Coil Processing

Charter Steel's state-of-the-art processing plants clean, coat, anneal and draw steel to a customer's specifications. Charter Steel can provide on-time deliveries of fresh processed product from our fully integrated mill.

Before being processed, the steel rod is cleaned and coated. Charter Steel utilizes either sulfuric or hydrochloric acid cleaning and has mechanical descaling (shotblasting) capability.

Charter Steel offers several coatings for its processed products, including:

  • Lime coating
  • Reactive lube
  • Zinc Phosphate
  • Polymer coatings
  • Combination coatings

Charter Steel utilizes box-type, short-time-cycle (STC) and continuous annealing furnaces. The temperature within each furnace is continuously monitored and controlled to produce the exact steel properties specified by our customers. Nitrogen and endothermic gas annealing atmospheres are available.

Charter Steel offers several annealing cycles, including:

  • Spheroidization anneals for improved formability
  • "Regular" and "stress relief" anneals that soften the material without altering the microstructure
  • Lamellar pearlite (LP) anneals for improved machineability
Coil Processing

Coiled Bar, Rod and Wire Products

Charter Steel can process all carbon and alloy grades.

Charter Steel produces a variety of wire in sizes ranging from 0.140" (3.5mm) to 1.439" (36.5mm). The maximum finish size depends on the start size and processes involved.

Charter Steel's wire-drawing operation is capable of producing:

  • Excellent dimensional tolerances with minimum tensile strength (SAFS wire)
  • Cold-forming product with minimal tensile strength (SAIP wire)
  • Wire with carefully targeted tensile strength (DFSAR wire)
  • Eddy Current inspected wire

Coil Processing Products Table

ANSAIP
SASAIP
ANRAIP
ANSAFS
SASAFS
ANRAFS
SAIP
RAIP
DFSAR
DFAR
SAFS
RAFS
ANCC
SACC
STRESS
SPECIAL
DIRECT
DRAWN
CLEAN
& COAT
Clean / Coat Clean / Coat Clean / Coat Clean / Coat Clean / Coat Clean / Coat Clean / Coat Clean / Coat
Anneal Anneal Draw Anneal Draw Anneal Draw Ship
QC Check QC Check Anneal QC Check Anneal QC Check QC Check  
Clean / Coat Clean / Coat QC Check Clean / Coat QC Check Clean / Coat OR Reband Ship  
Draw Draw Clean/ Coat Draw Clean / Coat OR Reband Ship    
Anneal Anneal Draw QC Check Ship      
QC Check QC Check QC Check Ship        
Clean / Coat Clean / Coat OR Reband Ship          
Draw Ship            
QC Check              
Ship