New Sizes of Stainless Steel C.D. Flat 304

Parker Steel has ordered from its mill suppliers, 29 additional sizes of Stainless Steel metric size cold drawn flats in type 304 to its inventory. Sizes added are for the larger flats such as 150mm x 10mm and 70mm x 30mm. The bars should arrive in stock in October and November of this year. The firm also stocks cold drawn stainless steel flats in type 316 and 303. The goal of the company is to provide the most extensive inventory of metric size metals in America, and to date Parker Stocks eleven times as many metric metal items as its closest competitor. www.metricmetal.com or call: 419-304-1718 or Toll Free at: 1-800-333-4140

MetricMetal.com New Website !!!!!!!

Parker Steel / MetricMetal.com are greatly anticipating the arrival of our new website.
This "facelift" will make it even easier to buy metric sized metal in various grades, shapes and sizes. The site is easier to navigate and offers new ways for customers to send in inquiries, download our reference guides, browse through our product categories, and contact our friendly, knowledgeable staff.
New functions to the site include interactive conversion calculators, steel industry news feeds, and a comprehensive glossary of steel and metal related terminology. It will be easier than ever to request a quote right from our home page, as well as ask questions and even link to our new Spanish site!
Thanks to the work of the talented staff at Toledo.com, we are happy to invite you to look for our new site in the coming days. We anticipate the site to be completed and live by the first week in September. We look foreword to hearing your comments and feedback, here on blogger, or send an email to the marketing department at: sgoldner@metricmetal.com.

2006/2007 Reference Guide Available Now!

Parker Steel just received in from our printer 50,000 copies of our new “Metric Size Metals Reference Guide 2006/2007” We will begin sending them out the first week in August 2006. This guide lists over a nine hundred items that we now stock that were not listed in our previous guide. In addition the new guide includes lots of crisp photos of our inventory, and candid shots of our warehouse. We have also included a new section of the guide of Mechanical Properties of Standard Cold Drawn Steel, technical information on Honed tubing, Hard Chrome plated shafting, and an expanded section detailing comparison of USA Standards to International Standards for ASTM, SAE, AISI and Euronorm, German , English, Italian and Japanese specifications. Call Parker Steel at 800 333 4140 for your free guide, please mention you saw this news item about the guide in our Blog. To download our Reference guide or make a request to have one sent to you, go to our website at:www.metricmetal.com
or send us a note here.

New Phone System at Parker Steel

Parker Steel has just installed a new Inter-Tel telephone system to better handle our customers inquires. This telephone system enables customers and those looking for metric size metal an even faster and more dependable method of getting price and availability quotations. All calls at our toll free number 1-800-333-4140 are answered by the sales team. This allows you to get directly to a person that knows our range of capabilities. Thanks to this new telephone system ninety eight percent of our inbound calls are answered by the sales team by the third ring. That means an average answer time of seven seconds. metricmetal.com

Largest Selection of C.D. Alloy 4140 Annealed Square Bars!!!

New at Parker Steel are cold drawn alloy 4140 annealed square bars. In Europe grade is known as 42CrMo4 and in Japan as SCM 440. We have the largest selection of this item anywhere. Sizes start at 6 millimeters and go up to 50mm from flat to flat. Alloy 4140 squares produce a product with superior depth hardness; wear resistance, excellent toughness coupled with good ductility and the ability to resist stress at higher temperatures. This is the most popular alloy in North America. And can achieve a tensile strength of 130,000 phis after heat treating. We stock these Bars in lengths from 10 to 13 feet long. This is an oil hardening steel. The chromium content provides good hardness penetration and the molybdenum imparts uniformity, hardness and high strength.