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Bars for superior machinability and greater efficiency

We produce high-performance stainless steel bar in an industry-leading variety of grades and shapes. Our bar offering includes Prodec grades for superior machinability and a wide range of grades for demanding applications.

Benefits

Why Outokumpu Bar

  • We offer a wide range of grades and shapes
  • Our Prodec range offers superior machinability, longer tool life and superior quality in terms of tolerance and surface
  • Nordic bar stock provides quick deliveries for both round and shaped bars
  • We offer value-added services including tailored grades, polishing, cut to length and eddy current testing
  • We produce our bars in a wide range of, austenitic, duplex, heat resistant, and precipitation hardening stainless steels 

Attributes 

  • Round bars are available from 6 to 190 mm / 3/16 – 15 inch
  • Hexagon bars from 8–70 mm / 5/16–2¾ inch and square bars in square bars from 8–75 mm / 5/16–3 inch
  • Prodec bars are available in 304L/4301, 316L/4404, 303/4305 and 17-4PH Grades

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Our high-performance stainless steel bar products are produced in an industry-leading variety of grades and shapes. Our bar products come in rounds, hexagons and squares.

For superior machinability, longer tool life and superior quality in terms of tolerance and surface, choose our Prodec range.

Our bar products are suitable for a variety of applications. These include the likes of flangers, valves, fittings, couplings, seals, shafts, blots and nuts, parts on pumps, all the way to hydraulic cylinders. For superior machinability, faster machining speed, longer tool life and superior quality in terms of tolerance and surface, choose our Prodec range.

We offer also value-added services including tailored grades, polishing, cut to length and eddy current testing. Our experts have in-depth knowledge about the material needs of the automotive, oil and gas, and chemical industries, as well as industrial components and consumer goods.

Our end-to-end approach, from melting to testing, ensures that we can offer bar products with unrivalled consistency, delivery performance, and technical support.

 

Round bars

We produce our round bars in a wide range of austenitic, duplex, heat resistant, and precipitation hardening stainless steels. For the need of superior machinability, choose our Prodec range.

Our round bars are available from 6 to 230 mm / 3/16 – 15 inches. In addition, our Prodec bar is available in 304L/4301, 316L/4404, 303/4305 and 17-4PH Grades.

 

Shaped bars

Outokumpu and Böllinghaus Steel offer stainless steel hexagon bars from 8–70 mm / 5/16–2¾ inch and square bars in square bars from 8–75 mm / 5/16–3 inch. These are available in US and Nordic countries through Outokumpu stocks and elsewhere in Europe through Böllinghaus Steel.

 

Expertise in production

Outokumpu experts have an in-depth knowledge about the material needs of the automotive, oil and gas, and chemical industries, as well as industrial components and consumer goods. We offer also value-added services including tailored grades, polishing, cut to length and eddy current testing.

Outokumpu long products units have extensive expertise in production of stainless steel and can offer technical advice for the use of stainless steel. High quality is also guaranteed by a number of certificates.

  • ISO 9001 & 14001 – TÜV Nord
  • BS OHSAS 18001 – TÜV Nord
  • AD 2000 – Merkblatt WO/TRD 100 – TÜV Nord
  • PED 97/23/EC
  • ASME MO QSC 713
  • LCS - Pratt & Whitney’s
  • Approvals from DNV, Germanischer Lloyd, Lloyd’s Register and Norsok

Our dedicated teams are always easy to get in touch with. We’re here to support you all the way from materials selection to end use, helping you to get the best result possible from our stainless steels.

 

Value to our customers

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Bar offering

  Round Hex Square
  Dimension inches 3⁄16-1 1/2-1 CFA >1-33⁄4 2-31/2 >31/2-7 >7-10 >10-15 1/4"-1" 1"-11/2" 3/8"- 7/8"
  Condition CDA CFA CFA HRART HRART HRART HRART      
Prodec 303 x x x x x x x x x x
  303 HST® x             x    
  304L x x x x x x x x x x
  304H x x x x x          
  316L x x x x x x x x x x
  316H x x x x x          
  317L x x x x x x        
  17-4   x x x x x        
Moda 430   x x x x          
  430F   x x x x          
Forta LDX 2101®   x x x            
  2304     x x            
  2205 +2     x x x          
  2507     x x x          
Ultra 254 SMO®     x x x          
  253 MA   x x x            
  904L     x x x x        
  XM-19     xB xB x          
Dura 410   x x x x          
  416   x x x x          
  420   xA x x x          
  440C   xA x x            
  15-5 ESR   x x x x     x x  
  N60   xA xB x x          
  XM-25   xA x x x          
Therma 309   x x x x          
  310   x x x x x        
  321 x x x x x x   x x x
  347 x x x x x x   x x x
  304 HN     xB xB            

 

Items shown are produced regularly for quick delivery from stock or within competitive industry lead-times.

CDA=Cold Drawn Annealed CFA=Cold Finished Annealed HRART=Hot Rolled Annealed Rough Turned

A: Alloy only available down to 1/4" B: HS available from 13/8" to 31/2"

  Round Hexagon Square
  Dimension mm 6–32 70–170 75–230 8-24 8-23
  Condition Cold drawn, ground Peeled or machined Black Cold drawn, ground Cold drawn, ground
  Tolerances h7, h8, h9 EN 10060, ISO 286-2 k12, k13 10088-3 h11 h7, h8, h9
Prodec 303/4305 up to 27 100-170 x x x
Prodec 304L/4307 x x x x x
Prodec 316L/4404 x x x x x
Prodec 17-4PH 6 - 20mm x x 8-20mm 8-20mm
Core 304/4301 x x x x x
Core 304LN/4311 x - - x x
Core 304L/4307 x x x x x
Core 321/4541 x x x x x
Core 304Cu/4567 x - - - -
Supra 316/4401 x x x x x
Supra 316L/4404 x x x x x
Supra 316Ti/4571 x x 75-200 mm x x
Supra 316/4435 x x 75-200 mm x x
Supra 316L/4436 x x x x x
Supra 316LN/4429 - - - - -
Supra 316Cu/4578 - - - - -
Forta DX 2205 - x 75-240 mm - -
Forta SDX 2507 - - 75-240 mm - -
Forta SDX 100 - - 75-240 mm - -
Ultra 904L x x 75-200 mm - -
Ultra 254 SMO x - 75-180 mm - -
Ultra XM-19 - - - - -
Ultra 317L x x 75-180 mm - -
Dura 420/4021 x x 75-180 mm x x
Dura 410/4006 x x 75-180 mm x x
Dura 17-4PH 6-20mm x 75-200 mm 8-20mm 8-20mm
Dura 416/4005 - x 75-200 mm - -
Therma 253 MA x x x - -
Therma 321H/4878   x x - -
Therma 4828 - x x - -
Therma 309S/4833 - - - - -
Therma 314/4841 x - - - -
Therma 347H/4550 x x x x x
Therma 4886 x - - - -
Therma 304H/4948 - x x - -

 

For the Prodec grades in European market IMS group acts as exclusive distributor in most of the Central European countries, which enables our peeled and black round bars to be available from stock for quick delivery within Europe.

Our stock in Sweden offers a select range of grades with quick deliveries. Other dimensions, grades and standards are available through mill deliveries with longer lead times. Download brochure.

  Round Hexagon Square Flat
  Dimension mm 6–25 30–65   30–65 70–190 8-22 8-70 8-16 15x8 to 110 x 40
  Condition Cold drawn, ground Bright bar  Hot rolled, peeled Hot rolled, peeled Cold drawn Hot rolled Cold drawn Hot rolled Cold drawn
  Tolerances h7, h8, h9  h9 k11  EN 10060, ISO 286-2 k12, k13 h11 EN 10059 h11 EN 10058 h11
Prodec 304L/4307 x  x  x x x x x x x
  316L/4404 x  x  x x x x x x x
Core 304/4301 x  x x x x x x x
  304L/4307 x  x  x x x x x x x
Supra 316/4401 x  x  x x x x x x x
  316L/4404 x  x  x x x x x x x

 

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