Tapping Siemens-Martin furnace. Most of the steel produced by Sandviken is now open hearth steel Gun barrel blanks; Steel for the motor car, aeroplane and allied trades; Cold rolled steel in strips, soft and capable of being hardened, hardened and unhardened, polished and unpolished; rolled in widths to 450 mm. (18") max., and to 0.03 mm. (0012") min. thickness. Cold rolled steel in strips SANDVIK Brands Uses of steel in strips Stamping and pressing of every description; flexible metal hose, galvanized and ungalvanized; bicycle parts, such as rims, chains, etc., pens, bush stays, galvanized and ungalvanized; clock springs; talking machine springs; springs for door-checks; rulers; measuring tapes; lace bars; safety razor-blades; Saws: bandsaws, cross cut saws, gangsaw-blades, handsaws, carpenter saws, web saws, hack saw blades, etc. Power transmission belts, etc. Cold drawn steel wire Brands Some specialities Saws Springs Pipe and tube steel Cold drawn steel wire, soft and capable of being hardened, hardened and unhardened, polished and unpolished; and so-called silversteel drill rods for twist drills, etc. SANDVIK Box-strapping wire; Fish hook wire; Wire for sewing and knitting machine needles, etc.; Wire for link-chain bolts and nuts; Wire for the watch, clock and allied trades, such as wire for screws, journal studs, tune wire; Seat spring wire, Piano wire; Wire for screw machines; Brush wire; Wheel spoke wire; Wire for ball bearing balls; »Paragon>> flat umbrella wire; Flexus; Finished »Paragon» umbrella wire, fluted; Silversteel, compressed and not compressed. Saws, branded Bandsaws for wood and metal; Cross cut saws; Gangsaw-blades; Hand saws, Web saws, etc. (but not circular saws). Also, sugar cane knives; Safety razor-blades, perforated and plain but unground; Splitting knives for the leather trade, hardened and unhardened; Barbed wire for the textile trade. Springs, branded Main springs incl. the smallest kinds of watch springs; Springs for other industrial purposes, but not spiral springs. Steel Belt Conveyors Special characteristics of Sandvik Steel Products The Sandvik pipe and tube steel is characterized by great insensitiveness to corrosion in addition to the other valuable properties it possesses. On this account it has found an ever widened sphere of utility in the navies of many countries as well as for marine, locomotive, and stationary boilers in general. Rock drill steel is one of the greatest Sandvik specialities, and is well known and appreciated by mining engineers of all countries. Rock dril steel Tool steel and File steel of the Sandvik brands have acquired a fine reputation and have a ready sale in all industrial countries. Tool steel for the motor car trade, etc. A department in which Sandviken has gained exceedingly satisfactory results is Special steels the manufacture of special steels for the motor car, aeroplane and allied trades. The adaptability of the works to new conditions in engineering is amply borne out by the success achieved in supplying these trades with their requirements of special materials. Cold rolled steel in strips, and Cold drawn wire is produced for multitudinous branches of manufacturing, and is a field in which Sandviken has taken a leading place from the start. The demand from abroad for these products has shown a steady increase. To this department belong the Sandvik Steel Belts for power transmission which have ousted ropes and leather belts in a great many places on account of their immensely greater efficiency. Cold rolled strip steel, cold drawn wire Steel belts for power transmission The Sandvik Steel Belt Conveyors are coming into more and more frequent use for the Conveyors conveyance of coal, cement, ores, concentrate, suger-beet pulp, etc. These flexible conveyor belts are very cheap and durable for such service. They consume very little power, and a further advantage is the ease with which they may be unloaded. By merely fitting a scraper device the material can be deflected from the belt at any desired point, and the scraper has no injurious effect on the belt. >Paragon >> wire Silver steel Saws Another large department is the one where the fluted umbrella wire, so-called >>Paragon» wire, is made. Sandviken is one of the largest producers in the world of this article. Sandvik silver steel is characterized by very great homogeneity, no surface decarbonisation, and accuracy of dimensions. It is used by a great number of Swedish and foreign makers of fine drills, such as dentists' drills, twist drills, spindles and shafts for fine machines and instruments, etc. Of Sandvik saws it may be said that the material available is well-nigh ideal; the cutting power being both great and lasting. As the saws, besides, are well designed and finished, the popularity they have gained in Sweden and elsewhere is easy to account for. Laboratory at Sandviken. Recently fitted up regardless of expense for obtaining the most up-to-date appliances and equipment. The company's engineers and metallurgists are provided with the best means to control the production and to prosecute research work FORSBACKA JERNVERKS AKTIEBOLAG (FORSBACKA STEEL WORKS Co., LTD) Cable Address: Forsbacka, Gefle Chief shipping ports: Gefle, Stockholm and Gothenburg Codes used: A. B. C. 5th and 6th Ed. Manufacturers of High Grade Steels and Steel Products. The Forsbacka Steel Works, situated near the Baltic seaport of Gefle, is of ancient Historical date. Historical records show that it was established in the beginning of the seventeenth century which makes it one of the oldest Swedish iron works. Very early in that century there was a bar-iron forge in operation, and a charter was obtained in 1651 to install still another forge. The Forsbacka works has been enlarged and improved and rebuilt from time to time in the course of its history, and is now rated as one of the most important works in Sweden for the manufacture of high grade steel and steel products. The works now comprise the following departments, viz:Blast Furnace department with 4 furnaces, roasting furnaces, etc. Steel Works with steel furnaces for manufacture of high-quality steel, Bessemer plant with 2 converters, Martin plant with 3 open hearth steel furnaces. Rolling Mills comprising ingot mill, medium merchant mill, universal mill, small merchant mill, tube-billet mill, and hollow drill steel mill. Forging shops with a large number of steam and pneumatic power hammers, and forge presses. Steel Foundry. Machine Shop and Iron Foundry, mainly for the requirements of the works. Laboratory fitted up with the latest appliances for carrying out all kinds of tensile strength tests, metallographic, microscopic, micro-photographic, and metallurgical Works departments |