stainless steel

Stainless Steel: The 400 Series

By |2024-10-08T15:15:25+00:00September 20th, 2024|forging, manufacturing, stainless steel, steel|

One Alloy. Many Uses As we previously mentioned, the stainless steel that Harry Brearley discovered was what came to be known as type 420, or what we call a martensitic stainless steel. Or a hardenable stainless steel that may be hardened and tempered, as are normal carbon or alloy steels. There are also

Stainless Steel: All That Glitters…

By |2024-09-04T19:40:17+00:00September 4th, 2024|forging, manufacturing, stainless steel, steel|

Origins Stainless steel was first recognized as a commercial proposition in 1913, by Harry Brearley, a metallurgist in Sheffield, England, after he noticed that certain gun barrels containing around 13% chromium didn’t rust when they were left outside. What he’d discovered was a steel that approximates to what we know today as type

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