Month: December 2012


Recently we rolled steel plate for a staircase inside the 5 Crescent Drive building in The Navy Yard located in Philadelphia.  The 205,000 square-foot, four-story facility will be designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification, the highest possible designation in the Read more…


The holidays provide opportunities and challenges for Bender/Rollers, companies that specialize in curving steel members:  angles, bars, beams, tees, tube and pipe as well as steel plate and steel sheet. The challenges include a reduced number of working days, less Read more…


With the increased use of curved steel members in construction and equipment, questions arise as to how to ship large steel loads. The maximum sizes for non-permitted loads (those where special trucking permits are not required) are as follows:  52′ Read more…


Bending steel sections can involve both curving and cambering. In the world of structural steel, camber denotes a curve in the vertical plane; sweep denotes a curve in the horizontal plane.  Steel members produced in a steel mill have at Read more…


More and more architects are designing structures that incorporate curved steel sections whether they be angles, bars, beams, channels, tees, pipe or tube.  This increased use of curved steel is the result of the combination of the fabricators’ increasing capabilities Read more…


Shipping steel members either straight or curved often requires packaging.  With certain original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) special reusable containers are designed to hold a certain number of parts securely.  Some are part of a kanban system common to companies using lean Read more…

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