Equipment manufacturers often purchase rolled steel sections–angles, bars, beams, tees, pipe and tube–that are formed to a specified radius by companies that specialize in curving metal. Especially when developing new curved parts, the process usually takes the form of an Read more…
Category: Plate Rolling
Mo
Plate Rolling
May 22, 2016
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…
Ken
Plate Rolling
February 26, 2020
As Helium (He) processing is boosted in reaction to the world’s cry for a solution to the helium shortage, new helium processing plants are going up throughout the world. The cryogenic treatment of helium uses a great deal of aluminum Read more…
George
Bending, Plate Rolling, Rolling Limitations, Structural Steel
May 22, 2016
Designers, architects, owners, engineers, structural steel fabricators – anyone who is interested in using curved steel shapes in their buildings, equipment or other structures can benefit from entering into a dialogue with companies that specialize in curving steel. While there are Read more…
Ted
Plate Rolling
May 22, 2016
When packing and shipping boxes full of rolled sheet or plate cylinders, we want to pack them hexagonally instead of square. Because that way: You fit more into each box. There’s less space between pipes, because each pipe is contacting Read more…
Kevin
Plate Rolling
May 22, 2016
Rolling steel plate is usually a rather straightforward process. When the plate has cut-outs, however, a number of concerns arise about how it will react when it is curved. When rolling over a section that has cut-outs, the plate might Read more…
Dan
Plate Rolling
May 22, 2016
Cylinders manufactured from rolled, perforated steel plate are often created for trommels to be used for many applications. Whether you are mining for gold of sifting out garbage, the basic function of a trommel is to sort out different sizes of Read more…
Kevin
Plate Rolling
May 22, 2016
Recently we were contacted by a customer for a very difficult steel plate rolling job. They required steel cone sections to be rolled for a scrubber system that was being added to a coal power plant. It is a green Read more…
George
Bending, Plate Rolling
May 22, 2016
Round steel tanks are often constructed by rolling steel plate and attaching curved steel sections as stiffeners and as mating flanges. The tanks can have welded or bolted sections and also often have dished heads on one or both ends Read more…
George
Beam Bending, Bending, Plate Rolling
May 22, 2016
Rolling beams and steel plate are processes most often used to curve metal. With the right machines, machine operators, and methods, however, the processes can also be used to straighten steel sections. In our plant today we are straightening three Read more…
