Carbon Steel
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We supply high-quality carbon steel products that meet the demands of various industries, including construction, automotive, oil & gas, and manufacturing. Our carbon steel is available in various grades, thicknesses, and forms to suit your specific project needs. With excellent mechanical properties, durability, and cost-effectiveness, carbon steel is the go-to material for a wide range of applications.
Carbon Steel Specifications
We offer a wide variety of carbon steel products, each manufactured to meet the highest quality standards
Product Form
Available Grades & Size
| Grades Available | A36, A105, 1045, 1060, and more |
| Forms | Sheets, plates, pipes, tubes, and coils |
| Thicknesses | Ranges from 0.5mm to 200mm, depending on the product |
| Surface Finishes | Hot-rolled, cold-rolled, galvanized, or pickled & oiled |
| Custom Sizes | Available upon request |
Hot Rolled and Cold Rolled Carbon Steel Detailed Size
| Products | Thickness | Width | length / Inner Diameter |
| Hot Rolled Coils | 2.5-10.0mm | 610-2000mm | customer's requirement / 610mm |
| Hot Rolled Strips | 2.5-10.0mm | 16.0-600mm | customer's requirement |
| Hot Rolled Sheets | 1.2-25mm | 600-3000mm | 2000-12000mm |
| Hot Rolled Heavy Plates | 6.0-100mm | 1500-3500mm | 6000-18000mm |
| Hot Rolled Ship Plates | 6.0-100mm | 1500-3500mm | 6000-18000mm |
| Cold Rolled Coils | 0.3-6.0mm | 610-2000mm | customer's requirement / 508mm or 610mm |
| Cold Rolled Strips | 0.1-3.0mm | 4.0-600mm | customer's requirement |
| Cold Rolled Sheets | 0.2mm-4.0mm | 600mm-2000mm | 2000mm-6000mm |
Why Choose Our Carbon Steel?
Our carbon steel products are engineered for maximum strength and durability, making them perfect for structural applications, machinery, and tools. Whether you need steel for heavy-duty construction or high-stress environments, our carbon steel provides outstanding performance over time.
Carbon steel is a versatile material used across a broad spectrum of industries. Available in various grades such as A36, A105, 1045, 1060, and more, it is ideal for making construction beams, pipelines, automotive parts, and machinery. Its flexibility allows for easy forming, welding, and machining.
Carbon steel is known for its affordability without compromising on quality. Its lower production costs make it an economical choice for large-scale projects, providing the performance and longevity you need while staying within budget.
We offer carbon steel in a wide variety of grades and forms, including sheets, plates, pipes, bars, and coils. This ensures you can find the right product for your project, whether you need steel for a heavy-duty industrial application or a smaller-scale project.
We understand that each project has unique needs. That's why we offer carbon steel products in custom sizes, grades, and finishes. From cut-to-size sheets to specific thicknesses and grades, we can provide tailor-made solutions to match your project specifications.
What is Carbon Steel?
Carbon steel or plain-carbon steel is an alloy consisting primarily of iron and carbon, with carbon content typically ranging from 0.05% to 2.1% by weight. It contains a relatively small amount of other elements, such as silicon, manganese, phosphorus, and sulfur, which may be present in trace amounts. The carbon content in carbon steel determines its mechanical properties and can be categorized into three main types: low-carbon steel (0.02% to 0.3% carbon), medium-carbon steel (0.3% to 0.6% carbon), and high-carbon steel (0.6% to 2% carbon).
This material is distinguished from other steel types, such as stainless steel, carbon steel does not contain significant amounts of other alloying elements such as chromium, nickel, or molybdenum. This simplicity in composition makes carbon steel a popular and cost-effective choice for a wide range of industrial and commercial applications.
Performance Advantages of Carbon Steel
High Tensile Strength
Carbon steel offers excellent tensile strength, particularly as the carbon content increases. This makes it ideal for structural applications, where materials need to bear heavy loads without deforming.
Cost-Effectiveness
Compared to other steel types, carbon steel is relatively inexpensive to produce and purchase, making it an economical choice for large-scale projects without sacrificing performance.
Versatility
With its range of grades and properties, carbon steel is highly versatile. It can be shaped into sheets, pipes, bars, rods, and other forms to suit various industrial and commercial needs. Its machinability and formability also make it easy to work with during fabrication processes.
Durability and Wear Resistance
High-carbon steel, in particular, is extremely hard and wear-resistant. This makes it perfect for tools and components that undergo high levels of stress or friction, such as cutting tools, springs, and wires.
Weldability and Machinability
Low-carbon steel (mild steel) is highly weldable and machinable, making it a favorite for construction projects. It can be easily shaped, welded, and cut without sacrificing strength, reducing fabrication time and labor costs.
Excellent Heat Treatability
Carbon steel can be heat-treated to improve its mechanical properties. By processes such as annealing, quenching, and tempering, manufacturers can enhance its hardness, ductility, and toughness.
Applications of Carbon Steel
Carbon steel's versatility makes it essential in a wide range of industries
Construction
Used for structural beams, reinforcements, and framing due to its high strength and durability
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Automotive
Essential for manufacturing body panels, chassis components, and engine parts
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Oil & Gas
Carbon steel is crucial for pipelines, pressure vessels, and storage tanks due to its strength and resistance to stress
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Manufacturing
Ideal for machinery components, tools, and equipment.
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Agriculture
Carbon steel is used for farm equipment, machinery, and storage solutions
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Types of Carbon Steel
Choose the right carbon steel for your applications
Carbon Steel Categories Based on Carbon Content
Low-Carbon Steel (Mild Steel)
Carbon Content: 0.05% to 0.25%
Characteristics: Soft, highly malleable, easy to machine, and weld. Widely used in construction, automotive, and general engineering applications.
Medium-Carbon Steel
Carbon Content: 0.25% to 0.60%
Characteristics: Stronger and harder than low-carbon steel, with better wear resistance. Suitable for manufacturing gears, axles, and machinery parts.
High-Carbon Steel
Carbon Content: 0.60% to 2.1%
Characteristics: Very hard, brittle, and less ductile. High-carbon steel is typically used for cutting tools, springs, and high-strength wires.
Each type offers distinct mechanical properties, allowing it to serve a variety of applications based on its performance requirements.
Carbon Steel Categories Based on Usage
Carbon Structural Steel
Carbon structural steel is a type of carbon steel with a carbon content of about 0.05% to 0.70% (some can be as high as 0.90%), mainly used for manufacturing engineering components and mechanical parts. Based on its quality and use, carbon structural steel can be classified into two categories: Plain carbon structural steel and high-quality carbon structural steel.
- Plain carbon structural steel
This contains more impurities, is lower in price, and is mostly used in applications where performance requirements are not high. Its carbon content is typically below 0.30%, and the manganese content does not exceed 0.80%. It has low strength but good plasticity, toughness, and cold deformation performance.
- High-quality carbon structural steel
This type of steel is purer, with fewer impurities and better mechanical properties. It can be used after heat treatment. Based on its manganese content, it can be divided into two groups: ordinary manganese content (less than 0.80%) and higher manganese content (0.80% to 1.20%).
Performance and Application
Carbon structural steel has good overall mechanical properties and is widely used in railways, bridges, various construction projects, and the manufacture of various metal components that bear static loads. It is also used for unimportant mechanical parts that do not require heat treatment, as well as for general welded parts.
Carbon Tool Steel
Carbon tool steel is mainly used for making cutting tools, molds, and measuring tools. Its carbon content is usually between 0.65% and 1.35%. According to different uses, carbon tool steel can be divided into carbon cutting tool steel, carbon mold steel, and carbon measuring tool steel.
Performance and Application
Carbon tool steel has good processability, low cost, and is easy to forge and cut. Its hardness, wear resistance, and red hardness (the ability to maintain hardness when exposed to heat during work) are all excellent. It is suitable for making tools that are small in size, simple in shape, operate at low cutting speeds, have small feed amounts, and work at low temperatures.
Common carbon tool steel grades include T7, T8, T10, and T12. Each grade is suited to different tool-making needs due to variations in carbon content and heat treatment performance.
Free-Cutting Structural Steel
Free-cutting structural steel is a type of steel to which elements like sulfur, lead, tellurium, or bismuth are added to make the steel more brittle and improve its cutting performance. These elements help the steel break into chips more easily during cutting, which increases cutting speed and extends tool life.
Classification and Application
Free-cutting structural steel can be divided into several types based on the added elements and their content, such as sulfur-added free-cutting steel, sulfur-phosphorus-added free-cutting steel, and lead-added free-cutting steel. It has a wide range of applications and is often used to manufacture various machine and instrument parts that do not require high mechanical properties, such as bolts, nuts, pins, shafts, pipe joints, etc. These parts require good cutting performance during the manufacturing process to ensure efficiency and precision.
carbon structural steel, carbon tool steel, and free-cutting structural steel each have unique performance characteristics and application areas. In practical applications, the appropriate type of carbon steel should be selected according to specific needs and working conditions.
services we offer
Our large product inventory can be custom-formatted and sized for your exact project specifications
Wide Range of Grades and Sizes
We provide various grades and sizes of carbon steel to cater to the diverse needs of different industries.
Customization Options
Our products can be customized based on your specific requirements, including thickness, width, surface finish, and coil length.
High-Quality Assurance
We offer third-party testing services to ensure that you receive only the highest quality products.
Fast and Reliable Delivery
With a large inventory, we can quickly respond to customer demands and ensure prompt delivery.
How is Carbon Steel Manufactured?
Carbon steel manufacturing involves several key processes, all of which play a critical role in determining the steel's final properties and performance. Here's a breakdown of the key stages in carbon steel production:
1. Raw Materials and Ironmaking
2. Steelmaking
3. Refining and Casting
4. Rolling and Shaping
5. Heat Treatment
6. Quality inspection and packaging
Raw Materials and Ironmaking
The production of carbon steel starts with the extraction of iron ore, which is one of the primary raw materials. The iron ore is smelted in a blast furnace, where it is heated with coke (a form of carbon) and limestone to produce molten iron. During this process, impurities are removed, and carbon is added.
Steelmaking
Molten iron from the blast furnace is then transferred to a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) or an electric arc furnace (EAF), where it is mixed with scrap steel. Oxygen is blown through the molten iron to reduce the carbon content to the desired level. Alloying elements, such as manganese or silicon, may also be added at this stage, depending on the specific grade of carbon steel being produced.
Refining and Casting
After steelmaking, the molten steel is further refined to ensure that impurities are minimized, and the composition meets the required specifications. Once the steel has been refined, it is cast into semi-finished shapes, such as slabs, billets, or blooms, using a process known as continuous casting.
Rolling and Shaping
The semi-finished steel is then hot-rolled or cold-rolled into its final shape, such as sheets, plates, coils, bars, or pipes. Hot rolling is done at high temperatures, making the steel easier to form, while cold rolling is done at room temperature to improve surface finish and dimensional accuracy.
Heat Treatment
Heat treatment processes, such as annealing, normalizing, quenching, and tempering, are used to alter the microstructure of carbon steel, enhancing its mechanical properties like hardness, ductility, and toughness. Heat treatment is crucial for producing carbon steel with the desired performance characteristics for specific applications.
Quality inspection and packaging
Our carbon steel products undergo strict inspections for dimensional accuracy, surface quality, and mechanical properties, with optional third-party testing, and are packaged securely using corrosion-resistant materials, custom packaging solutions such as bundles or crates, and clear labeling to ensure safe transit and easy identification.
Carbon Steel vs. Other Steel Types
Carbon Steel vs. Stainless Steel
Carbon Steel
Contains primarily carbon and iron, with little to no alloying elements. Known for its strength, affordability, and wide availability.
Stainless Steel
Contains significant amounts of chromium (10.5% or more) for corrosion resistance. More expensive but ideal for applications where rust resistance is critical (e.g., food processing, medical devices).
Carbon Steel vs. Alloy Steel
Carbon Steel
Primarily composed of iron and carbon, with few other elements.
Alloy Steel
Contains additional alloying elements such as nickel, chromium, or molybdenum, which provide enhanced strength, toughness, or resistance to corrosion.
Quality Assurance and Certifications
At Tieyao steel company, quality is our top priority. Our carbon steel products are produced to meet industry standards and undergo strict quality control processes to ensure reliability and performance.
Material Testing
Available upon request, including mechanical properties and chemical composition analysis.
Third-Party Inspections
We offer third-party inspection services to ensure compliance with project specifications.
Comply with standards
All products comply with ASTM, ASME, and other industry-specific standards.
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Henan Tieyao Trading Co., Ltd., established in 2005, is one of China's leading steel and stainless steel suppliers. We are dedicated to the processing, sales, and service of stainless steel and innovative precision metal materials. With more than ten years of experience in providing customized solutions for carbon steel and stainless steel strips, foils, and sheets, we have become a trusted partner in the industry.
Tieyao Steel company is committed to providing internationally leading high-strength, high-corrosion-resistant, and high-nitrogen steel and stainless steel products, covering austenitic stainless steel, ferritic stainless steel, martensitic stainless steel, duplex stainless steel, special alloys, and nickel-chromium alloys. We offer a wide variety of products, including different grades and specifications of stainless steel, precision alloys, high-temperature alloys, and special steels in the form of wires, tubes, bars, strips, and profiles.
Products are widely used in high-end manufacturing fields such as aerospace, aviation, petroleum, marine, shipbuilding, power plants, heavy machinery, instruments, medical devices, chemicals, automotive, and electronics. In addition to having a significant presence in the domestic market, our products are also exported to Europe, Germany, Japan, South Korea, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and other countries and regions. We are dedicated to providing comprehensive, cost-effective customized material solutions to ensure our products meet the high standards and diverse needs of our customers.
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