When Olympic Steel was founded in 1954, our business focused on warehousing and distribution of steel from a single facility with no major processing equipment. Today, our enterprise has an enormously wider range, focused on growth, geographic and customer diversity and the value-added... Read More
Yarde Metals is a distributor of aluminum, stainless, carbon steel and brass. Locally stocked inventory in our facilities throughout New England, Mid Atlantic, Mid West and Southern United States make it possible to provide our customers with quick turn around on the products they need. Yarde... Read More
By O'Neal Steel
Carbon steel is an alloy consisting of iron and carbon. Several other elements are allowed in carbon steel, with low maximum percentages. These elements are manganese, with a 1.65% maximum, silicon, with a 0.60% maximum, and copper, with a 0.60% maximum. Other elements may be present in... Read more »
By O'Neal Steel
A unique combination of properties makes aluminum one of the most versatile engineering and construction materials available. It is light in mass, yet some of its alloys have strengths greater than those of structural steel. It has high resistance to corrosion under most applications. In... Read more »
By O'Neal Steel
Stainless steel is a modern alloy developed in the early 1900’s after metallurgists discovered that chromium-iron alloys displayed superior corrosion resistance to carbon steel alloys. The first products using stainless steel were produced in 1908 and the first patents were granted in 1912.... Read more »
Posted 10/20/2015
Posted 10/20/2015