Making steel requires large amounts of energy and heat and creates polluting waste products, but new technology is making steel production more efficient and (more…)

A partnership between Swansea University, Warwick University, WMG and Tata Steel is using virtual factories to discover ways to develop new steel alloys.

Steel is a (more…)

Almost every industry has a use for tubular steel, which makes it one of the most versatile materials available. For many applications, there is no alternative material that has the same combination of lightweight and (more…)

Many businesses rely on trolleys made from steel to manually move items, but can steel be replaced by other materials? (more…)

New plastic and steel hybrid technology called hollow-profile hybrid (HPH) has been developed that claims to be higher-performing than traditional (more…)

Tubular steel is a versatile product that is ideal for making custom-designed manual handling and storage equipment. (more…)

To join tubular steel to make strong manual handling and storage equipment, skilled metalworkers weld tubular steel lengths to form strong joints, but is this the (more…)

Tubular steel has many functions. It is practical, lightweight and strong, which makes it ideal for material handling and storage equipment such as trolleys and warehouse shelving. It can also look decorative and be (more…)

The newly opened Liberty Steel Dalzell in Motherwell, Scotland is determined to gain its share of the steel market in the UK.

There is a (more…)

Tubular steel has been around since the 1920s. It is a versatile material that is ideally suited for making material handling and storage equipment. It is lightweight and strong and can be easily shaped and welded to (more…)

Steely Products manufactures and supplies a wide selection of clothes rails for the garment industry. Sometimes, a client finds that none of the standard clothes rails exactly matches their needs. This is when they require a (more…)

Tubular steel is used to manufacture material handling and storage equipment, since it is a strong lightweight material and is sustainable. After equipment fabricated from tubular steel comes to the end of its life, the (more…)

Tubular steel is a versatile material that can be used to construct material storage and handling equipment such as tables, trolleys, racks and garment rails. An alternative material is plastic, but there are several reasons why (more…)

From furniture racks to pick and pack tables, most material handling and storage equipment is manufactured using welding to join lengths of (more…)

1. What shape is tubular steel?

Contrary to its name, (more…)

People first started making things from metal 9,000 years ago, and steel has been around for about 3,000 yeats. It is a versatile metal that is still being (more…)