Manufacturing Process Routes for Reinforcing Steels

In the UK, and in many other parts of the world, reinforcing steels are specified to British Standards, or very similar, which in the main do not specify process routes. As a result, many specifiers, purchasers and users are unaware of the different process routes used in their manufacture. Manufacturing process routes for some of the reinforcing steel products used have changed considerably in recent years, and manufacturers world-wide are introducing new manufacturing processes, as well as continually developing the more mature processes, to optimise cost and performance.