Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that its Czech Republic-based subsidiary ArcelorMittal Ostrava’s medium section rolling mill has developed and is now producing flat bars that will be used to make leaf springs, a steel spring that is used in a vehicle’s suspension system.
ArcelorMittal Ostrava is the company’s first European plant to produce the flat bars for leaf springs. ArcelorMittal currently makes the same bars in its Canada and Brazil operations.
The bars are made of high quality, low-alloy chromium vanadium steel with outstanding elastic formability and hardenability.
The medium section rolling mill currently produces around 750,000 mt of steel products, including a large variety of hot rolled long products such as ribbed bars for concrete reinforcement or beams. Thanks to a recent investment of CZK 200 million ($8.3 million), the rolling mill also manufactures threaded bars in sizes of 15 mm to 75 mm, which are used in buildings, underground construction and geotechnical structures.