Quantity in Percentage (Typical Values)

Billets

Nominal Thickness (mm)	Nominal Thickness Tolerance (mm)	Nominal Length (mm)	Nominal Length Tolerance (mm)
100 x 100	±3	3600 – 12000	±100
130 x 130	±4	3600 – 12000	±100
Grades		AISI /SAE 1006-1008-1010ASTM / A106-A53-A615-A36DIN 17100 – 17175 – 17200EN 10025 , EN 10083 , 10084ISO 6935

Blooms

Nominal Thickness (mm)	Nominal Thickness Tolerance (mm)	Nominal Length (mm)	Nominal Length Tolerance (mm)
150 x 150	±4.5	3600 – 12000	±100
200 x 200	±6	3600 – 12000	±100
260×260	±8	3600 – 12000	±100
Grades		AISI /SAE 1006-1008-1010ASTM / A106-A53-A615-A36DIN 17100 – 17175 – 17200EN 10025 , EN 10083 , 10084ISO 6935

Slabs

Nominal Thickness (mm)	Nominal Thickness Tolerance (mm)	Nominal Length (mm)	Nominal Length Tolerance (mm)
200	±5	3600 – 12000	±100
245	±5	3600 – 12000	±100
Grades		AISI /SAE 1006-1008-1010DIN 17100 – 17175 – 17200JIS G 3106 , G 3101 , G 3132ASTM A569 , A621 , A622 , A283 , A572API 5L. GrB , X42 , X46

Billets During the second stage of steel production processes, steel ingots or strand casts are hot-rolled or forged into squares with a cross-section that is usually less than 36 square inches (230cm²). Basetrade Global can supply these square billets to manufacturers of steel bars, rods, pipes, tubes and wire products. Blooms Blooms differ from billets because their cross-sectional areas exceed 36 square inches (230cm²). Basetrade Global can supply steel blooms to manufacturers of structural shapes, rails, rods, and seamless pipes for use in rotary piercing, structural shape rolling and profile rolling finishing processes. Slabs Slabs are lengths of metal that are made rectangular in cross-section by continuous casting or by rolling steel ingots. Basetrade Global can supply steel slabs for further processing via flat rolling, skelping, and pipe rolling to sheet metal, plate, strip metal, pipe, and tube manufacturers.