Fabricators: Remove the Oil From Your Steel Plate and Sheet

May 7, 2010 - PRLog -- You don't see smiles at the gas station nowadays. Motorists don't seem to be yet used to handing over $3.00 or higher for a gallon of gas and they may not get used to it for quite some time. Nonetheless, the high cost of gas is becoming a unpleasant reality for motorists.

Oil on flat rolled steel is a fact of life for plenty of steel strip fabricators. Till SCS came along  -  see http://www.scsprocess.com. With the fabricating performance of P&O, yet a thoroughly clean, oil-free surface, (see http://www.scsprocess.com/advantages/scs-steel-surface-finish.html) SCS steel has sheet metal workers wondring the accurate price tag of oil on their plate steel.

Several who changed to SCS tell us that they are happy to be losing Pickled & Oil's oil . They don't like how it gums up tools and tends to make sheets stick when destacking. Still those we talked to place a price on what these many problems actually cost them.

Why? In truth, too many factors are involved to create a basic formula. Alternatively, a analytical model factoring in the fundamental issues learned in the survey was written. The Interactive Oil Penalty Estimator - is offered for anyone to utilize.

This model figures oil cost penalties in 4 areas:
- Material cost if P&O is more expensive than SCS,
- Labor costs if oil creates nonproductive work,
- Perishables costs necessary for items needed for dealing with oil,
- Capacity penalty if oil slows operations throughput.

So what are some Estimator findings? A case was analyzed for a fabricator of toolboxes. Based on 16,750 tons/year of pickled & oiled with several fabrication processes, Estimator calculated an annual oil cost penalty of $420,000 .

Are you having to pay a high price for rust protection that oil offers? You might want to try the Calculator to find an approximation of what that cost might be. You can access it at this link: http://www.scsprocess.com///steellibrary/scs-steel-specs....

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SCS Steel Suppliers provide the surface treatment, SCS for Smooth Clean Surface. SCS removes rust/mill scale leaving a high quality steel surface finish, smooth as stainless or cold roll. SCS steel is ideal for sheet metal fabrication and resists rusting.