Cold Rolled Profiles

Cold rolled sec­tions are pro­duced by form­ing round wire rod, which can have a max­i­mum diam­e­ter of 1”, by a con­tin­u­ous rolling process at ambi­ent temperature. The resulting profiles can fit within a maximum circumscribed circle diameter of 2 inches. Cold rolling is a very effi­cient man­u­fac­tur­ing process which has been devel­oped mainly for small sec­tions. Com­pared to hot rolling, cold rolling offers some con­sid­er­able advan­tages. Excel­lent sur­face fin­ish, tight tol­er­ances and the pos­si­bil­ity to pro­duce very small pro­duc­tion lots are the most obvi­ous. Cold rolling pro­vides the abil­ity to change the mechan­i­cal prop­er­ties of the mate­r­ial and pro­duces cer­tain use­ful com­bi­na­tions of hard­ness, strength, stiff­ness and duc­til­ity. This is com­pleted by selec­tive annealing. Mon­tanstahl has placed its strate­gic cold rolling focus on high alloyed and stain­less steel. The sec­tions can be sup­plied either as bars in fixed lengths up to 19’ –0/+8” or can be recoiled. The bun­dles can be cut to length with a tol­er­ance of +/- 1/2”. Typical production quantities of cold-rolled carbon steel profiles start at 1,102 lbs, while stainless-steel cold-rolled profiles can start at 220 lbs. Cold rolled stain­less steel sec­tions are used for watch com­po­nents, food pro­cess­ing, tex­tile, pulp and paper indus­try as well as petro­chem­i­cal and nau­ti­cal components.