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Cast Carbon Steel

Cast Carbon Steel

Caster Metal offers the best and affordablecast products and services in the market. Here, our innovative approach offersnot only satisfaction but the sure success of your business.

Caster Metal engineers are experts when itcomes to metal castings. Our team’s insight and dedication make our castproducts strong to meet your business requirements. We listen to you to meetyour specifications about the products you order.

Our work doesn’t end there.

We also see to it that the finished surface ofthe metal fits your requirements. If you like, we can make adjustments inmelting alloys such as steel, titanium, bronze, carbon steel and other alloys.We don’t only give you excellent work but also assurance that you’ll achieveyour business goals.

When it comes to casting carbon steel, we seeto it that we have huge and the best materials to complete the steel castings.Our team is ready to give you quality carbon steel that fits your preferenceand business goals.

Let’s talk about cast carbon steel a littlefurther.

What is Cast CarbonSteel?

Yes, you’re right if you think that carbonsteel only has a principal alloy element – carbon. But there are other elementspresent in cast carbon steel but only in small amounts. Examples of theseelements are Silicon and Manganese.

Silicon (Si) ranges from 0.25 to 0.80%,and Manganese (Mn) ranges from 0.50 to 1.00%.

Carbon Steels are divided into three groupsdepending on carbon content such as:

  • Lowcarbon steels – < O.20% C
  • Mediumcarbon steels – 0.20 up to 0.50% C
  • Highcarbon steels – > 0.050% C

The low-alloy steels have alloying elementsbesides carbon, with 8% total alloy content. Meanwhile, cast steels contain theamount of a single element that makes these as low cast steels.

Take note: We use titanium, aluminum, zirconium for thedeoxidation of low-alloy steels and carbon. Since it’s affordable and effective, we often use Aluminum in thedeoxidation. The Sulphur limit for low-alloy steels and carbon is 0.06% (unlessspecified).  0.05% is the standardphosphorus limit.

Structure and Propertyof Cast Carbon Steels

Caster Metal produces cast carbon steels indifferent properties such as strength, hardness, fatigue resistance, ductility,and toughness. Yes, our carbon steel selections are according to variousproperties, but we still recognize the interrelationships between theseproperties.

Here’s an example:

For Strength and Hardness: the ultimate tensile strength oflow-alloy steels and cast carbon ranges from 414 to 1724MPa. (But this dependson the heat treatment and alloy choice.) For carbon steels, the heat treatmentand carbon content determine the strength and hardness.

For Strength and Ductility: The actual ductility requirements depend on the hardness and strength ofthe steel.  For example, quenched andtempered cast steels give higher ductility than annealed or normalized steels.

Remember: The more carbon we add on steel, the strongerand harder it gets under heat treatment. But it also becomes less ductile thatmeans the steel loses strength when it’s deformed. A steel having high carboncontent is less malleable. The more carbon steel has, the lower the meltingpoint.

Why Shop for Cast CarbonSteel at Caster Metal?

As a trusted and excellent company, CasterMetal provides high quality cast carbon steels to meet your needs. We useadvanced tools and equipment to produce carbon steels for your business. Fromthe planning to the creation stage, our engineers work together to provide youthe best carbon steels.

Our team is ready and willing to create achange in your business. Here, you wouldn’t experience hassles and delays whenit comes to the delivery of cast carbon steel. We follow an “on-time” approach,so the cast products are in your hands at once.

Our team makes sure that carbon steel creationis fast and cost-effective. We want to help you reach success, so we do itnow! 

Caster Metal gives priority to our customers,so we listen to your carbon steel specifications right away. We’re also open tosuggestions if you like. Talk to us, give the details of your order, and wewill work on it right away!

Caster Metal is a worthy and best partner youcan have! Your success begins here with us!