Carbon Steels

Carbon Steel Metallurgy has been, since foundation in 1968, one of the most outstanding objects and interests of Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A. The knowledge and expertise expressed by its researches has allowed a very active design of solutions for steel customers well-fitted with the market needs. That was true yesterday at a national level, it is even more true today and will be in the future within a global operational scenario where the company personnel is increasingly qualified to support most needs of worldwide steel actors and manufacturing companies.

Ultra-Low and Low Carbon Steels

CSM is active in the field of hot and cold rolled, pickled, and annealed steel products targeting the optimization and improvement of the mechanical properties (i.e., grain size, yield point elongation, strain ageing, and so on) according to market needs.
This is obtained through the balance of a number of process factors, such as:

• the manipulation of alloy chemical elements;
• the adoption of the optimal:
• thermo-mechanical treatment practices;
• cold rolling reductions;
• annealing cycles in the hot-dip zinc coating line;
• repartition of pre-deformation between skinpass and stretch levelling;
• response to the pickling problem.

The Ultra-Low and Low-Carbon Steels manufacturers, moreover, may receive a profitable support in finding new perspectives in the market through the development of new products and low cost processes (i.e., ferritic hot milling), and understanding and removal of the causes of product non-conformity, possibly with the help of microstructural models for process automation, control and monitoring.