Well-tempered, available in a wide variety of designs.

In the long products sector, the steel produced in steelworks is usually cast into ingots or billets. In order to convert these original forms of steel into shapes that can be used by customers and with appropriate dimensions and technological properties, the steel is usually hot-formed at temperatures between 800 and 1,150 °C. The high temperatures ensure low resistance during plastic forming of the steel and at the same time make for permanent crystal formation without hardening of the material. Hot-formed bar steel is usually produced by (longitudinal) rolling and forging.

Our standard delivery and stock program for hot-rolled products includes round, flat and square bars as well as semi-finished products for forging in a wide variety of materials, dimensions and properties. For technical and economic reasons, hot rolling is carried out up to a diameter of approx. 330 mm – larger dimensions are available as forged bar steel. While hot-rolled bar steel has a typical blue-rolled or scaled surface, forged bar steel is usually supplied with a re-turned or coarsely peeled surface to ensure adherence to narrow tolerances.

A special feature of our product range in the area of rolled and forged bar steel is that we stock material with acceptance test certificate 3.2 from the most diverse classification societies (including DNV GL, ABS and TÜV). The corresponding approvals allow us to stamp fixed lengths, which we have sawn from this acceptance material, in accordance with the classification.