The term Hollow Structural Sections (HSS) refers to high-strength welded steel tubing used as structural elements in buildings and other structures and a variety of manufactured products. Independence Tube produces square and rectangular HSS in a broad range of sizes.

There are many benefits achieved by using HSS in construction and other applications.

• Strength - HSS has high strength-to-weight ratios, excellent compression support characteristics and excellent torsional resistance.
• Appearance - In exposed applications, square and rectangular HSS becomes an exciting, visual part of the design of buildings and other structures.
• Uniformity - HSS provides uniformity of size, shape, strength
  and tolerances that makes its use totally predictable.
• Ease of Fabrication - HSS can be readily bent, formed, punched
  and drilled. New and improved methods of fastening HSS to itself or to other materials are
  making its use simpler and faster.
• Cost effectiveness - HSS is cost competitive with other
  structural materials. With improved connecting and fastening methods, it often
  enjoys a cost advantage.
• Resistant/Consistent - HSS is fire resistant and does not warp, twist, split, swell or shrink. It resists dry rot and mildew, as well as termites and carpenter ants.
• Environmentally Friendly - HSS is made from steel, one of the world's most recyclable and recycled materials.