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What you can buy
Stainless steel
Aluminum
Electrical steel
- Slit coil
- Cut-to-length sheet
- Blanks
- Precision strip
Sizes
- Slitting
- Eight slitters from 12" to 52"; 0.001"–0.135" thick depending on line; inventory widths 0.187"–52"
- Cut-to-length
- 0.006"–0.040" thick, 0.500"–24" wide, lengths 5"–144"
- Edge conditioning
- 0.015"–0.125" thick, #1, #3, #4 and #5 edges
- Coatings
- Polyester, epoxy, hybrid, anti-fingerprint and dry film lube coatings on stainless (0.004"–0.060") and aluminum (0.014"–0.060", up to 60" wide)
- Small-quantity orders
- No minimum order quantities, from prototype quantities to full truckloads, plus small-quantity re-rolling
About National Kwikmetal Service
National Kwikmetal Service (NKS) is a stainless steel and aluminum flat-rolled coil service center headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois, established in 1989 as a small-order specialist. It slits, cuts to length, blanks, edges, re-rolls and coats stainless steel, aluminum, titanium and nickel alloy strip at plants in Illinois, Tennessee and Querétaro, Mexico, for aerospace, appliance, automotive, electronics, medical, HVAC and power generation customers.
- Processing
- Slitting, Cut-to-length, Blanking, Cold rolling, Edge conditioning, Coil coating
- Industries served
- Aerospace, Appliance, Architecture and construction, Automotive, truck and rail, Chemical processing, Defense, Electronics, Foodservice, HVAC, Medical, Marine, Power generation
- Certifications
- ISO 9001:2015
- Ownership
- Division of A. M. Castle & Co.
Locations
Des Plaines, IL
Headquarters
Elgin, IL
NKS Alloys; aluminum and stainless sheet, cut-to-length blanking
La Vergne, TN
Slitting
Colón, QA, MX
NKS de Mexico, Querétaro; slitting
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