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MATERIAL HANDLING

Hot rolled special steel shapes have proven to be economical and efficient for manufacturing material handling products such as overhead crane rail components, guided motion technology, conveyance tracks, warehouse shelving and industrial lift truck components.

INDUSTRIES

PRODUCTS

McDonald Steel hot rolled special steel shapes can be an ideal alternative to forging, casting, extruding, cold drawing or machining steel products.

McDonald Steel’s tram rail hot rolled T-Bar sections are produced using medium high carbon billets and then welded by our customers to a structural steel web and top flange. This innovative tram rail construction increases load carrying capacity and significantly improves track life. Incorporating McDonald Steel special steel shapes in your next  rail application design can help realize similar savings and improve product performance.

TRAM / ELEVATOR RAIL

Our hot rolled special steel shapes offer the structural integrity required to maintain the reliability expected by the material handling market. McDonald Steel’s hot rolled special steel shapes are engineered to meet or exceed the critical standards that assure a lift truck carriage bar can manage the weight and pressure of daily use.

FORK TRUCK COMPONENTS

McDonald Steel’s tram rail hot rolled T-Bar sections are produced using medium high carbon billets and then welded by our customers to a structural steel web and top flange. This innovative tram rail construction increases load carrying capacity and significantly improves track life. Incorporating McDonald Steel special steel shapes in your next  rail application design can help realize similar savings and improve product performance.

CRANE RAIL JOINT BARS

PRODUCTS FOR MATERIAL HANDLING

McDonald Steel is tooled to roll more than 500 asymmetrical and symmetrical hot rolled steel shapes. 

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