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What you can buy
Cold-rolled
Stainless steel
High-strength steel
- Oscillate-wound coil
Sizes
- Cold-drawn rounds
- Bar .028"–3.00"; wire .028"–.812"
- Squares and hexagons/octagons
- Bar .028"–2.50"; wire .028"–.750"
- Flats and rectangles
- Bar .125"–5.00" wide and .125"–2.00" thick, up to 9 sq in cross section; wire .050"–.750" wide and .028"–.500" thick
- Ground and polished rounds
- Wire .0062"–.812"; bar over .812" to 2.000"; surface to 20 Ra on small sizes
- Tolerances
- Standard .001"–.005" depending on size; special tolerances to .0005" on cold-drawn and .0003" on ground and polished
- Cut lengths
- 6–20 ft depending on size; short cut bar lengths on inquiry
- Special profile shapes
- Hundreds of custom cold-drawn profiles in bar (.028"–3" thick, up to 5" wide) and wire (.028"–.750")
- Drill rod
- More than 500 standard drill rod sizes in O-1, A-2, W-1, S-7 and other grades, in 3 ft and 12 ft lengths
- Grades
- Carbon (1006–1095, 15xx), free-machining and leaded (12L14, 1144 and others), alloy (4140, 4340, 52100, 8620, 9310 and others), tool and high-speed (A-2, D-2, M-2, O-1, S-7, W-1 and others), 300 and 400 series stainless, Nitronic; nickel alloys on inquiry
- Value-added
- Controlled-atmosphere coil and bar annealing, machine straightening, chamfering, coil spooling and oscillate winding, seam-free and decarb-free surface improvement, NDT for surface discontinuities
About Precision Kidd Steel
Precision Kidd Steel is a cold-drawn steel producer in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, tracing its roots to a wire company founded in 1885. It draws hot-rolled bar and rod bought from more than 20 approved mills into precision bar, wire and custom special profile shapes in carbon, alloy, free-machining, tool, high-speed and stainless grades, with annealing, straightening, centerless grinding and CNC saw cutting, from a wire mill in Aliquippa and a bar mill in Clinton.
- Processing
- Oscillate winding, Sawing, Polishing
- Industries served
- Aerospace, Appliances, Automotive, Bearings, Defense, Dental, Electric motors, Electronics, Elevators and escalators, Special fasteners, Gears and pinions, Hand and power tools, Keyway and keystock, Linear motion, Military and sporting arms, Oil and gas exploration, Power generation and transmission, Splines and spindles, Steering systems, Textile machinery, Tooling and dies, Turbines and pumps
- Certifications
- ISO 9001:2015
- Ownership
- Acquired in 2024 by The Jade Steel Group in partnership with Standard Horse Nail Company
Locations
Aliquippa, PA
Headquarters
Clinton, PA
Bar mill with multiple draw benches; die design, tooling and centerless grinding; opened 1978
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