Large manufacturers who use vast tonnages of steel products such as the automobile manufacturers, appliance industry, switchgear producers, and other sheet-metal fabricators may order their steel to ...

A shear failure occurs when the clinched joint leaves a hole in the punch-side material. This typically happens due to ...

Webco Group Holdings Inc., Olathe, Kan., has acquired Windfield, Mo.-based BMF Metal Fabrication LLC, a provider of precision-fabricated products of steel, aluminum, and stainless steel.

and other sheet metal fabricators, may order their steel to their own specifications (composition, gauges, and physical properties). The steel sheets are supplied in flat form or rolled into coils.