From A36 plate to DC53® tool steel, Chapin & Bangs and our Lindquist Steels division stock, process, and deliver the materials the Northeast builds with — under one ISO 9001:2015 scope, one PO, one cert package.

Carbon, alloy, stainless. Plate, sheet, bars, structurals, tubing, expanded metal. Cut, formed, milled, and delivered across New England and the Tri-State.

60+ years of cold-work, hot-work, high-speed, plastic-mold, and powdered-metal tool steels. Authorized US distributor for Daido, Crucible CPM®, Zapp, SSAB, ArcelorMittal, Sintokogio, Precision Marshall.
Flow Mach 4 Dynamic XD. Zero heat-affected zone, .001″ taper, 5-axis bevel up to 60°.
4kW resonators on 84″×240″ tables. CAD/DXF nesting, ±.004″ on most production thicknesses.
Hypertherm HPR 260 Hi-Def. Plate up to 1½″ at ≤2° bevel, faster than oxyfuel, sharper than torch.
BURNY CNC oxyfuel for thick plate up to 10″. The right tool when laser and plasma run out of room.
Six HEM saws to 19″×28″. Cincinnati shears 3⁄8″ × 96″×240″. Cut-to-length on bar, plate, and structural.
Precision plate and 2-/4-/6-side block milling. Blanchard, surface, and centerless grinding. Gun drilling.
≈100 application rows from "Arbors" to "Zinc Die Cast Dies," with recommended grades. Filterable.
Convert Brinell ↔ Rockwell ↔ Vickers. Compute lb of any bar, plate, or sheet by form and dimension.
Tolerance tables, machinability ratings, SAE compositions, geometric formulas. Plus per-grade datasheets.
165 River Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
1-800-972-9615
sales@cbsteel.com
Tool steel inventory ships from the same Bridgeport floor — one PO, one cert package, one truck.
Whether you need a hundred 4140 turned shafts to print or a single block of DC53® for a stamping die, our team has been quoting jobs like yours since 1888.