Bars and rods are round or angularly formed long products with cross-sections up to 240x320 mm² with a wide variety of uses in rolling and forging: as a starting product for wire rod and sections and for automotive forgings such as connecting rods and steel rails; generator and turbine shafts in energy technology; as end products in bridge building and shipbuilding and in equipment manufacturing and tank construction. The demands on their mechanical characteristics are as varied as their applications: from high tensile for structural materials to ductile for subsequent forming processes.
 
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