Steel Tubing
Steel tubing are cold-worked, hollow metal parts that are often employed to provide support and strength to railing, ladders, poles, and exercise equipment. They also provide strong protection to conductors and wiring. Steel tubing varies in shape, size and thickness-in face, steel manufacturers can produce round, square, rectangular, oval or hexagonal tubing. Steel tubing can be found in various products and industries, such as the construction, automotive, electronics, shipbuilding and aerospace industries. It is commonly used to help make products like fences, railings, gates, lawn and garden equipment, playground equipment, trailer safety equipment, flu tubes, automobiles, conveyors, flag poles, farm equipment and furniture.
There are multiple types of steel tubing avaliable. These include cold rolled steel tubing, galvanized steel tubing, hot rolled pickled and oiled steel tubing, electro-galvanized tubing, and galvannealed steel tubing. Because of the wide variety of uses, each kind of steel tubing has its own unique attributes and ideal applications, and therefore each tube must meet tight specifications for its particular function. CNC machining, flaring, reductions, welding and brazing are some of the processes that can be used to form steel tubing. They are most commonly manufactured, though, by a cold-worked metal spinning procedure.