Carpenterdirect.com Expands With Internet's Largest Selection of Tool Steel; Cutting Services Now Available; Technical Database Searching Simplified.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers WYOMISSING, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 9, 2001 Buying tool steel on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the just got a whole lot easier. Carpenterdirect.com(TM)now offers the Internet's most extensive selection of tool steel online at www.carpenterdirect.com. Sixteen of the most popular grades of tool steel -- 10 cold and hot work grades, two high-speed high-speed adj. 1. Operated or designed for operation at high speed: a high-speed food processor. 2. Taking place at high speed: a high-speed chase. 3. wrought tool steel grades, and four high-speed Micro-Melt(R) tool steel grades -- are available in a variety of shapes and sizes for a total of more than 1,000 different product offerings. These new tool steels complement a wide assortment assortment /as·sort·ment/ (ah-sort´ment) the random distribution of nonhomologous chromosomes to daughter cells in metaphase of the first meiotic division. as·sort·ment n. of stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. , carbon and alloy alloy (ăl`oi, əloi`) [O. Fr.,=combine], substance with metallic properties that consists of a metal fused with one or more metals or nonmetals. steels, aluminum, and brass metals available for purchase on-line 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the Web site. As an added customer convenience, carpenterdirect.com, a business unit of Carpenter Technology Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CRS CRS Course CRS Certified Residential Specialist (real estate certification) CRS Central Reservation System CRS Can't Remember Stuff (polite form) CRS Cost Reduction Strategy CRS Consumer Relations Specialist ), has become the first online specialty metals supplier to offer cutting services for all stainless as well as all of the new tool steel long bar grades. One simple step during the on-line ordering process allows customers to purchase cut-to-order pieces ideally sized for specific machining or production needs. "We are offering a breadth of product and services that is truly unprecedented in steel e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. ," said Scott Myers, general manager of e-business for Carpenter. "As a private exchange, we have a remarkable amount of control over our site, which allows us to mimic the real-life ordering experience and provide a high level of customization." Technical database easier to use Carpenterdirect.com's technical metals database -- the largest and most comprehensive resource of its kind online -- has also been improved with a new alloy search functionality that is quick and easy to use. Users can search metals with different properties, chemistries, treatments and names, for example. Then users can perform side-by-side comparisons, eliminate products from the screen and select sorting options to determine which metal would best fit their needs. The technical database is available for free to all registered users of carpenterdirect.com. These changes mark the fourth major upgrade to carpenterdirect.com since Carpenter launched the site in October. It remains the Internet's only private exchange operated by a specialty steel manufacturer. About carpenterdirect.com Carpenterdirect.com provides user-friendly, one-stop shopping for general tool and machine shop customers and other metals fabricators. The site offers stainless bar, including Carpenter's Project 70(R) stainless machining bar, carbon and alloy steel, tool steel, aluminum and brass. Carpenter Technology is a leading manufacturer and distributor of stainless steel, specialty alloys This is a list of alloys for which an article exists in Wikipedia (or is proposed but not yet written). They are grouped by base metal, in order of increasing atomic number. Within these headings they are in no particular order. , titanium titanium (tītā`nēəm, tĭ–) [from Titan], metallic chemical element; symbol Ti; at. no. 22; at. wt. 47.88; m.p. 1,675°C;; b.p. 3,260°C;; sp. gr. 4.54 at 20°C;; valence +2, +3, or +4. and various engineered products. Carpenter had sales of $1.1 billion in fiscal 2000 (ended June 30, 2000). More information about Carpenter is available at www.cartech.com.
Editor's note:
Tool Steel Alloy Grades Available
Cold and Hot Work High Speed and Powder
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H13 M2
A2 M4
A6 Micro-Melt(R)A11
D2 Micro-Melt(R)A11 LVC
D3 Micro-Melt(R)M4
L6 Micro-Melt(R)T-15
O1
O6
S5
S7
A digital screen capture is available showing the list of tool steel alloys as they appear on carpenterdirect.com. |
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