Ellwood Quality Steel

EQS is North America's leading supplier of high quality carbon, alloy, stainless and tool steel ingots for open die forging, extrusion and ring rolling. Additionally, we can service special applications for producers of closed die forgings as well as bar and plate products. Flexibility and responsiveness are emphasized in our organization to give our customers a competitive advantage for their own markets, which include areas such as aerospace, oil and gas, power generation, mining, ordnance, steel mill products, construction and heavy industrial manufacturing.

Our commitment to our customers is unmatched. We strive to become an extension of our customer's facility to provide a seamless flow of our product into yours. We step beyond melting and shipping ingots, we can design supply programs, solve problems, provide technical support and lab services to increase EQS's value to our customer. In 1985, as a response to market demand, Ellwood Quality Steels (EQS) commissioned its melt shop to be a premier producer of high quality, low cost, clean steel ingots.  Our operations are built on a sound technical foundation.  Our long-range vision has led us to invest in opportunities to advance quality, increase productivity and improve service. EQS’s quality assurance system has been certified to ISO 9001and is implemented by a highly trained workforce using state-of-the-art equipment and methodology.  We have created a manufacturing environment where excellence is an everyday occurrence.  We thrive on consistently exceeding our customer’s expectations. 

EQS is North America’s leading supplier of high quality carbon, alloy, stainless and tool steel ingots for open die forging, extrusion and ring rolling. Additionally, we can service special applications for producers of closed die forgings as well as bar and plate products. Flexibility and responsiveness are emphasized in our organization to give our customers a competitive advantage for their own markets, which include areas such as aerospace, oil and gas, power generation, mining, ordnance, steel mill products, construction and heavy industrial manufacturing. Our commitment to our customers is unmatched. We strive to become an extension of our customer’s facility to provide a seamless flow of our product into yours. We step beyond melting and shipping ingots, we can design supply programs, solve problems, provide technical support and lab services to increase EQS’s value to our customer.

EQS produces a wide range of bottom poured ingot sizes for a wide variety of applications. Our customers are open die forge shops, ring rollers, and steel mills that demand the highest quality of material for their products. EQS produces cylindrical as well as big end up ingots to achieve customer yield and cleanliness requirements.

EQS’s cylindrical ingots have little or no taper along their length and provide optimal yield after discard of the hot top. These molds are available from 10” through 50” diameter. Cylindrical ingots are ideal for commercial or bearing quality specifications. Tapered big end up ingots have an ideal design for optimal solidification which enables steel cleanliness to approach that of re-melted material. The taper and larger hot top volume of these molds ensure ideal solidification that promotes further refinement of inclusions into the hot top and minimizes chemical segregation for an air melt ingot. Tapered ingots are available in round and rectangular cross sections. For the most demanding applications, EQS offers a wide range of VAR and ESR ingots that will meet and exceed all industry requirements for these products.