Steel bars and wire rods from JFE

A Challenging Spirit , Flexibility , Sincerity

With With advanced advanced technologies, technologies, JFE JFE offers offers steel steel bars bars and and wire wire rods rods that that support support our our society society in in various various fields. fields.

Advantages of JFEs steel bars and wire rods

High-cleanliness steel with the blast furnace-converter method
The combination of the blast furnace, hot-metal pretreatment, top and bottom blown converter, ladle rening, and strongly-stirred vacuum degassing processes has enabled the production of high-cleanliness steel.

Rolled round bars with the worlds largest diameter

We can manufacture round bars with a diameter of up to 420 mm 750 mm of sizes are available.

Large-diameter round bars with a 5-mm pitch

We offer 95 to 180 mm diameter round bars with a 5-mm pitch.

Steel bars and wire rods with high accuracy and flexibility in dimension
The 4-roll mill developed by JFE provides high dimensional accuracy. In addition, we can manufacture mid-size steel bars and wire rods with a 0.1-mm pitch.

CONTENTS
Pages 1 and 2 Pages 3 to 6 Pages 7 and 8 Pages 9 to 14 Pages 15 and 16 Pages 17 and 18 Advantages of JFE s steel bars and wire rods Typical application Production bases Manufacturing processes and equipment Standard dimensions and bundling Research and development

Excellent quality
Automatic aw detection of round billet surfaces has enabled the manufacture of steel bars and wire rods that have high surface quality. In addition, the adoption of round billet peeling has enabled the manufacture of awless wire rods.

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Typical application <automobiles>

Crankshaft Steering Shock absorber

Steering
Rack bar Pinion gear

Shock absorber Engine

Crankshaft Connecting rod Rocker arm shaft Camshaft Piston pin Ring gear

Stabilizer

We support next-generation automobiles with high quality steel products.

Our steel products have been used for various key security parts from the heart of an automobile, the engine, to transmissions, suspensions, and so on. We offer advanced steel bars and wire rods that ensure driver safety and contribute to the development of lightweight and energy-saving vehicles.
Ball joint

Ball joint Bearing

Joint yoke
Usage
Carbon steels for machine structural use

Grade
S10C to S58C

Typical application
Automobile parts (crankshafts, connecting rods, gears, shafts, constant-velocity joints, hub units, ball joints, etc.) Mechanical parts (gears, shafts, bolts, pins, cylinder rods, etc.) Parts for ships and vehicles Bearings, pins and mechanical parts Alternatives for thermally refined steel products for machine structural use High strength bolts Bolts, nuts, rivets, and mechanical parts Piano wires, oil-hardened and tempered wires, springs, PC wires, and PC stranded wires Wire ropes, springs, washers, stranded wires, and hose wires Hoops Differential gear Constant velocity joint

Bearing

Alloy steels for machine structural use

SCr415 to 445 (H) SCM415 to 822 (H) SNCM220 to 815 (H) SUJ2 SUJ3 NH45MV NH48MV SAE10B21 KF10T SWRCH12A to 22A SWRCH10K to 50K SWRS62A to 82A SWRS62B to 82B SWRH42A to 82A SWRH42B to 82B SD785

Transmission
Mission gear Differential gear Output shaft Shift fork CVT pulley

Hub unit Constant velocity joint

Bearing steels

Micro alloying steels Wire rods for high strength bolts Wire rods for cold forging Piano wire rods High carbon steel wire rods Wires for high strength hoops

Hub unit

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Typical application
<construction and industrial machines>
Wind power generator
Pin

Power shovel

Bearing Gear

Hydraulic cylinder rod

Turn ring

Shaft

Our steel bars and wire rods have been used in a wide range of industrial fields including wind power generators and construction machines.
Our steel bars and wire rods have been used in a wide range of elds including wind power generators, which have been receiving increased attention as a clean energy source, construction machines such as power shovels and dump trucks, ship engines, and industrial machines such as injection molding machines.

Reduction gear

Tie rod Piston rod

Engine bolt

Connecting rod

Injection molding machine

Ship engine

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Production bases

JFE Steel Corporation West Japan Works is the worlds largest and most powerful steelworks that produces not only steel bars and wire rods, but also steel sheets and plates, electrical steel sheets, and shape steel products.
Our production bases consist of two large-scale coastal steelworks located in eastern and western Japan and Chita Works, which produces pipes and tubes, and these bases effectively produce high quality iron and steel products with state-of-the-art technologies. Each Works has a Steel Research Laboratory that supports JFE Steels technologies.

Sendai Works, JFE Bars & Shapes Corporation

JFE Groups eastern base for bars and wire rods

West Japan Works

(Kurashiki and Fukuyama Areas)

East Japan Works

Steelworks specialized in high-grade steel products, such as steel sheets and plates, stainless steel, and iron powder

Chita Works
World-class steel pipe works

Electrolytic Galvanizing Mill/Continuous Galvanizing Mill Cold Strip Mill No. 1 Hot Strip Mill Large Shape Mill No. 2 Hot Strip Mill No. 2 Steelmaking Plant Coal Yard General Administration Office Surface Finishing (Treatment) Mill/Cold Strip Mill Electrolytic Tinning Mill Steel Research Laboratory

Wire Rod and Bar Mill

General Administration Ofce Electrical Steel Mill Steel Research Laboratory

Plate Mill Coke Plant Hot Strip Mill

Large Shape Mill

Billet Mill
No. 2 Welding Pipe Mill (Spiral Pipes)

The Kurashiki Area of the West Japan Works has the good fortune of being located in the Setouchi Area. This area has a mild climate and faces the Seto Inland Sea, which is rich in water resources and is called a natural canal, and it also has deep harbors. The site area is about 11,000,000 m2, about 250 times that of the Tokyo Dome. Steel bars and wire rods are produced mainly in the Kurashiki Area.

No. 3 Steelmaking Plant

Nos. 2 to 5 Blast Furnaces No. 1 Welding Pipe Mill (UOE Pipes)

Lime Plant No. 2 Steelmaking Plant No. 1 Steelmaking Plant Sintering Plant

Continuous Galvanizing Mill Cold Strip Mill/Electrolytic Galvanizing Mill Coke Plant No. 4 Sintering Plant No. 5 Sintering Plant External Coating Plant Iron Ore Yard Internal Coating Plant Plate Mill Hot-metal Pretreatment Center

Iron Ore Yard

Coke Oven Nos. 2 to 4 Blast Furnaces

Coal Yard

Fukuyama Area layout

Kurashiki Area layout

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Manufacturing processes and equipment

<Overview>

Advance process technologies enable the production of high quality products.

Sintering plant
Iron ore and limestone are heated and hardened to form sintered ore.

Blast furnace
Iron ore is melted and reduced to pig iron.

Steel converter
After the pig iron is poured into the furnace, oxygen is blown in to remove carbon and refine to molten steel.

Continuous casting
The molten steel is continuously cast into blooms.

Wiredrawing
Bloom

Billet rolling
Iron ore
The blooms are rolled out to billets or round bars.

Cold-drawn wire rods

(bearing steel)

Limestone

EMS(Electromagnetic stirring)

Vacuum degassing Ladle rening

Coal

Steel bar and wire rod rolling

Billets are rolled out to steel bars and wire rods.

Raw material yard

Unloaded raw materials are stored.

Coke oven
Coke is manufactured from roasted coal at high temperature in coke plant.

Hot-metal pretreatment
Oxygen and lime are blown in to hot metal to remove sulfur and phosphorus of impurities.

[Secondary rening]
N o n - m e t a l l i c i n c l u s i o n s a re further removed from the molten steel to be higher quality.

Ingot casting
The molten steel is cast with ingot moulds.

Ingot

Round bars Round bars

95 to 420mm 16 to 90mm

Bars-in coil
16 to 38mm 12.7 to 27mm

Square bars
250 to 750mm

Wire rods
4.2 to 19mm

Steel converter

Ladle refining equipment

Vacuum degassing equipment

Continuous casting machine

Equipment used in No. 1 Steelmaking Plant

Furnace Steel converter (LD-KGC method) 200 t/operation 200 t/operation 200 t/operation 4 strand* 3 units 1 unit 2 units 1 unit Ladle refining equipment Secondary rening equipment Vacuum degassing equipment Continuous casting Fully curved continuous casting machine Ingot casting Bottom casting equipment Blast furnace Ingot casting machine Billet mill Wire rod and bar mill

Ingot weight 12 t/24 t 2 units

* Bloom dimensions: 300 mm (thickness) 400 mm (width), and 400 mm (thickness) 560 mm (width)

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Manufacturing processes and equipment

<Billet Mill>
Break down mill Hot scarfer

Making full use of state-of-the-art equipment, we manufacture high quality round and square bars.
VH mill VH slow cooling box Magnetic leakage flux tester Automatic ultrasonic tester

Bloom renement

Cold marking stamper Labeler Bundling machine

Automatic ultrasonic tester

Peeling machine Bloom grinder Demagnetizer Cold saw Eddy current aw tester Nos. 1 to 4 grinders No. 5 grinder Automatic ultrasonic tester Soaking pit Hot scarfer Shear Hot saw Slow cooling box Reheating furnace Hot saw Dimensional measuring instrument Cooling bed Magnetic leakage ux tester Shot blast No. 1 press VH slow cooling box No. 1 magnetic particle tester No. 2 magnetic particle tester Debaring machine Cooling bed No. 2 press Slow cooling furnace

VH mill Hot marking stamper Rough rolling mill Turn table

Hot marking stamper

Products
Round bars Square bars 95 to 420 mm 250 to 750 mm

Equipment used in Billet Mill

Rolling mills Break down mill (high-lift dual reversible system) Finishing rolling mill (dual continuous type, V-H) Press straightener 1 unit 4 stands 2 units 1 unit 2 units 2 units 5 units 1 unit 1 unit

HCCV

Magnetic leakage flux tester Automatic ultrasonic tester

Materials
Continuously cast blooms 300x400 mm / 400x560 mm Ingots 12 t / 24 t

Inspection equipment

Magnetic particle tester Billet grinder Peeling machine Eddy current flaw tester

Nominal capacity: 1,440,000 tons annually

HCCV

Reheating furnace

Soaking pit

Peeling machine

Eddy current flaw tester

Bloom grinder

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Manufacturing processes and equipment

<Wire Rod and Bar Mill>
Block mill

With the worlds most advanced rolling and control technologies, we effectively manufacture various types of steel bars and wire rods.
KSW mill (4-roll mill for wire rods) Stelmore Pallet carrier for coils

Products
Wire rods Bars-in coils Steel bars Square wire rods Deformed wire rods Deformed steel bars 4.2 to 19.0 mm 16.0 to 38.0 mm 16.0 to 90.0 mm 12.7 to 27.0 D6 to 16 D16 to 51

Equipment used in Wire Rod and Bar Mill

Rough rolling mill (H-V system) Intermediate rolling mill (H-V system) Rolling mills Finishing rolling mill (H-V system) KS mill (4-roll mill for steel bars) Wire rod finishing rolling mill (block mill) KSW mill (4-roll mill for steel bars) Straightener 8 units 6 units 4 units 2 stands 10 stands 3 stands 2 units 2 units 2 units 1 unit

Water-cooling zone Hot eddy current aw tester Block mill Laying head Stelmore conveyor

KSW mill (4-roll mill for wire rods) Hot eddy current aw tester

Dimensional measuring equipment Weighing machine Unloader

Materials
175 mm Billets 150 mm

Inspection equipment

Magnetic leakage flux tester Automatic ultrasonic tester Magnetic particle tester

Water-cooling zone

Hook conveyor

Nominal capacity: 580,000 tons annually

Pouring reel Automatic ultrasonic tester Shot blast Burr remover Reheating furnace A B Dimensional measuring instrument KS mill (4-roll mill for steel bars) C D

Transfer machine Bundling machine

Cold saw Water-cooling zone Shear Weighing machine Billet grinder with the magnetic particle tester
A Compact mill B Rough rolling mill D Finishing rolling mill

Shear Water-cooling zone

Cooling bed shear Hot eddy current aw tester

Cooling bed Bundling machine 2-roll straightener Chamfering machine Labeler Magnetic particle tester Grinder maintenance area

Inspection table
C Intermediate rolling mill

Cold shear Bundling machine

Edge heater Shot blast Batch-type heat treatment furnace Automatic ultrasonic tester Magnetic leakage ux tester

Reheating furnace

Rough rolling mill

KS mill (4-roll mill for steel bars)

No. 2 straight bar refinement line

Magnetic leakage flux tester

Pallet carrier for steel bars

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Standard dimensions and bundling

1. Standard dimensions (mm in dia.)
Wire rods and bars-in coils
Round bars Square bars

We respond flexibly to customers needs in length, diameter, etc.

3. Examples of indication and standard inspection cards

Round bars Square bars Length: 3.5 to 12.5m 180 350 190 360 200 370 210 380 220 390 230 400 240 410 250 420 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340

Steel bars

Wire rods and bars-in coils

5.5 6 6.35 6.5 7 8 9 9.5 10 11 12 12.7 13 14 15 16 17 18

Mid-size

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 38

12.7 14 16 18 19 19.3 20 22 24 25 27

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

Length: 5.0 to 7.0m 33 34 36 37 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 52

53 54 55 56 58 60 62 63 65 68 70 73 75 78 80 85 90

95 100 105 110 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 150 155 160 165 170 175

250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700 750

Metal plates

(1 piece per coil) Inspection card (1 piece per coil)

wire rods and bars-in coils with a 0.1-mm pitch may also be available. Please contact us. Round bars with a diameter of 4.2 to 5.5 mm may also be available. Please contact us.

Round Please

bars with a diameter of up to 90 mm and a 1.0-mm pitch may also be available. Please contact us. contact us about any lengths not listed above.

Steel bars

2. Bundling
Wire rods and bars-in coils
Coil size Coil size (mm in dia.) Standard coil weight (kg) Coil diameter (mm) Coiling direction Coil bundling Number of Standard coil weight (kg) coils bundled Bundling method

4.2 to 19 16 to 38

2,100 2,100

Inner: 850 or more Outer: 1,350 Inner: 1,000 or more Outer: 1,400

2,100
Clockwise

Single coil Two coils

Four positions with hoop bands Four positions * with hoop bands
(A) Label for round bars with a diameter of 30 to 90 mm* (either end: 1 piece per bar) (B) Label for round bars with a diameter of 95 mm or more (either end: 1 piece per bar) (C) Label for square bars (either end: 1 piece per bar)

1,000
(Divided coil)

Steel bars
Size (mm in dia.) Standard bundling weight Bundling method

*For divided coils, two positions with iron wires

16 to 120 125 to 420

Four positions with iron wires Not bundled

label is provided for bars with a diameter of less than 30 mm. *No steel bars with a diameter of 16 to 90 mm, the same inspection *For card as wire rods and bars-in coils are provided (1 piece per bundle).

Products

Wire rods and bars-in coils (4.2 to 38 mm)

Steel bars (16 to 90 mm)

Steel bars (95 to 120 mm)

Steel bars (125 to 420 mm)

Square bars (250 to 750 mm)

Square wire rods (12.7 to 27.0 mm)

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Research and development

Our world-leading R&D system is pioneering new steel bar and wire rod technologies.

Delayed fracture strength/MPa

We propose total solutions ranging from material development to products.

JFE Steel Research Laboratory is one of the worlds largest research laboratories (in the steel industry).
Control of inclusions and segregation Dimensional precision, temperature and heat treatment analysis, and prediction of material properties

Development of high performance steel bars

We improved the fatigue strength of components by integrating surface technologiessuch as carburizing, quenching and induction quenchingwith steel composition design technologies in order to offer products with optimally controlled metallic structures that meet customers needs.

High Maraging steel

Fine austenite steel

SCM440

Low Low

Conventional steels Tensile strength/MPa High

Fine austenite steel produced with high frequency induction quenching technology shows excellent delayed fracture strength (as measured by constant-load delayed fracture testing equipment).

Steelmaking Research Dept.

Tubular Products Casting Research Dept.

Machining process analysis technology

Creation of new technologies through the integration of different technologies
Specialty steel is machined and thermally treated by customers before use. We work to develop steel products that can be efciently machined and thermally treated by customers. In addition, we work to develop steel products that do not require thermal treatment for the purpose of saving energy. Furthermore, we promote the elimination of the thermal rening process from the manufacturing processes of steel bars in order to contribute to the protection of the global environment.

High frequency heating coils

Punching
Analytical software DEFORMTM 3D (PC) DEFORMTM HT

Rolling & Processing Research Dept. Automotive Sheet Products Research Dept.

Bar & Wire Research Dept.

Iron Powder & Magnetic Materials Research Dept.

Challenging research aimed at the development of ultimate products including processes and analyses

Crankshaft

Before forging
Examples of analysis of the temperature distribution of the crankshaft pin.

During forging

After forging

Equivalent strain

Example of analysis of the strain distribution of the forged constant-velocity joint.

Analysis & Characterization Research Dept. Other research departments

JFE Steel Corporation

Steel Research Laboratory

Analysis of precipitates, inclusions and structures

Functional/structural evaluation technologies

In order to respond to customers needs we have many kinds of testing equipment for evaluating various mechanical properties.

Rolling contact fatigue tester

Test piece

State-of-the-art transmission electron microscope

Ultrasonic fatigue tester

Actual torsional fatigue tester

Roller pitting fatigue tester

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