Ferrous Metallics

Sold as Sorelsteel®, our steel billets support rolling mills in need of additional melt capacity in the long steel and tubular steel markets. Our low-residual billets are cast with the best quality standards – including clean steel practices and electromagnetic stirring. We can meet multiple square and round cross-sectional and length requirements. By supporting markets such as wire rod, merchant bar, and seamless pipe, Sorelsteel® billets are made into a variety of products, including autos, industrial, construction, welding electrodes, fasteners and drilling pipes.

Formerly Quebec Metal Powders (QMP), we manufacture powder from iron that is entirely sourced from low-residual ore. Because of this, our powders are exceptionally clean and consistent. We produce iron steel and prealloyed powders as well as high-performance metal powder mixes, including diffusion bonded and organic bonded mixes. Our powders are used to produce high-quality press and sinter parts for automotive, lawn and garden, and tool industries as well as consumable applications such as welding and alloys. We’ve developed specific iron powders for many new applications and markets that will help shape a greener future, including additive manufacturing (3D-printing), soft magnetic composites (SMCs) for electric motors, and various battery and energy storage applications.

We also provide START labels, digital sustainability labels for materials, which empowers our customers and theirs to make more sustainable choices.

Manufactured from high-purity iron produced by Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium in Canada, START gives metal powders customers visibility into the sustainability impact of the production process.

We have a full range of ferrous powder grades for virtually all powder metallurgy applications.

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Suzhou Technology Centre

Our Suzhou Technology Centre is home to state-of-the-art facilities that process high-quality, atomised powder produced in our plant at Sorel-Tracy, Canada into finished products.

We can mix additives – such as copper, graphite, and lubricants – with steel powder to produce customised premixes for shipment to our customers in Asia. And we can apply special binders to produce proprietary FLOMET binder treated premises.

We produce high purity pig iron (HPPI), also known in the market as Sorelmetal™, which is often used as the preferred metallic charge in the foundries for the automotive, machine, construction, and heavy industries. Sorelmetal is a high purity iron-carbon alloy containing very low concentrations of manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, and other impurities.

We guarantee the product’s high purity and consistent chemical composition, lot after lot. This high consistency level is the result of superior quality ore treated in a closely controlled manufacturing process.

Our team of metallurgists are technical expertise leaders within the global foundry industry, and have published many technical publications including 2 signature books outlining our approach – The Sorelmetal^TM Book for Ductile Iron and Ductile Iron Data Book for Design Engineers.

START labels are also now available for Sorelmetal^TM, providing greater sustainability assurance and visibility into the production process to our customers.