Allegheny Technologies

Precision Kidd Steel is a leading producer of engineered cold finished products. These customized cold-finished steel bar and wire products are produced in a broad range of sizes, shapes, chemistries and finishes. Having a wide variety of precision applications, its cold-finished steel bar and wire comes in rounds, squares, hexagons, flats and special shapes, as well as centerless- ground and polished products. A full range of carbon, alloy and tool steels are also available. Precision Kidd Steel maintains its headquarters in Aliquippa, Pa., and has an additional location in Clinton, Pa. The company has approximately 70 employees.

Founded in 1923, Blair Strip Steel Company is ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100 certified. It is a manufacturer of precision cold-rolled strip steel. The company offers a wide range of steel grades, such as alloy, high carbon, low carbon, electromagnetic iron, high strength low alloy, aircraft quality and customized grades. Additionally, it provides automotive, fine blanking and heavy gauge stamping applications. The company s operations include tandem cold rolling mills, custom annealing, slitting, shearing, edging and oscillate winding. Its lab facility specializes in performing testing for hardness, yield, tensile, elongation, microstructure, chemistry, surface topography and heat-treatment response. Blair Strip Steel Company is located in New Castle, Pa.

Quality Rolls is a part of Superior Forge & Steel, which is a fully integrated forged steel roll providing company that was formerly known as Superior Forge & Steel Corporation and was established in 1991. It has a team of personnel who have experience in melting, forging, heat treating and machining technologies. The company s primary product includes forged, hardened steel rolls for the hot and cold rolling of ferrous and nonferrous materials. Quality Rolls also offers specialty forging, heat treatment and machining services, as well as commercial ingots. It utilizes several hardening methods that include differential, classical and dual frequency progressive induction, as well as quenching methods that include water, forced air and subzero cryogenic in liquid nitrogen for the reduction of retained austenite. The company also utilizes forging methods that develop homogeneous, fine-grained metallurgical structures for imparting strength and ductility in the forging cross-section.