Site makes sense of international metals specs

A new metals specification website allows subscribers to compare chemistry to determine what material can be used for manufacturing parts locally from a design created in another country.

WorldSpecs has launched a subscriber-based service for end-users to decode over 100,000 international metal specifications and compare chemistry to determine what material can be used for manufacturing parts locally from a design created in another country.

This gives domestic metalworking companies a critical tool for bidding on requests for quote and participating in world export markets.

The WorldSpecs database contains international crossreferences from 36 countries and 58 standards organisations, including AFNOR, AISI, AMS, ASME, ASTM, BS, DIN, GB, ISO and JIS, for stainless steel, alloy steel, tool steel, carbon steel, aluminium, nickel and many other metal alloys.

It is useful for engineers, designers, purchasing agents and business owners, to translate from one country specification to another, whether the end user is in the European Union, North America, South America or a Pacific Rim country.

Without WorldSpecs, end-users would spend hours looking for a clue to the metal family and alloy equivalent of an unfamiliar specification by searching the Internet, calling metal suppliers, and checking reference books.

Now, an easy-to-use database compares a given specification with those for a selected country and displays equivalent and near-equivalent materials that narrow the search and translate the results into familiar specifications.

With this information, the subscriber can decide if a suitable material is available locally by comparing the chemistry of the specifications.

This gives any size metalworking company the ability to bid on making parts for export.

WorldSpecs has identified more than 250,000 potential metal and metal alloy specification cross-references between the 36 countries and 58 standards organisations.

WorldSpecs is verifying these one by one for crossreference equivalency or near-equivalency before their inclusion in the database.

In addition, WorldSpecs is updating existing specifications if there is a change in the metal's chemistry.

The subscription-based service costs less than 50-cents a day for charter subscribers who purchase an annual subscription, and comes with a money-back guarantee.

Charter subscribers are also guaranteed they can renew at an annual rate of $149.95 for two additional years.

The website also includes other useful utilities and information resources for subscribers, as well as metal and metalworking industry news and the widely read MetalsWatch published by All Metals and Forge and Purchasing Magazine.

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