Data Center Cabinets
Alliance Steel provides precision flat rolled steel for data center cabinets that ensure your IT infastructure's optimal performance, security, and scalability.
At Alliance Steel, we specialize in processing high quality, flat rolled steel products designed for data center cabinets.
Our expertise ensures that every sheet, coil, and blank meets the highest standards for strength, precision, and durability, supporting the critical infrastructure of modern data centers.
Types of Cabinets
- Server Cabinets (Server Racks): Standard cabinets designed to house servers, networking equipment, and other IT hardware. Typically 19-inch wide and available in various heights (measured in rack units/U /U).
- Network Cabinets: Designed specifically for networking equipment, including switches, patch panels, and routers.
- Colocation Cabinets: Cabinets with internal security partitions, allowing multiple customers to share a single cabinet while keeping equipment physically separated.
- Wall-Mount Cabinets: Smaller cabinets mounted on walls, often used for network distribution points or small server setups.
- Open Frame Racks: Racks without doors or side panels, used where security is less of a concern but easy access and airflow are priorities.
- Soundproof/Acoustic Cabinets: Cabinets designed to minimize noise from servers and equipment, ideal for office environments or where noise reduction is essential.
- Seismic Cabinets: Cabinets engineered to withstand earthquakes and strong vibrations, often used in areas prone to seismic activity.
- High-Density Cabinets: Cabinets built to support high-density equipment loads and advanced cooling solutions.
- Cooling/Containment Cabinets: Cabinets designed with integrated cooling or to be part of hot/cold aisle containment systems.
- Battery/UPS Cabinets: Cabinets specifically for housing batteries and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS).
Features and Benefits of Cold Rolled Steel and HRPO for Data Center Cabinets
Hot Rolled Pickled and Oiled (HRPO) Benefits and Features
Clean Surface for Finishing
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Our HRPO steel undergoes advanced pickling to remove mill scale, resulting in a smooth, clean surface that is ideal for high-quality powder coating or painting. This ensures your data center cabinets not only look professional but also benefit from enhanced corrosion resistance.
Enhanced Workability
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HRPO steel is engineered for superior formability and weldability compared to standard hot rolled steel. This results in precise bends, reliable welds, and efficient fabrication, making it easier to create robust, accurately manufactured cabinet enclosures.
Reliable Strength
- Retaining the structural integrity of hot rolled steel, HRPO offers consistent strength throughout each panel and frame. This makes it ideal for cabinets designed to support heavy servers, power distribution units, and other mission-critical data center hardware.
Cold Rolled Steel Benefits and Features
Exceptional Dimensional Accuracy
- Cold rolled steel is produced to tight tolerances, delivering excellent dimensional accuracy. This is critical for data center cabinets, where precise fits are required for shelves, rails, doors, and mounting hardware, ensuring seamless assembly and optimal equipment security.
Smooth, High-Quality Finish
- The naturally smooth surface of cold rolled steel is ideal for finishing processes like powder coating or painting. This not only provides a sleek, modern appearance for your cabinets but also adds a protective layer against rust and daily wear.
Consistent, Scalable Manufacturing
- With uniform thickness and clean edges, cold rolled steel enables repeatable, high-quality fabrication. This consistency supports the scalable production of data center cabinets, minimizing defects and ensuring dependable performance across all installations.
Datacenters and AI
The efficiency and performance of AI systems are significantly enhanced by and dependent on the infrastructure of data centers, which rely on high-quality steel, tubular products, and precise fabrication.
These materials provide the structural integrity and durability needed to support heavy equipment and ensure longevity, while also facilitating efficient thermal management through advanced cooling systems.
The flexibility offered by versatile steel and tubular products allows for easy upgrades and scaling, accommodating the evolving demands of AI applications.
Additionally, precision fabrication ensures optimal space utilization and efficient airflow, contributing to energy efficiency and reduced operational costs. Overall, these factors lead to increased reliability and reduced maintenance, which are crucial for the consistent uptime and performance required by AI workloads.
At Alliance, we can facilitate all of your data center needs. As a comprehensive steel provider, we can process high quality steel provided by Alliance Steel, create tubular products by Alliance Tubular, and fabricate the final product with expert precision by Alliance Fabrication.
Why Choose Alliance Steel as Your Supply Chain Partner for Server Rack Solutions?Alliance Steel is an ISO 9001: 2015 certified flat rolled steel supplier, coil processor, and material distributor that understands that successful metal processing requires stringent quality protocols that begin before fabrication.
We purchase material from trusted suppliers and verify compliance upon arrival. We use precise testing and inspection equipment to ensure every product surpasses customer requirements and audit every order for accuracy before shipment.
We are strategically located near significant highways, mills, railways, and ports. |
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Need Fabrication Solutions for Data Center Cabinets?
Looking for comprehensive steel fabrication solutions for your data center server racks? Our sister company, Alliance Fabrication and Manufacturing, provides state-of-the-art robotic welding, laser cutting, kitting and assembly, sheet metal forming, and precision bending—all within a vertically integrated campus for seamless production.
Combining high-quality steel from Alliance Steel with advanced fabrication expertise from Alliance Fabrication and Manufacturing, we offer a turnkey solution that improves efficiency, shortens lead times, and ensures exceptional product quality.
Our commitment is to help your business stay responsive, efficient, and competitive in the ever-evolving data center industry.
Visit Alliance Fabrication and Manufacturing to learn more about how we can support your data center server rack solutions.
