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It is common today to raise the issue: the iron & steel industry and its importance to the infrastructural development as well as the home furniture hardware manufacturing. The steel industry is often considered to be an indicator of a single country’s economic progress and its boom.

Recently, I found out that from August to September 2009, the domestic steel price, chiefly, is being spurred by the raw materials costs, rather than totally by the demand. Though the cosmetic steel price had been going up and down in recent years, it has bottomed out and recovered gradually over time. A piece of good news is that the decreasing raw material costs have lowered the production costs, triggering the continuous huge demand for the iron applications, including the iron and steel hardware for furniture.

Iron and steel furniture hardware exists here and there every day. While waking up, people would see the door handles or knobs made of steel, alloy steel or other “mix-of-iron-and-alloy”materials. Entering into the kitchen, people might see the cabinet pulls& knobs, consisting of stainless and steel.

Indeed, everything regarding as steel belongs to the iron hardware. They are of their forming presence in the steel, alloying mostly with Chrome, Nickel and other alloying elements. The stainless, alloy steel with the Nickel, chrome & other alloying materials added to would help produce desired properties.

Do you want to avoid the problem of rust on the furniture hardware? For stainless-steel-made hardware, at least 11% chrome added to steel would form a hard oxide on the metal surface, helping to prevent corrosion.  Chrome also helps control the quality of tensile strength and hardness.

Nickel in steel applications increases the hardness, ductility and makes being more stable in its usage. Vanadium added to the iron/carbon mixture to produce steel diminishes the effects of metal fatigue.

All of the drawbacks, including corrosion, melting, lack of tensile strength, which might happen to the iron/ other material use in home furniture hardware, but alloy steel and stainless steel we have will stand a 90% chance of being avoided.

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