Category: Plate Rolls

Running Hot and Cold When you need to order cold rolled or hot rolled steel for your next fabrication project, it’s important to buy the right kind to match the job. Not only are there four major types or groups of steel (carbon, alloy, stainless, and tool steel), the World Steel Association has identified over […]

Compiling the Rules of the Roll It is incumbent on every metal fabricator (including plate roll operators) to create and continually update a list of guidelines, tips, tricks, safe shortcuts, and rules about each type of metalworking process and operation that they perform. While some will be general for any model of a certain type […]

In spite of the continued proliferation of three-roll bending machines in the market today, four-roll plate rolls are steadily becoming more dominant in the plate and sheet metal fabrication industry because of their general superiority. While three-roll asymmetrical initial pinch machines are still the go-to for rolling light gauge sheet metal, four-roll benders are the […]