Cold rolled steel from BlueScope Distribution
Our BlueScope Distribution customers can access a wide range of cold rolled steel products manufactured by BlueScope. Cold rolled products are available in sheet and coil form and are produced from pickled hot rolled strip. Cold rolled products are available in four product groups:
- Formable
- Structural
- Carbon
- Hardness
Cold rolled steel products are used in a wide range of manufacturing applications such as bearings, shelving, automotive parts, washers, guard rails, general fabrication and welding to name a few.
Product
National supplier of cold rolled steel products
Cold rolled steel products are often used in automotive parts, washers and bushes, structural applications and guard rails. Our customers who manufacture a wide range of products using cold rolled steel can source their products with one easy point of contact with their BlueScope Distribution account manager. Our BlueScope Distribution team is experienced in helping customers to access a range of cold rolled steel products made by BlueScope.
The range includes:
BlueScope manufacture cold rolled products in the following categories:
- Formable
- Structural
- Carbon
- Hardness
Grade options include:
- CA1010H-E steel: Application examples: bearings, hardened washers and bushes
- CA2S-E steel: Application examples: office furniture, shelving
- CA3SN-G steel: Application examples: unexposed drawn parts for automotive and appliance end uses
- CA85T-G steel: Application examples: flat blanking seals, washers, brackets, and hinges
- DRUMSTOCK® steel: Cold-rolled, skin-passed steel produced specifically for the container market drum and pail bodies and ends
- CA250T-G steel: Application examples: general fabrication and welding Guard rails, structural sections
- CM350-G® steel: Application examples: automotive components, seat parts, tubing
- CU200T-G steel: Application examples: general fabrication and welding Tubing, general pressing
- CV2S1 steel: Application examples: stove liners, heaters
Talk to our teams today regarding your specific needs.
Processing
Cold rolled steel processing capabilities
BlueScope Distribution offers a wide range of sheet and coil processing services, which we offer to our customers in manufacturing and other segments, who then produce any number of end customer products such as hinges, drums, bearings, washers, automotive parts and tubing.
We have in-house slitting and shearing equipment, which enables us to provide our customers their steel products in the form they need. This includes sheet packs and slit coils to customer specification.
Your BlueScope Distribution team are experienced and through our network we can supply the technical knowledge our customers need to choose the right cold rolled steel product for their specific needs.
Our customers are able to utilise our experience and expertise in cold rolled steel products, to then manufacture a wide range of end user products. Our diversified range of products, processing quality and expertise, as well as supply chain and project management capability provide our customers a complete solution. BlueScope Distribution customers can appreciate the effectiveness our sales teams offer, providing confidence in knowing the quality product they need will be available on time and to project or manufacturing timelines.
Cold rolled steel processing services
Your processing services for cold rolled steel products include:
- Slitting
- Shearing
- Recoiling
To learn more about our range of steel processing services including services for plate steel products, please visit our processing page.
Solutions
Value-add solutions for cold rolled steel
Our BlueScope Distribution teams are recognised for our exceptional customer service, with a focus on providing our customers with end-to-end project management solutions, delivering personalised supply chain co-ordination. Our team have the technical resources to tackle the most complex project requirements.
BlueScope Distribution’s value-add solutions
With a national network of branches Australia-wide, your BlueScope Distribution teams provide ease of accessibility and full supply chain solutions for the range of cold rolled steel products. We work closely with our customers to manage product requirements and forecasting to ensure material is available how and when it is needed, so our customers can concentrate on manufacturing a wide range of end use products. Your BlueScope Distribution team can assist with scheduling, forecasting, consignment options, product labelling and kitting options, nesting, and project management from start to finish.
BlueScope Distribution’s Steel Efficiency Review®
Our Steel Efficiency Review® is available to our customers, it is a service we offer to assist with looking closely at production and processing lines to help our customers identify potential cost and time savings to recommend possible improvements. To learn more, please visit our SER® page.
Our wide range of products
With BlueScope Distribution, customers can also access a wide range of steel and aluminium products that complement our cold rolled steel range. Your local branch can supply steel sheet and coil products, hot rolled steel, RHS steel, SHS steel, prepainted steel, merchant bar and structural steel. At BlueScope Distribution, we are dedicated to serving customers across Australia. Our metro branches are strategically located in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney, and we also have many rural branches to provide customers who live out-with these locations with high quality steel products.