Stainless Steel
Fastco Industries has complete cold forming manufacturing capabilities to produce stainless steel 302, 304, 316, 410, and 430 cold headed studs, rivets, pins, bolts, and specials to your exact specifications to extremely tight tolerances, prototype through production. Austenitic stainless steel grades such as 302 and 304 are highly formable. Other grades, such as high-temperature alloys like A286, martensitic stainless steel like 410, or ferritic steels like 430, are more difficult to form. These stainless grades are strong and hard materials. Ferritic and martensitic steels are also magnetic. Different stainless steel grades will contain different additives in different amounts. When selecting a stainless steel, the forming process and end application should be considered.
Read more details on the materials we specialize in below.
302 Stainless
302 stainless steel is a very rugged, ductile grade that demonstrates superior corrosion resistance. It is noted for its ease of fabrication and formability in its annealed condition.
304 Stainless
304 stainless steel is the most common stainless steel. It contains both chromium (between 18% and 20%) and nickel (between 8% and 10.5%) metals as the main non-iron components. It is less electrically and thermally conductive than carbon steel and is essentially non-magnetic. It has a higher corrosion resistance than regular steel and is widely used because of the ease that it can be formed into shapes.