West Yorkshire Steel are stockholders and suppliers of British Standard 970 steel specifications in round bar, flat bar and cut plate. Diameters in BS970 grades are available as bright drawn and black hot rolled bar.

Typical selection of steels and useful notes. A low carbon, free cutting, mild steel suitable for machining using automatic and CNC machines. Available as rolled or normalised in round, flat or hexagon form. A mild steel used for general purposes. Suitable for lightly stressed fasteners ,shafts etc. Can be easily machined and welded.

Suitable for lightly stressed fasteners ,shafts etc. Can be easily machined and welded. Available hot rolled, normalised, cold drawn or turned. Supplied in Black round or square , bright round square, flat and hexagon. A medium strength steel.

It is a commonly used medium carbon engineering steel with good mechanical properties and is widely used in the manufacture of mechanical parts, such as general axles and shafts, gears, bolts and stud bolts. The standard for this steel is BS970, first published in 1941.

BS 970 has covered a wide range of long product forms steel grades and finishes. Stainless steels have appeared in various parts of different issues of BS 970, but were last shown only in parts 1 and 3. BS 970 also covered some low alloy steel grades as well as stainless steels.

BS970 817M40 material or En24T, En24 steel equivalent to European EN (German DIN EN, French NF EN), ISO, Japanese JIS and Chinese GB standard (for reference).

BS 970-1:1996 © BSI 10-1998 1 Section 1 Section 1. General inspection and testing procedure 1.1 Scope Section 1 of this Part of BS 970 specifies the requirements for steelmaking and general testing and inspection procedures for the release of steel in …

This Part of BS 970 specifies the requirements for bright cold finished bars in carbon, carbon manganese, alloy, free-cutting and stainless steels supplied in straight lengths.

West Yorkshire Steel are stockholders and suppliers of British Standard 970 steel specifications in round bar, flat bar and cut plate. Diameters in BS970 grades are available as bright drawn and black hot rolled bar. Grades can be supplied to your required lengths as one offs or …

When dealing with the standardised steel specifications, many still quote BS970 as a yardstick. Find out more about it here.