Paderborn Salzburg headquartered Europe’s leading tube maker BENTELER Steel/Tube has succeeded in producing seamless tubes from BENTELER SMARTCUT free-cutting steel for the first time. BENTELER SMARTCUT combines the advantages of highly machinable free-cutting steels with the geometry advantages of a tube and thus optimizes machining. The product line of seamless steel tubes in hot-rolled as well as cold drawn types offers optimized solutions for various applications. In this way, economical machining can be realized both for smaller quantities and for large-scale series production. Due to the production of the steel in an electric arc furnace, a reduction of the CO2 footprint by more than 70% can be achieved with BENTELER SMARTCUT compared to bar steel from the blast furnace route. In addition, the tubes are guaranteed lead-free in accordance with the EU REACH Regulation to protect the environment.With BENTELER SMARTCUT, BENTELER Steel/Tube is using the class of free-cutting steels for the first time for a product family of specific tube solutions. With various sulfur contents starting from at least 0.10% sulfur - about three to five times the usual 0.015 to 0.035% for machining tubes - BENTELER SMARTCUT tubes have excellent machinability. This means that the tubes can be processed better and more economically. In addition, material savings of more than 50% compared to steel bars are not uncommon. The use of BENTELER SMARTCUT tubes made of free-cutting steel allows significant productivity increases to be achieved in the machining industryTogether with steel distribution partners and customers, BENTELER Steel/Tube provides application-specific, seamless tube solutions for machining companies, machine builders and manufacturers of precision workpieces with BENTELER SMARTCUT.Free-cutting steel has been used for a long time as a solid material, mostly in the form of steel bar in the machining industry. This is because the material properties of free-cutting steel with a high sulfur concentration offer advantages in machining operations such as turning, milling or drilling. This manifests itself in faster, more productive machining with better chip formation and longer tool life.
Paderborn Salzburg headquartered Europe’s leading tube maker BENTELER Steel/Tube has succeeded in producing seamless tubes from BENTELER SMARTCUT free-cutting steel for the first time. BENTELER SMARTCUT combines the advantages of highly machinable free-cutting steels with the geometry advantages of a tube and thus optimizes machining. The product line of seamless steel tubes in hot-rolled as well as cold drawn types offers optimized solutions for various applications. In this way, economical machining can be realized both for smaller quantities and for large-scale series production. Due to the production of the steel in an electric arc furnace, a reduction of the CO2 footprint by more than 70% can be achieved with BENTELER SMARTCUT compared to bar steel from the blast furnace route. In addition, the tubes are guaranteed lead-free in accordance with the EU REACH Regulation to protect the environment.With BENTELER SMARTCUT, BENTELER Steel/Tube is using the class of free-cutting steels for the first time for a product family of specific tube solutions. With various sulfur contents starting from at least 0.10% sulfur - about three to five times the usual 0.015 to 0.035% for machining tubes - BENTELER SMARTCUT tubes have excellent machinability. This means that the tubes can be processed better and more economically. In addition, material savings of more than 50% compared to steel bars are not uncommon. The use of BENTELER SMARTCUT tubes made of free-cutting steel allows significant productivity increases to be achieved in the machining industryTogether with steel distribution partners and customers, BENTELER Steel/Tube provides application-specific, seamless tube solutions for machining companies, machine builders and manufacturers of precision workpieces with BENTELER SMARTCUT.Free-cutting steel has been used for a long time as a solid material, mostly in the form of steel bar in the machining industry. This is because the material properties of free-cutting steel with a high sulfur concentration offer advantages in machining operations such as turning, milling or drilling. This manifests itself in faster, more productive machining with better chip formation and longer tool life.
