Metallurgy is one of the important parts of modern industry, as it becomes the basis for the production of machinery and equipment, means of transport and the vast majority of consumer goods. Both corrosion-resistant metals and, for example, heat-resistant stainless steel are used here. As an example of the use of heat-resistant steel, we could cite turbines or hot water pipes, and corrosion resistance of stainless steel is key in the food or automotive industries, in construction and other fields. Structural steel is also the backbone of construction and mechanical engineering; we can hardly imagine building bridges without scaffolding or transporting liquids without seamless pressure pipes. Another important product of iron metallurgy is boiler steel for steam boilers and pressure vessels, compressors or aircraft or car engines. The group of stainless steels also includes martensitic steel, which can be easily refined by quenching and tempering and strengthened by the alloying element molybdenum. The hardened steel then acquires very important properties – hardness and wear resistance, and tempering of the material additionally strengthens its strength and suppresses brittleness. Metallurgical production also produces annealed material, which ensures, for example, better machinability in steel with a higher carbon content. Annealing can be with or without grain recrystallization. Low-alloy steel can also be resistant to corrosion (atmospheric), if it is so-called patinating, otherwise low-alloy steel behaves like ordinary structural steel in terms of corrosion. The Boden company supplies metallurgical material to the market in many forms. This includes, for example, rolled steel for the production of rolled bars of various diameters, most often between 20 and 300 mm, then forged bars and then also partially machined rough bars. Steel rolled profiles are also part of metallurgical production, here you can find, for example, IPN and IPE profiles (crossbeams), L profiles, U profiles, T profiles. Rolled profiles are necessary, for example, in the construction industry.
