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With their diversity of shapes, steel bars can appear in many places throughout your day-to-day life — and yet it […]

Metal grating includes a wide variety of low-maintenance, durable, and versatile metal products used in all kinds of load-bearing projects […]

If you’re in the steel or construction industry, you’ve probably heard of Jumbo HSS (hollow structural sections) by now. This […]

In some of our other resources, we’ve discussed the basics of other structural steel shapes such as beams, pipes, angles, […]

Dating back thousands of years, alloys have been a crucial discovery that has shaped our world ever since. Alloys allow […]

If you’re planning a project that uses cement or concrete, you probably know that steel rebar plays a big role […]

Steel angles can appear basic in appearance, but the different types, sections, measurements, and more can be overwhelming for those […]

Steel pipes can be confusing for those not familiar with the terms and different ways of referring to a pipe’s […]

If you take a steel rod or bar and hollow out the middle, is it a pipe or a tube? […]

In 1884, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago became the first skyscraper to use steel in its construction. Since then, […]