Shapes Business

We contribute to various industrial fields
with a wide variety of shape products.

Our company’s shapes are adopted in various fields in Japan and abroad such as architecture, machinery, ships,
and vehicles because they cover a wide variety of sizes and types, provide reliable quality,
and meet the sophisticated and diversified needs of customers.
*Situations where our products such as shapes and flat bars
play an active role can be found on
Where We Can See JFE-BS.


List of products

  • Equal-leg angles (AB)

    These are equilateral leg angles each with two sides having the same length. They are used in a broad range of fields such as steel towers, construction, bridges, and ships. JFE Bars & Shapes produces these products at two works, Kashima Works in the east of Japan and Himeji Works in the west, and delivers the products to our customers in various places across Japan and abroad.

  • Channel beams (CB)

    Channel beams are steel shapes with a cross section close to a “C” shape. The inside of the channel flanges is inclined and called a channel. They are used in extensive applications such as architecture, vehicles, and industrial machinery.

  • Unequal-leg angles (ABS)

    Leg angles with two sides having unequal lengths are called unequal-leg angles. They are commonly used in ships’ structural members in which force is applied in a constant direction, and also used for the underframes of vehicles and general structures.

  • Flat bars (FB)

    Flat bars are belt-shaped steel products with a rectangular sectional shape. They are used for steel frames, industrial machinery, and structural members of ships. In addition, some flat bars are used as the raw material of secondary products such as nuts, washers, and blades. Thus, their applications are extremely wide ranging.

  • H beams (HB)

    H beams are steel shapes that have an H section and flanges with parallel inner and outer faces. They are characterized by higher cross-sectional efficiency than other shapes. With a high rate of use in the field of construction, they are also used as beams and columns in steel-structured buildings.

  • Round bars (RB)

    These are steel products that are also called plain round bars. Unlike deformed bars, their surface does not have deformation patterns. They are used in various applications such as construction materials and civil engineering materials after being provided with secondary fabrication. JFE Bars & Shapes produces round bars conforming to SR235 and SS400 standards.

  • Parallel flange channels (PFC)

    These are channel beams in which the inner faces of the flanges are parallel to the outer surfaces, and they are lighter than ordinary channel beams. Since the flanges are parallel, they do not require any tapered washers when they are tightened with bolts. They are extensively adopted for uses such as pedestals in the field of industrial machinery.

  • T beams (WTB)

    These are T-shaped steel products. They are used as a product essential for applications such as port civil engineering works as joint members for steel pipe sheet piles. As of 2021, our company is the only steelmaker that produces T beams (WTB) as a hot-rolled steel product.

  • Color shapes (AB・CB)

    Our company produces color shapes AB and CB. We color them using paints (water-soluble paints) that are equivalent to class JIS K5621-4 and compliant with class JIS K5674-2. The colors of the shapes we produce are red rust and gray. The color shape AB is mainly used as a mounting member for ALC panels for construction.

  • Deformed flat bars (TFB・GFB)

    Our company produces grooved flat bars (GFB) and tapered flat bars (TFB). They are used as concrete pile joints in civil engineering works.

  • Steel products for fences (rounded-edge equal-leg angles, V shapes)

    These are steel products used for the pillars and beams of fences that are commonly found in towns. They are divided into V shapes, which are used for the pillars, and rounded-edge equal-leg angles, which are used for the beams. Our company is the only steelmaker that can produce V shapes, which are required to have special shapes, by hot rolling.

  • Grooved equal-leg angles

    These are leg angles that have a longitudinal groove on one side of the flange. They are used for guard members intended to prevent wheel derailment on railroad tracks.

Product catalogs

Detailed information on the products is in the brochure below.

Safety data sheet

To ensure that our customers can use our products safely, we provide safety data sheets.

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