Hot Rolled Steel
At Worthington Steel, we take hot roll steel seriously.
Our processes create superior surface, shape, and flatness, delivering higher quality and consistent performance for a wide range of grades. With deep metallurgical expertise and tailored buying strategies, we help you manage complexity, mitigate risk, and achieve consistent, high-quality results.
Our in-house capabilities create a flexible supply chain with superior control, service, and support.
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Many Processes, One Invoice
Our extensive capabilities allow us to oversee all processes for you. We pickle, slit, cut to length, and blank under one roof, freeing you from managing multiple suppliers. The work is done and delivered through one invoice. With one contact.
Expert Support
From commodity standard requirements to customized solutions, all of our steel is backed by advanced metallurgical support from in-house experts, tailored buying strategies to mitigate risk, and streamlined supply chain solutions.
Superior Flatness Practices
In-line temper pass and roller leveling improve flatness—critical for efficient processing when lasering or stamping parts. Available in master coil, slit, or cut to length sheets.
SIX PICKLE LINES
Our multiple, in-house pickle lines enable us to control surface quality, respond quickly to changing demand, and mitigate operational risk for reliable delivery.
Vision Systems
Our vision systems ensure consistent quality through enhanced inspection of entire steel coils. Advanced technology spots and documents any problematic imperfections that could negatively impact performance.
Electrostatic Oilers
By utilizing electrostatic oilers, our facilities can apply a precise amount of oil, significantly reducing waste and keeping your floors cleaner. We can also apply different oils depending on your stamping and lasering needs.
Types of Hot Roll Steel
It Starts With the Steel You Choose—And the Company You Trust
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Hot Roll Black
Hot rolled steel, in its most basic form, with mill scale, is purchased with no cosmetic expectations and minimal shape expectations. Customers often remove mill scale by shot blasting or batch pickling after fabrication.
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Hot Roll Pickled & Oiled (HRPO)
Hot roll steel is passed through a diluted acid bath to produce a surface free of oxide scale, rust, inorganic contaminants, and stains. Pickling improves surface condition, extends die life, and helps coatings stick. Required for further processing, such as cold rolling or hot-dip galvanizing.
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Hot Roll Pickled + Tempered
After pickling, hot roll steel can be temper-rolled to improve flatness, shape, and yield, particularly for low-carbon steel applications. This eliminates the tendency for steel to non-uniformly stretch (flute), creates an improved surface texture, and helps relieve internal stress for laser cutting.
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Hot Roll Pickled + Annealed
Done primarily on mid- to high-carbon grades to soften metals for easier stamping before parts are heat-treated. Our facilities use 100% hydrogen annealing, which prevents age hardening due to hydrogen pick-up that is common with nitrogen-based annealing.
Delivery Methods and Grades
A Closer Look at Steel Grades & Common Formats
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Steel Grades
Steel grades vary by strength, formability, and composition. From carbon to high-strength and ultra-high strength options, each grade is tailored to meet performance, processing, and application needs across a range of industries.
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De-Coiled / Cut-To-Length Sheet
Steel cut to your size requirements for pattern cutting. Whether standard sizes for laser cutting (4’x8” or 5x10’) or custom for your requirements , we ensure it performs in terms of flatness and consistency when you go to form your parts. Our inline temper mill at our pickle line and state of the art leveler ensures reliable quality. Typically, fabricators consume cut-to-length sheets due to their demand volume, machine capabilities or type of part they want to economically fabricate.
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Configured Blanks
Pre-cut, flat, geometric shapes are delivered ready for forming. Focus your operations, save manufacturing steps, eliminate die and press maintenance, maximize material use, and add flexibility with multiple ship-tos from a central location.
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Slit
Standard steel coils are cut to narrower widths or split into smaller PIW steel coils. In addition, we can meet exacting width tolerance and dimensional specs for manufacturing, packaged to your requirements. This is ideal for high-volume part manufacturing.
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Full Coil
Before steel is slit, it is referred to as a full coil—regardless of whether it’s hot rolled, cold rolled, or coated (such as galvanized, galvannealed, or aluminized). These coils are typically large, weighing between 16 and 20 tons, and require heavy-duty equipment for handling and processing. Full coils are commonly ordered by manufacturers producing large, high-volume parts or by companies that perform their own slitting or de-coiling in-house.
Hot Roll Line Card
Take a look at our line card for hot steel grades and gauges.
CONVERTING TO HOT ROLL
Could you be using hot roll instead of cold roll sheet? We can help you find it out.
With our advanced processing capabilities and expert sourcing, we have helped several customers convert from a cold roll product to hot roll where design and structural requirements allow. If you’re interested in exploring what’s possible, our experienced metallurgists can work with you to assess your material and operational needs, test, analyze, and find a hot roll solution that meets your exact requirements.
Our top customers rated our steel processing 100% overall in customer support.
