• Experienced in the field of heavy-duty machinery design and building – more than 50 years
• Design experience of plate levelers for stainless, carbon steel, and high strength alloys
• Design experience of unique rolling mills for specialty materials in aerospace and military applications (al, ta, ni, ne, co & proprietary alloys)
• Equipment built by asp is used in different industries: steel, stainless, aluminum, aluminum/aluminum alloy sandwich for bearings, copper, brass, computer/electronics, special powder metals
• Heavy-duty design with high safety-factor
• High-quality components: rolls, gears, motors, bearings, electrical controls, and hydraulics
• Housings: forged steel with highest quality and ultrasound/ndt tested
• Rolls: forged, heat treated & ground from proprietary chemistry
• Competent and expert engineering staff
• Fabrication, assembly, and testing facilities with overhead cranes
• State-of-the-art design capability, autocad, 3-d modeling, latest technology for automation and controls with modern plc, hmi and computer controlled system
• Reliable technical assistance during installation and start-up (drawings, manuals, e-mail/telephone support)
• On-site start-up engineering support anywhere in the world
• Technical support throughout life of machinery

Exact specifications for all of our hot rolling mills and cold rolling mills are available by clicking through to their respective sub pages.

For more information about ASP rolling mills, please call 419.843.6051 or email sales@americansteel.com

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Certain vessels require food to all be within stainless steel. When cooking in large high pressure vessels, it is necessary to have a high pressure, safe vessel to withstand substantial pressure with large safety factors therefore, the inside walls are made of stainless. The outer walls of a vessel are made of heavy carbon steel. Carbon steel can be heavy in thickness because it is easy to weld and assures a good bond for possible high pressures. The vessel is made from cladded plate.

Cladding can be copper to plastic, such as used in printed circuits. One purpose for cladded material is main bearings and connecting rod bearings for gasoline and diesel engines. Bearing material used to be Babbitt, which is a lead alloy. Babbitt was fused to the steel as an insert. Babbitt, being soft and with proper lubrication, made a good bearing however, lead is not good for the environment and better material is now used, including aluminum tin copper alloys. This soft alloy needs to be cladded to the steel. To fuse this material to steel, you need a cladding process developed by American Steel Products Company, Toledo, Ohio. Many types of bearings have been developed using rolling mills.

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Mechanical gauges are not good for polished material because they can leave a slight line on the surface.  An advantage of a mechanical C-frame gauge is the fact that you don’t need to make any adjustments if you are running brass, copper, stainless steel, or steel.  If you use a radiation gauge or an x-ray gauge, they may need to be recalibrated for each type of material.  In fact, radiation gauge measurement can change from one carbon steel to another.  Mechanical measuring of a moving strip has many advantages.  It also eliminates the fear of the operator of being around x-ray gauges.

Direct gap control actually measures the distance between the roll gap.  Even though the rolls are perfectly concentric, the large back up bearings can be slightly eccentric, and the roll can runout over .001”.  With every revolution, there can be a change in thickness of .001” therefore, direct gap control is necessary.  If the bearing or roll is not concentric, say .001”, the automatic screw downs with direct gap control can make this correction.  Eccentricity may not be from roll grind, but from the bearings themselves.  Direct gap control can hold tolerances to ± .0005” with a very simple gauge system.

Mechanical or non-contact radiation gauges, such as gamma or x-ray gauges, are usually located on the entrance and exit sides of the rolling mill.  When the strip needs a change in input thickness, it automatically, in microseconds, depending on line speed, adjusts the rolling mill so that a uniform thickness is on the output side.  The output side sometimes checks with the direct gap control gauge to assure thickness.  At all times, the non-contact gauges are perpendicular to the strip.

To start measuring before rolling is referred to as anticipatory automatic gauge control. When speeds are moving at over 1,000 FPM, adjustments are made in microseconds.  In all cases, all of these gauges can be used to operate the hydraulic screw downs.  Again, the benefit of hydraulic screw downs is that the cylinder can move upward or downward in microseconds.

The latest non-contact gauges have been developed by American Steel Products using laser technology.  They can measure moving aluminum or steel strip at any speed without contact.  This new proprietary development is in used today.

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Our equipment is designed to meet your manufacturing needs of High Quality Stainless Steel Tubes, Strips & Coils.

We are instrumental in offering a quality-assured range carbon-steel tube mill equipment. Our Stainless Steel Tube equipment is manufactured using high quality steel procured from the reliable vendors of the market. These products are widely used in various industries such as Petroleum industries, chemical industries, oil and refineries, to name a few. These products are highly applauded by the customers for their longer service life, robust construction and excellent performance. In addition to this, we provide customization as per the exact specifications detailed by our customers. The manufacture technology is cold drawn/cold rolled/hot rolled. Steel tubing is seamless & welded.

Structure of the Machine:

• Double Side Uncoiler
• 3-Stage Roller Tube/Pipe Making Machine
  (Forming / Welding / Sizing)
• Welding Seam Grinding
• Auto Cutter Unit
• Electric Control System Equipment
• Forming Roller
• Auto Unloading Platform

Because of the expertise of our team of experts, we also offer steel tube section manufacturing equipment to our clients. The steel tube section manufacturing equipment that we offer to our clients is made utilizing high-grade raw materials, which are sourced from reputable vendors in the market. In addition to ensuring high-quality material, the offered range of steel tube section manufacturing equipment is quality checked using different parameters to verify its adherence with the international quality standards and norms in the industry.

Features:

• Rust proof nature
• Durable
• Precision engineering
• Reliable

We also offer equipment to manufacture Stainless Steel Piping. Stainless steel piping is the clear choice for pure and reliable water systems.  With millions of miles of pipelines worldwide used for the transmission of drinking water, these pipelines must offer corrosion resistance to the water itself.  stainless steel has been shown to provide the necessary corrosion resistance for most applications, at a cost competitive with other piping materials.

At American Steel, we also offer Cut-to-Length lines and slitting lines. We are here to meet your manufacturing needs across the industry when it comes to working with Stainless Steel.

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