TimkenSteel opens technology center for SBQ steel research

Canton, Ohio-based TimkenSteel, a provider of customized alloy steel products and services, has opened a $5 million technology center at its Northeast Ohio corporate campus for the development of clean special bar quality (SBQ) steel and new steel grades.

The 20,000-sq.-ft. technology center features a dozen laboratories, including a brand-new scanning electron microscope, an ultrasonic lab, a physical process modeling lab, and additional labs where metallurgists and materials scientists can test steel and find inclusions less than the width of a hair.