Steel Sheet Supplier – Carbon Steel Sheet, Coil & Cut Plate from Shanghai

HXSCO supplies carbon steel sheet in hot-rolled, cold-rolled, galvanised and pre-painted finishes, plus pickled stock...

Resistance Welding Guide: Spot, Seam & Projection Welding

Resistance welding passes a concentrated current through overlapped sheet so the contact resistance heats and...

Metal Recycling Guide: Reclaiming Steel, Aluminium & Copper

Metal recycling melts scrap back into specification alloy, saving most of the energy of primary...

Quench Cracking Guide: Causes, Prevention & Design Rules

Quench cracks are brittle fractures that appear as a steel part cools from the quench...

Martensite Guide: The Hard, Brittle Phase Behind Quenched Steel

Martensite is the supersaturated, needle-like phase formed when austenite is quenched faster than it can...

Laser Welding Guide: High-Speed, Low-Heat Beam Welding

Laser welding focuses a coherent beam to melt a narrow, deep weld with very low...

Friction Stir Welding Guide: Solid-State Joining of Aluminium & Steel

Friction stir welding (FSW) is a solid-state process that rotates a non-consumable pin through the...

Dendrite Guide: How Metal Solidifies from the Melt

A dendrite is the tree-like crystal that grows as molten metal freezes; its arm spacing...

Bainite Guide: Tough, Fine-Platelet Steel Microstructure

Bainite is a fine mixture of ferrite and carbide formed in the medium temperature range...

Chromium Supplier – Cr Metal, Ferrochrome & Plating Stock from Shanghai

HXSCO supplies chromium metal, ferrochrome and chromium plate stock — the metal that gives stainless...