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Steel tubes: products, production and areas of application
Steel tubes are round, rectangular or square steel products that are hollow on the inside. They are therefore often referred to as hollow sections. Here you will find our range of different steel tubes for various applications.
Steel tubes in seamless design.
Steel pipes are available in seamless and welded versions. They differ primarily in their manufacturing process. Seamless steel tubes, such as precision steel tubes or hydraulic line tubes, are manufactured from pre-drilled or pre-punched blocks in a heated state, which are then stretched and rolled into the finished tube in the subsequent steps.
Welded steel tubes
Welded pipes are made from sheet metal or flat products. These are first shaped during the manufacturing process and then welded with a longitudinal or spiral seam. The final steel tube is then produced in the subsequent post-processing stages.
Where are steel pipes used?
As a line pipe in a wastewater construction, as a machine part in plant engineering or as a load-bearing element in construction – the range of applications for hollow sections is broad due to their many different forms and variations. They are used both as static and structural elements in areas such as
- Construction industry
- Mechanical and plant engineering
- Pipeline construction
- automotive industry
How are steel sheets manufactured?
Sheet steel is produced using the so-called hot rolling process and then cold-rolled into shape if required. During hot rolling, steel ingots are heated and reduced and stretched to the required thickness by applying pressure in the mill’s rolling gap.
If necessary, the sheet can then be cold rolled. In this process, the sheets are reduced to an even thinner thickness at room temperature.
The advantages of steel pipes
Steel pipes are very diverse in their design and therefore offer an optimum solution for almost every requirement at the respective place of use. What they all have in common is that they always have the advantages of low weight, high load-bearing capacity if required and high heat resistance.
In addition, like almost all steel products, they are recyclable and therefore one of the most sustainable building materials.