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Steel Grade Reductions

One of the major ways that AMERIFORM® can reduce your cost is by allowing you to go to a lower grade of steel, thus saving major costs. We work within a growing family of mills and service centers and all are concerned about helping you reduce cost as we are all under the same pressures. They work with us, to work with you, to identify major cost reduction opportunities. You see, it's because of the very unique, patented, engineered abilities of AMERIFORM®, which allows us to do this. Let's look at some case histories:

CASE HISTORIES:

A Tier 1 supplier goes from Cold Rolled to Hot Rolled steel with a saving of 5 cents/lb.

A Tier 1 supplier goes from 46.00% - 48.00% elongation steel on an oil pan which has an abnormally high reject rate to 40.34% elongation steel with a reject rate of under 1% and a savings on steel of 35 cents premium for the higher elongation steel.

A lawn & garden manufacturer goes from EDDQ to DQ thus saving $1.41 per blank.

A supplier to the appliance industry looks at reducing the nickel content on the stainless steel by 1% thus savings 10 cents plus a 2 cents/lb. premium.

An exhaust system supplier looks at reducing the steel gauge of the tubes to the better bending properties and thus a lessening in the thinning of the walls during bending.

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