Steel Strapping – comes in regular duty, hi-strength and hi-tensile. Regular duty is a low carbon strapping produced for light to medium duty applications. Hi-Strength uses a medium carbon to produce stronger tensile strengths. The thin gauges (.016-.018) offer regular duty characteristics using a lighter gauge. This provides additional footage per coil and fewer coil changes. Hi-Strength is also an alternative to high tensile. The standard gauges (.020-.025) offer equal tensile strength allowing for substitution of high tensile where shock resistance is less of an issue. Hi-Tensile is a high carbon strap treated with heat to provide superior elongation and tensile strength.