Profiling Services
Masteel UK Ltd provides in-house steel profiling services using fully computerised multihead profiling machines. Combined with our comprehensive stock of carbon steels up to 170 mm thick, this enables us to produce components to your exact project requirements, delivering peace of mind through our single-site solution.
We supply everything from one-offs to thousands of profiles, finished to your specifications and tolerances. In addition, we can offer machining, grinding, and drilling services to further support your project needs.
Quality & Inspection
Quality is important to us, and we closely monitor every process to maintain the highest standards. Our ISO 9001 accreditation clearly demonstrates this commitment.
We inspect all our profiles to ensure they meet your requirements. After producing and inspecting the blanks, our operations team arranges delivery usually the next day. We can also accommodate special requirements such as stamping or marking, palletising, and shrink wrapping.
To complement our profile facility, we offer a range of rolling services supported by several local subcontractors. Thanks to our strong local links, we can supply various diameters of rolled and welded shells and dished ends.
In addition, we cut steel to your exact requirements. Alongside rolling and dished end supply, we provide optional NDT operations, including radiography, ultrasonic testing, dye penetrant, and MPI, as well as heat treatment operations such as stress relieving, normalising, and solution annealing.
Flame Cutting
Flame cutting cuts steel through a chemical reaction between oxygen and the base metal at elevated temperatures. Using pure oxygen with propane as a fuel gas produces a clean, accurate cut face. However, because this creates a heat-affected zone around the cut edges, some applications may require additional machining.
The use of multihead cutting machines makes the process suitable for both individual pieces and high batch production runs. In addition, our fully computerised CAD/CAM software ensures maximum material utilisation during manufacture.
Our Flame Cutting Services
Application: Carbon & Low Alloy Steels
Cutting Range: 6mm – 300mm thick (thicker material available on request)
Cutting Area: 6000 x 3000
Flame cutting is a popular added-value service in our business, and we cut steel for clients across the UK and for international delivery. We operate our own computerised multihead profiling machines, which link directly to AutoCAD. As a result, we can take your drawing and use it as a working template to cut the steel precisely to your requirements.
Laser Cutting
Laser cutting steel profiles offers numerous advantages. Although the process generates heat, the heat-affected zone (HAZ) remains very small thanks to the precise nature of the laser cutting tool.
Another clear benefit is the laser’s ability to cut complex and intricate shapes. As a result, laser cutting is an effective method for producing accurately cut steel profiles, allowing us to achieve very fine tolerances.
Masteel offers a laser cutting profile service, and when combined with the volume of steel we stock on-site, this makes us a one-stop shop for all your pressure vessel and boiler quality steel supply needs.
Our Laser Cutting Services
Application: Carbon & Alloy Steels
Cutting Range: Up to 30mm thickness
Cutting Area: 4000 x 2000
Water Jet Cutting
Waterjet profiling is a cost effective heat and gas free cutting method that works successfully on any steel material.
The process uses a pressurised waterjet typically between 30,000 and 60,000 psi, which enables cutting of much greater material thicknesses. During steel cutting, the water is mixed with abrasive garnet, allowing us to cut the material to close tolerances.
In addition, the process yields very little heat and therefore there is no heat affected zone to speak of (HAZ). This in turn promotes a very accurate and detailed cut. Profiles can be cut up to a thickness of 200mm.
Our Waterjet Cutting Services
Application: All Steels
Cutting Range: Up to 200mm thickness
Cutting Area: 6000 x 3000
Plasma Cutting
Our flame cutting profiling service does not extend to materials such as stainless steel. This is because flame cutting relies on an oxidation process, while materials like stainless steel, aluminium, and copper form oxides that make flame cutting virtually impossible. As a result, plasma arc cutting is a suitable alternative to consider.
Plasma cutting works by passing gas through a narrow nozzle at high velocity. This gas is connected to an electric current, which creates an ionised plasma stream. The stream melts the metal, and the high-velocity gas blows away the molten material, producing a clean cut edge.
Masteel UK Limited offer a plasma cutting profiling service for stainless and other high alloy steels.
Our Plasma Cutting Services
Application: Carbon, Low & High Alloy Steels
Cutting Range: Up to 40mm
Cutting Area: 7000 x 3000