Due to its excellent properties, mild steel has gained demand in various industries. It has unparalleled weldability and machinability, which has led to an exponential increase in its usage.
Check out how mild steel is made and how paramount stainless can help you with customed sheet metal fabrication.

What Is Mild Steel?

Mild steel is a type of low carbon steel that contains a small percentage of carbon. It enhances the properties of pure iron. The carbon content can vary depending on the requirements for the steel. Low carbon steels contain carbon 0.05 to 0.25 percent.

There are different grades of mild steel but all of them have carbon content as per the limits mentioned. Even other elements are added to enhance the useful properties like corrosion resistance, wear-resistance, and tensile strength.

How Is Low Carbon Steel Made?

Carbon content is uniformly increased by heat-treating steel as the carbon content increases steel develops hardness but loses ductility. This means that the metal becomes brittle and may break instead of bending when the excess load is applied.

The manufacturing processes for mild steel are similar to that of other carbon steels. Higher carbon steels only contain carbon that has different properties like high strength and hardness values compared to mild steel.
These processes have developed in recent years and now it is much more cost-effective than before. In modern manufacturing, the three steps are involved in manufacturing mild steel out of pure iron are listed as follows.

• Primary Steelmaking
• Casting and Primary Forming
• Secondary Forming

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