Hot rolled Special Steel Strip

Tata Steel Narrow Strip Mill produces hot rolled narrow strip products manufactured to exacting specifications for industries throughout the world.

Narrow Strip produces precision strip products tailored to specific needs of customers in many market sectors. Our range of steel grades from low carbon and free-cutting steels to high carbon, alloy and stainless steels offer varying strength, formability, durability and hardness properties to suit the requirements of varying end applications.

Our high-quality strip steels are used to manufacture diverse components from seat belt mechanisms to ice axes and from industrial needles to plough and saw backing blades. It is used for cold rolling, presswork, roll forming and engineering industries. The markets we serve include:

Product designers in the automotive, agricultural, mining and many other sectors have already realized the performance benefits and long-term cost savings offered by designing narrow steel strip into their components. Many of these components are used in safety critical and highly specialized applications, which require parts manufactured to extremely tight tolerances even exceeding ASTM specifications.

Narrow Strip has the capability to manufacture steel to meet such stringent specifications. Tight gauge tolerances in the mill result in excellent repeatable performance in component manufacture, with consistent dimensions for highly specific applications.

Our hot rolled strip can be produced in tailor-made sizes to fit the requirements of your product design, whether it’s a television frame or a surgical blade. Product performance can be customized too, so that the strength, formability and hardness of the steel are matched to the demands of your application.

Our narrow steel strip products include:

• Alloy grades – additions like Manganese, Chromium, Vanadium, Nickel, Silicon, and Tungsten create specific properties for different applications.
  Typical Applications: Cutting saws, knives, lock parts, golf club shafts, clutch components.
• Boron grades – addition of Boron gives excellent hardenability. Q&T toughening offers improved weldability and cold formability.
  Typical Applications: Shovels, harrow discs, mower blades, agricultural knives, chain side plates
• Free-cutting steels – highly machinable low carbon steels with controlled hardness and ductility.
  Typical Applications: Keys, contact boards, parts requiring rapid metal removal
• High-strength, low alloy grades (HSLA) – HYPRESS® steels offer excellent strength to weight ratios and good formability and weldability.
  Typical Applications: Seat-reclining mechanisms, scaffold clips, seat slides, seat-belt pre-tensioners, pipe couplings
• Medium to High carbon grades – offered with a wide range of yield and tensile strengths. Higher carbon levels give greater hardness and abrasion resistance.
  Typical Applications: Garden tools, toe caps, washers, machetes, plane blades, files and cutting tools, ice skate blades
• Stainless steels – Martensitic, ferritic and austensitic grades are offered with excellent hardness and corrosion resistance.
  Typical Applications: Chemical filters, food-processing knives, cutlery, scissors, surgical and razor blades.

Ongoing research, development and investment ensure that we continue to lead the way in steel advances, enabling us to offer cutting-edge products that keep pace with the very latest developments in your industry.

For more information on these products and their uses, please contact us using the following email address: TSIA_NarrowStrip@tatasteel.com