Steel mills supply coils in standard widths, usually 900 to 1500 mm or more. Most workshops need something else: narrow strips for tubes and profiles, or flat sheets of an exact length. That is what slitting and cut-to-length lines do.
Slitting
A slitting line unwinds the wide mother coil, passes the strip through sets of circular knives, and rewinds it as several narrow slit coils. One 1250 mm coil can become, for example, five strips of about 250 mm.
- Used for: tube and pipe mills, roll forming of purlins and profiles, press shops, stamping, cable trays.
- Specify: material and grade, thickness, slit width(s), inner diameter of the coil, maximum coil weight and the width tolerance you need.
- Good to know: a little width is lost at the edges (edge trim), and very narrow strips in thick material may not be possible. Ask us for the practical range for your thickness.
Cut-to-length (CTL)
A cut-to-length line unwinds the coil, flattens it in a leveller, and shears it into sheets of a set length, such as 2500 mm. Sheets come stacked and ready to use.
- Used for: fabrication, panels, laser and CNC cutting, furniture, tanks.
- Specify: thickness, width, length, number of sheets or total tonnes, and whether flatness is critical.
Why buy processed material
- Less scrap, because you buy close to the size you use.
- No need for your own shearing or slitting equipment.
- Faster production, because material arrives ready for the machine.
Send us your size and quantity. We will tell you what is available from stock and what can be processed to order.