Iron & Steel Supplies

Start with the ambient temperature the assembly actually lives in, then the exposure risk. Heat resistant covers handle higher ambient temperature, fire sleeve adds protection against splash and radiant load, and stainless overbraid works where abrasion comes with the heat. The fitting and the sleeve have to be rated as well as the hose, or you have protected the middle and left both ends exposed. Send us the temperature, the pressure and a photo of the routing.

Usually not directly. Servo and proportional valves need fluid cleanliness held tight, often around ISO 16/14/11, and mill environments push against that constantly. Worn rod seals draw scale and cooling water past the gland, a plugged reservoir breather pulls dust in on every stroke, and filtration that was right at commissioning is undersized after a rebuild. Iron and steel supplies will not fix contamination, so fix the ingress path first, then the filtration, then look at the hose.

Attack it where it enters. Rod wipers and gland seals on cylinders exposed to scale and spray, a proper reservoir breather rather than an open fill cap, and filtration sized for the actual duty rather than the original drawing. Offline kidney loop filtration on a big reservoir does more than upsizing the return filter. Sample the fluid on a schedule so you have a trend line instead of a guess when a valve starts hunting.

Spiral. A shear is an impulse machine, and every cut sends a pressure spike back up the line. Two-wire braid can satisfy the working pressure calculation and still fail in months under that cycling, while four or six spiral is built for impulse. While you are in there, check accumulator precharge, because a flat accumulator turns every cut into a hammer blow. A spare relief cartridge belongs on the iron and steel supplies list here.

Yes, and the better move is to send the list before the outage starts. We stage the builds ahead of time so your crews pick up finished assemblies instead of waiting on a crimper at three in the morning. Standard assemblies are same-day if something turns up that was not on the list, and mobile crimping covers lines that cannot come off the equipment. Send the outage dates and we will stage the iron and steel supplies ahead.

Yes. We design and build custom hydraulic power units in house, sized to your flow, pressure, duty cycle and the space you have. Send a schematic, a specification, or just the machine and the duty you need it to do, and our team will work it out with you. We build the reservoir, pump, valving and assemblies as one package so you are not integrating parts from four suppliers on the plant floor.

We ship across Canada from stocked inventory, and both Ontario locations are open for counter pickup. Concord is at 8520 Jane St Units 7 to 9 and Barrie is at 740 Huronia Rd Unit 7. For plants outside Ontario, tell us your outage date when you order so we can confirm what is on the shelf, route the shipment to land ahead of the window, and hold the iron and steel supplies for it.

Yes. Fill out the credit application on our site to open terms. If your plant consumes the same builds every month, send us the list and we will hold the hose, couplings and adaptors so those assemblies are pulled and ready rather than quoted from scratch. Purchasing gets one supplier, one invoice and a predictable lead time, and standing stock means your iron and steel supplies are pulled instead of quoted each time.

It depends what you are washing. Cold water at good volume handles scale, dust and general washdown around the mill. Hot water pays for itself on oil and grease, so lube rooms, gearbox areas, roll shops and anywhere hydraulic fluid has soaked into concrete. Plants that clean both usually buy the hot water unit and run it cold when heat is not needed. We will quote the washer alongside the rest of your iron and steel supplies.