Taking a shine to cylinders: using a vertically integrated business model, this specialist in chrome-plated bar and tube delivers perfectly round, straight, corrosion-resistant products for high-performance applications.
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Metal Center News
Publication Date: 01-OCT-05 |
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Full Article Title: Taking a shine to cylinders: using a vertically integrated business model, this specialist in chrome-plated bar and tube delivers perfectly round, straight, corrosion-resistant products for high-performance applications.(PROFILE: PRODUCER-INDUSTRIAL HARD CHROME)(Industrial Hard Chrome)(Company Profile) |
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Article Excerpt
COMPANIES THAT USE HYDRAULIC and pneumatic cylinders or piston rods in the equipment they make, such as forklifts, construction equipment and farm machinery, cannot afford to have parts fail. That's why many manufacturers, such as Caterpillar Inc., have come to rely on Industrial Hard Chrome in Geneva, Ill., for its case-hardened, corrosion-resistant, chrome-plated steel bar and tubing.
IHC is actually the centerpiece of three vertically integrated companies, each playing a distinct role in producing and delivering parts to customers with consistent quality despite short lead times.
The feedstock for IHC comes from sister company Bar Technologies, whose plant is located about 100 feet west. Bar Technologies purchases hot-rolled and cold-drawn carbon steel round bars, then turns, grinds and polishes the bars to customer specifications. The bars can be made in imperial and metric sizes, from one-half-inch to 6-inch diameters, with extremely tight tolerances on size, roundness and straightness.
Bar Tech purchases its raw bar inventory from Macsteel, Chaparral Steel, Nucor Steel, Gerdau Ameristeel, Timken Co. and Steel Dynamics Inc. The company also purchases tube stock, which it centerless grinds just like bar stock.
The bar goes through a processing line that begins with pre straightening to enhance dimensional accuracy in the centerless turning operation. Saw-cutting and chamfering the...
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