Engineering Bar
Engineered for high precision applications
At LIBERTY Steel we have an established and proven track record of supplying high quality hot rolled bar and coil, as well as cold finished bar into a diverse range of markets. We understand that predictability in machining and tool life are key, and our technical expertise enables us to help our customers to develop tailored solutions for their needs.
Our engineering bar products cover a wide range of markets from high volume industrial markets to niche components, and all our products meet or exceed national and international standards.
We have a comprehensive bar range which encompasses a variety of steel quality types and is available in both metric and imperial sizes.
Typical applications include hydraulics, yellow goods and general machining.
A fully integrated supply chain from steelmaking to bright bar delivers full traceability and continuity of supply, and this is backed by extensive testing and heat treatment capability.
Services
We can offer a tailored service package focused on individual needs:
- Extensive heat treatment capability including spheroidal annealing, annealing to hardness or grain structure, normalising, stress relieving, quench and tempering
- Chamfering/facing one or both ends
- Hire rolling
- Cutting to length for requirements <3 metres
- Special packaging to individual customer requirements
- Turning
- Bright drawing
Product
We can offer customers an extensive range of grades based on their technical requirements:
- Low and medium carbon free-cutting steels
- Carbon manganese steels
- Boron treated steels
- Case carburising steels
- Micro alloy steels
- Alloy through hardening steels
- Free cutting steels
- Nitriding steels
- Enhanced machinabilitysteels, including leaded variant steels
- Bearing steels
Customer approvals
Bright Bar Delphi, Autoliv, Caterpillar, Citroen, Peugeot, Ford, Renault, Volvo, Scania
Accreditations
IATF 16949, BS EN ISO9001, BS EN ISO17025, BS EN ISO 14001
Supply
| Supply | Type | Shape | Metric (mm) | Imperial (inches) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bright | Bar | Round drawn | 8 – 90 | 0.31 – 3.54 |
| Hexagon drawn | 10 – 70 | 0.72 – 1.56 | ||
| Round turned | 19 – 230 | 0.75 – 9.05 | ||
| Round heat treated | 10 – 225 | 0.39 – 8.86 | ||
| Hexagon heat treated | 10 – 76 | 0.39 – 2.99 | ||
| Black | Bar 4500 mm – 14700 mm |
Round | 22 – 105 | 0.87 – 4.13 |
| Hexagon | 22 – 80 | 0.87 – 3.15 | ||
| Coil 2150kg – 3225kg |
Round | 15.5 – 52 | 0.73 – 2.04 | |
| Hexagon | 15 – 42.5 | 0.72 – 1.67 | ||
| Square | 14 – 27 | 0.55 – 1.06 |
Got a question?
We have a comprehensive technical support team available to advise on grade selection and product range to achieve the maximum benefit. Customer Technical support provide specialist advice and help with day-to-day problem solving.
Works based metallurgists and the full resources of our Steel Research and Development Laboratories are available to assist with longer-term developments.
For further information, enquiries or any technical guidance on our range of Aerospace products please contact our experts.
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