General Info

Kentucky Electric Steel manufactures more than 2,600 different steel bar flat items, which are sold to the leaf-spring suspension market for light- and heavy-duty trucks, minivans and utility vehicles. The company s products fall primarily into two general quality levels: merchant bar quality (MBQ) for generic types of applications, and special bar quality (SBQ) for when precise customer specifications require the use of various alloys, customized equipment and special production procedures. Kentucky Electric Steel owns and operates a steel mill near Ashland, Ky., which was specifically designed to manufacture wider and thicker bar flats up to three inches in thickness and twelve inches in width.