Diamond/floor plate steel sheet and plate is hot rolled carbon steel that has raised lugs in a diamond shaped pattern on surface.  Since the introduction of floor plate to the steel market, countless mills have developed methods to roll coil with a variety of raised lug patterns.

Diamond plate steel was originally created to meet the demands for new, safer steel products.  Click on the link above to keep reading and learn more!

As mentioned in previous posts, hot rolled steel is the most basic form of carbon steel.  However, the scale that is left behind on hot rolled steel after it is formed is undesirable in many manufacturing applications and processes.  In order to combat the scale issue, mills started to pickle and oil their steel to create a more desirable product for end users. 

Thus, hot rolled pickled and oiled (from here on referred to as HRPO) flat rolled steel coils were born.  HRPO steel is still considered hot rolled steel even though it does not have any scale. The final product of HRPO steel is created when steel mills use acid baths to remove the scale that usually forms on the surface of carbon steel coil, as the coil is cooling.  Click on the above title to keep reading and learn more.

The most basic form of carbon steel is hot rolled steel.  Hot rolled steel coil is instantly recognizable by the bluish-tinge scale that covers the outside surface of a hot rolled carbon steel coil.  

The scale covering hot rolled steel is actually iron oxide that forms on the surface of the steel during a chemical reaction that occurs when the hot rolled steel is created at a steel mill.  Because of this scale, hot rolled steel is best suited for use where the surface finish is not critical to the end user.  Click on the title above to keep reading and learn more!

In today’s blog we will review Camden Yards Steel’s product overview.  As a flat rolled steel processing and distributing company, we specialize in cut-to-length and slit carbon steel products.   Camden Yards Steel carries a wide variety of carbon flat rolled steel products in coil, slit coil, plate, sheet, and blank forms.  Click the title above to keep reading and learn more!