Surface-critical small tube for furniture frames and heavier structural tube for fitness equipment — handled scratch-free, shipped rust-free, and made and melted in the USA, from Mansfield, Ohio.
Furniture and fitness tube doesn't hide inside a wall — it gets painted, powder-coated, or gripped by hands. That means surface quality is the spec: no water stains, no rust, no forklift scratches. Our furniture customers write handling requirements most mills won't take on — sleeved forks, rust preventative by the row, wood-slat packaging to exact bundle heights — and that's the standard we run to.
For visible or plated parts, A513 Type 2 cold-rolled is the usual call — see the Type 1 vs Type 2 comparison. For load-bearing racks and gym frames, A500 structural carries the certs.
Small-section ERW tube — squares and rectangles from ¾″ to 2″ in 14–18 ga — to ASTM A513, where surface is everything: the tube ends up visible, painted, or powder-coated. Type 2 (cold-rolled) is the usual call for visible parts, and galvannealed runs for products like bed-slat tube.
The way our furniture customers spec it: heavy rust-preventative applied by the row, scratch-preventing sleeves on forklift forks, wood-slat bundle bottoms cut to specified heights, and a no-water-stains, no-rust acceptance standard. Surface-critical handling is written into the spec sheet and held on every shipment.
Heavier structural tube to ASTM A500 — for example 1.9″ OD rounds and 7 ga 3″×4″ rectangles in hot rolled black — for racks and gym equipment, with weld-placement and surface-quality callouts held to the customer drawing.
Yes — we support made-and-melted-in-USA country-of-origin requirements with documentation, and all tube is produced in Mansfield, Ohio.
Sizes, gage, finish, surface requirements, and quantity — we'll quote it with the handling your product deserves.
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