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Value Added Processing

thyssenkrupp Materials NA provides a variety of value-added processing and service capabilities that can help to reduce cycle time, reduce inventory investment, and total cost. Each of our processes can be customized to meet the needs of your project or business.

To inquire or request the below value-added services or inquire about others, please contact us.

Common Processing Services

Get a head-start on your process chain and let the companies of thyssenkrupp Materials NA produce first operational configured blanks for you. Our blanking lines in coil processing facilities strategically located in the US and Mexico provide customers with carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum blanks produced to precise customer specifications. Targeted to customers in a wide array of industries, notably automotive, we are Class I Automotive rated, and offer better-than-industry standard capabilities with final blank lengths up to 186” long. Let us put our blanking expertise to work to help improve your bottom line.

Whether you need slit aluminum, copper and copper alloys, stainless steel or carbon steel, the companies of thyssenkrupp Materials NA are your best source for coil processing. Our facilities across the US house nearly 30 slitting lines to process both ferrous and nonferrous metals, while our multiple slitters located in Canada process nonferrous materials. Currently, our slitting line in Mexico is dedicated to carbon steel. Our vast array of slitting equipment allows us to process material from .005” gauge up through .195”, and up to 72” wide coils depending on the material. We also offer value-add coil processing services such as annealing, re-rolling, traverse winding and edge-conditioning, giving users in the electrical, medical, aerospace and automotive industries the products they need, delivered to their door by our robust logistics network.

Starting your production cycle with the sheet sized to your exacting specifications saves you processing time and reduces overall scrap costs. With many cut-to-length lines for aluminum and stainless steel and a specialty metals cut-to-length line for brass and copper, the companies of thyssenkrupp Materials NA are ready to provide the flat-roll processing services you need to reduce your production time. With cut-to-length processing lines strategically located across the US, we use our nationwide logistics system to deliver just-in-time to customers in wide variety of industries including automotive, medical, aerospace, appliance and electrical. We also offer customers value-added flat roll processing services such as PVC and stenciling on stainless and aluminum coils from .010” to .250” thick and 6” through 72” wide. We also offer cut-to-length processing for copper and copper alloy coils from .010” to .125” thick.

A versatile technology, abrasive water jet cutting utilizes water pressure and garnet abrasive mixture as cutting media. Waterjet cutting allows customers to receive near-net shape parts while maximizing material usage, and reducing scrap.

Waterjet cutting is an efficient production technology, especially with single part manufacturing, that provides tighter tolerances resulting in the ability to provide customers with extremely detailed parts. No heat input in the component through the cutting jet abd there is no structural changes in the material, such as increased hardness and micro fissures. High machining accuracy and surface quality at the cutting edge and no pollutants created during the cutting process.

Learn more about our quality, tolerances, and capabilities with waterjet cutting.

Custom extrusion programs allow our customers the opportunity to have mill-produced custom extrusions stocked in our warehouse facilities and delivered just-in-time, in the quantities they need. We offer precision cutting and other services, such as tumbling, for a first-stage processing-ready piece. The companies of thyssenkrupp Materials NA maintain relationships with industry-leading mills in the extrusion industry and our nationwide logistics system guarantees the material is at your door, when and where you need it.

The companies of thyssenkrupp Materials NA offer a wide range of precision cutting services for RBW, sheet and plate products for all nonferrous metals including aluminum, brass, bronze, copper and stainless steel. In the US, processing facilities across the country house multiple shears for sheet, nearly 40 straight line and contour saws for plate, capable of both standard and precision sawing tolerances on material up to 12”thick, and almost 60 bar cut-off saws, including high-speed Tsune saws that are capable of cutting tolerances as close at +/- .005”. Additionally, we offer customers value-add processing services such as grinding, chamfering and straightening. In Canada, our shearing center complements the more than 10 RBW cut-off saws located at processing facilities from Vancouver to Toronto. Our logistics system provides the support necessary to get the right product to customers in the automotive, electrical, medical and aerospace industries at their locations throughout North America.

As a leading value-added supplier to all major industries in North America, thyssenkrupp's capabilities include fabrication of standard and engineered (custom) components utilizing CNC controlled punching, bending and cutting equipment for use in the assembly of parts for the electrical industry, as well as the medical, automotive and aerospace industries. Our fabricating locations in Canada produce and deliver parts on a JIT basis to companies throughout the entire NAFTA region.

Additional Services Available

Anodizing: The electrolytic passivation process used to increase the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal parts.

Bending: The process of bending material of various sizes and lengths to meet customers specifications.

Blanchard Grinding: The process of grinding the large surfaces of plate to meet customer specifications.

Boring: The process of cutting holes in large diameter long bar that doesn't leave any solid drops, only chips, from the inside of the bar.

Centerless Grinding: The process of grinding using the outside diameter (OD) of round bars for improved tolerance, straightness, and surface quality.

Chamfering: The process of grinding the end of bars to remove edge burrs and improve performance in automatically fed turning machines.

Circle Saw Cutting: The process of using a circle saw to cut rings or circles out of plate to meet customer specifications.

CNC Machining – Router: The process of using a computer-controlled cutting device to cut material of various sizes and lengths to meet to customers specifications.

Contour Saw Shapes: The process of contour sawing shapes out of plate to meet customer specifications.

Deburring: The process of removing burrs and sharp corners from cut piece pieces, often done by hand or a vibratory tumbler, depending on the size of the product and the number of pieces.

Double Disc Grinding: The process of simultaneously grinding two sides of plate to customer specification.

Drilling: The process of drilling holes into material of various sizes and lengths to meet customers specifications.

Forming: A metal working process to forming metal to the customer's specification.

Heat Treat/Annealing: The process of applying heat to metal in order to alter mechanical or physical properties to meet customer specifications.

Honing: The process of precision machining the internal diameter (ID) of tube or pipe to provide tight tolerances and a high quality surface.

Laser Cutting: The process of using a laser to cut plate and sheet to customer specifications.

Machining: The process of using machines to form material of various sizes and lengths to customer specifications.

Miter Cutting: The process of cutting angles in plate to meet customer specifications.

Plating: The process of adding an outer coating to metal to inhibit corrosion and/or enhance appearance.

Polishing: The process of smoothing or refining the surface of a material.

Precision Saw: The process of cutting material to meet tight tolerances of customer specifications.

Precision Shear: The process of mechanically cutting sheet to a customer specified size.

PVC Top Side, Bottom Side, or Both: The process of applying PVC to the top and/or bottom of sheet.

Rolling: The process of rolling metal to reduce and unify the thickness of material into a variety of shapes to meet customer specifications, including rings or ring segments.

Testing: Additional material tests can be conducted to help customers meet their requirements.

Trepanning: The process of boring out the internal diameter (ID) of large diameter round bar, leaving a usable core intact.

Tsune Saw: The process of using high speed bar sawing to meet tight tolerance customer specifications.

Tumbling: The process of deburring/polishing small parts in bulk using abrasives and rotation/vibrating motion in a barrel.

Waterjet Cutting: The process of using an extremely high-pressure water jet to cut or shear the material to customer specifications.

Welding: The process of joining materials by using high heat to melt the parts together and allowing them to cool, causing fusion.

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