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Find Durable Rolled Steel for Construction Projects

Central Metal Source has been bringing together sellers and buyers of hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel sheets, plates, coils, and other metal options for the past 70 years. As wholesalers, we are a critical supply partner for multiple companies in numerous sectors. These companies can be found in the oil and gas, automotive, rail, marine, aerospace, transport, utility, power generation, and electronics industries. They include manufacturers, distributors, fabricators, installers, and service companies.
 
Maintaining this network of buyers and sellers ensures both can rely on our intuitive, easy-to-use online auction platform. This platform ensures that buyers needing structural steel building materials for sale can benefit from sellers with excess or obsolete inventory of the same grade of steel or metal.
 
Whether it’s hot rolled or cold rolled steel sheets, coil, and plate, aluminum or titanium, or types of metal, ensuring buyers and sellers have one location for online auctions is what the team at Central Metal Source does best. However, we’re not just a location for construction-grade beams for sale. We don’t just offer sellers within the construction industry an opportunity to turn their obsolete steel, aluminum, and titanium inventory into working capital. We go a step further.
 
As important as the online auction platform is, it’s equally important that we provide critical information and specifications about the many different metals we have available for sale. When you join our online auction platform as a buyer or seller, you join a community of like-minded professionals within the construction industry who share critical information about availability, pricing, and market trends.
 
From opening your account on our online auction platform to receiving your first shipment, the Central Metal Source team will be with you every step of the way. You’ll find a wide range of different metals and alloys for sale. Whether it’s high-carbon steel from manufacturers within the automotive industry, medium-to-high carbon steel from the rail industry, or lightweight aluminum and titanium from the aerospace and aviation industry, you’ll find numerous different metals and grades for whatever construction project you’re undertaking.

The Types of Rolled Steel That We Offer

At Central Metal Source, we’ve become the must-have supplier of cold-rolled and hot-rolled steel coil and sheets for numerous commercial and residential construction companies. So, what’s the difference between the two?
 
Our hot-rolled steel sheets are easily distinguished by their rough outer surface. A critical welding option for construction companies, our hot rolled steel plate, coil, and sheets have undergone a heat treatment process that increases the steel’s durability, impact resistance, hardness, and overall strength. This means our hot rolled steel is heated to a temperature beyond the steel’s melting point. This high melting recrystallizes the steel and changes its properties to the point where its mechanical and chemical makeup changes.
 
Cold-rolled steel sheets have a much smoother surface finish. It is essentially hot-rolled steel that goes through another heat treatment. Once again, this additional heat treatment changes the properties of the steel, making it capable of supporting a heavier load, making it harder, and giving it higher tensile strength and impact resistance capabilities.
 
Whether you need hot rolled steel for the support structures and beams of houses, condos, and commercial buildings or our cold rolled steel for manufacturing household appliances, our online platform makes buying or selling easy and hassle-free.

How to Select the Right Rolled Steel For Your Project

When deciding which steel sheets to buy, it’s important to understand your application. While hot-rolled steel is much easier to machine than cold-rolled steel, it’s ultimately an option that is best suited for structures and support beams. When steel undergoes heat treatment – and becomes hot rolled steel – it becomes more malleable and easier to work with, which makes it perfect for bending and forming. This is why fabricators use hot-rolled steel often.
 
Cold-rolled steel is best used in applications that require tight finishing tolerances. While it is harder to machine than hot-rolled steel, cold-rolled steel still provides a much better surface finish with more accurate and tighter tolerances once machined. This is largely why cold-rolled steel is so heavily used by manufacturers who need to make finished goods whose tolerances and dimensions must be precise.
 
Finally, take the time to consider the environment your steel coil or other metal will be exposed to. Steel that is used outside is much more exposed to the elements. This means having excellent corrosion and impact resistance is best for steel coil, sheet, and plate options. The steel used in machinery and equipment – exposed to different chemicals, humidity, temperatures, and operating conditions – must be capable of withstanding these conditions without degrading.
 
If you are looking for a hot-rolled or cold-rolled steel coil for sale or have questions about how our platform works, contact us now.