Steel metallurgists find great satisfaction in producing top-quality steels with first class magnetic properties. Machine designers, similarly, wish to produce top-quality machines. Unfortunately both are bound within economic restraints to produce products which are marketable and profitable. For the steel-maker compromises have to be made in the direction of reduced costs. This usually involves: choice of steel composition, choice of rolling and heat treatment regimes and choice of coatings.

Inspec keywords: heat treatment; rolling; cost reduction; production equipment; furnaces; metallurgy; steel; steel manufacture; coatings; quality control

Other keywords: top-quality machine production; coatings; steel metallurgists; machine designers; cost reduction; heat treatment; top quality steel production; rolling; steel composition

Subjects: Metallurgical industries