Metals Learning Center - Page 4

Buying metal such as stainless steel or aluminum to use in manufacturing your products is a major purchase. Coil used to stamp parts for automotive applications can cost anywhere from few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars or more! The quality of that material and the company you buy it ... Continue Reading

Corrosion is a natural phenomenon that affects nearly all metal objects we use in our everyday lives. Automobiles, aircraft, medical instruments, buildings, infrastructure, appliances, and energy distribution systems are all comprised of metal, and thus all of them can corrode. We’ve all had that ... Continue Reading

A Brief History of Stainless Steel The birth of steel goes back about 4000 years when iron-based weapons began to take the place of bronze due to their increased strengths. For thousands of years, the basis of steel was used without really knowing why it was better than its alternatives. Big brea... Continue Reading

Medical tubing is an essential component in an ever-expanding array of delivery systems and related devices used in minimally invasive surgical procedures. Round or flat stainless steel wire is often used to braid-reinforce tubing for applications that require torque transmission, burst strength, ... Continue Reading

Flat metal products are typically specified to a set of mechanical properties. Ultimate tensile strength, 0.2% offset yield strength, percent elongation, and hardness are applied representations of how the building blocks of a given material behave in response to an applied load. Tensile, yield, and... Continue Reading