TimkenSteel announced Wednesday that it recently opened a $5 million technology center at its Northeast Ohio corporate campus that will allow the company to achieve clean special bar quality (SBQ) steel and develop new steel grades.
The TimkenSteel Technology Center features a dozen laboratories, including a brand new scanning electron microscope, an ultrasonic lab, a physical process modeling lab and additional labs where metallurgists and materials scientists can test steel and find inclusions less than the width of a hair.
Steel cleanness is important for high performance in critical products such as gears, bearings, axles, crankshafts, down-the-hole drilling equipment and military applications.
The 20,000-square-foot facility, in combination with the company's steelmaking capabilities, allows TimkenSteel to integrate learning and knowledge and achieve high levels of steel performance from the company's new $200 million jumbo bloom vertical caster at the Faircrest Steel Plant in Canton.