction to the often using steel series.

According to the shape of steel, the steel products can be divided into many types, such as steel pipes, steel coil, steel sheet, etc. via the related marketing survey, we have found that Seamless Pipes are widely used different areas. It is known that Seamless Pipe is a hollow sections, peripheral joints round, square, rectangular steel. Seamless steel pipes with hollow cross-section, a large number of solid steel pipes, steel round bar used for conveying fluids compared to the same torsional strength in bending, lighter, is an economic cross-section steel, widely used in the manufacture of the structure parts and mechanical parts, such as drill pipe, automotive drive shafts, bicycle frames, and the construction using steel scaffolding.

There is another steel tube, which is called rectangular tube. The rectangular tube is a hollow square cross-section of light thin-walled steel pipe, also known as steel cold-formed profiles. It is made ​​by the Q235 hot rolled or cold rolled strip or coil for parent metal forming by cold bending after the high-frequency welding steel of square cross-section shape and size. Hot-rolled special thick-walled square tubes in addition to wall thickness of thickening, the size of the corner and edge straightness to achieve even more than the resistance welding of cold formed square tube level. And it is widely used in the manufacture of mechanical parts and engineering structures. Also commonly used for the production of conventional weapons, the barrel shells.

Because the difference of rolling temperature, rolling steel can be divided into hot rolled steel and cold rolled steel. Simply speaking, a billet in the heating, rolling through several re-trimming, corrective become steel plate, which is called hot-rolled-steel. The feature of hot rolled steel plate is low hardness, easy processing and good quality. Cold rolled steel is steel plate further rolled into a target thickness of the plate at room temperature. Comparing to hot rolled steel plate, cold rolled sheet thickness is more precise and smooth surface, beautiful and offers a variety of superior mechanical properties, especially the processing performance. And cold rolled steel is often used for cars, refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances, and industrial equipment, construction materials.

In addition to the above-mentioned steel products, there are so many featured steel, like galvanized steel, galvalume steel, prepainted steel, etc. Owing to different features, they will play a different role in related areas.

In modern steel marketing, steel prices are changing based on the economic trends, and steel suppliers are different according to region differences. In order to find the high quality steel suppliers that can provide the proper steel prices and then getting the long cooperation, the internet marking is become important, nowadays, more and more companies own their website of steel to promote their steel products and services, via these ways, for most steel demanders, they can get total information about latest steel market. 

Australian Demand for High Quality Steel Products

After about a year of studying and exploring the Australian steel market, I have the following experiences to share:

1.     Australia is a very big market, with demands for all types of Steel Products. Steel buyers put a strong emphasis on quality and the importance that steel grades from China are as close as possible or indeed exactly the same as Australian steel designations. The most popular Steel Products needed by the Australian market include: Square Tube, Seamless Pipes, Hot Rolled Steel Plate and Galvanized Steel.

2.     Most of the end-users prefer to buy from middlemen or traders. End-users do not necessarily want the hassle or risk of importing Steel Products from overseas themselves, even if the cost is much lower. This is why I tend to spend more time and effort pursuing business with steel trading companies in Australia, as they are ten times more likely to do business with us than end-users.

3.     Steel traders in Australia will get regular quotations from mills for a full size range of Steel Products every month. After that, they will send the Steel Price list to their customers, who’ll then select some they think are suitable on the market. This method of procurement seems commonplace in Australia and most of my customers request a price list of the Steel Products they need to be updated and sent out each month.

4.     The customers in Australia care more about the quality of Steel Products than the price, which is much more different from our Middle Eastern customers for example. Australian customers will always make a full investigation of the steel mill first to make sure they can get top quality Steel Products. Of course, Steel Prices are also a very important factor, that’ll never be ignored.

When you have known that the detail demand of Australian customers for steel products, you can provide them more suitable information for them including steel prices, the species of steel, etc.

Africa’s Colourful and Emerging Steel Market

As you may know, there is a good and emerging market in Africa, because the demand of Steel Products is strong for the region’s development, whilst the markets in Europe and America are already quite mature.

More and more trading companies are focusing on Africa and would like to grasp the exciting opportunity to obtain more and more market share in the shortest possible time.

The Steel Products we’ve experienced a heavy demand for in Africa range from Hot Rolled Steel Plate, Galvanized Steel Sheet and Galvanized Steel Coil to Black Welded Pipe and Square Tube or Rectangular Tube. These Steel Products are indeed a diverse mix in this market and the quantity, per type of Steel Product requested in this region, is very abundant.

No trading company dealing with the Steel Products in this industry can let this excellent opportunity pass by. It is, however, obvious that good and bad quality Steel Products are intermingled in this market.

Several months ago, we received an inquiry of 500 tons of Square Tube and Rectangular Tube (Square Tube: 25x25x0.75 --50x50x0.75mm, length 5.7m). As we have affluent experience, we tried our best to provide the best and latest steel prices based on the wall thickness tolerance +/-10%, but our customer received another price nearly 20USD/TON lower than our offer. It was clear that this rival supplier must be providing a much larger wall thickness tolerance to achieve such a low quotation. It was indeed proved that we were right, because when the customer received the Square Tube and Rectangular Tube, the wall thickness was far thinner than his request and he was not satisfied at all.

In order to avoid such problems, we always recommend our customers to carry out an SGS or BV inspection before the goods are delivered to the port. It is equally important to stipulate this in the contract you sign with your supplier, as it will push the supplier to take extra special care in ensuring the Square Tube or Rectangular Tube for example, will indeed be manufactured to the parameters agreed upon in the contract. This way it will give you better peace of mind in knowing the Steel Products you receive will be spot on.