Abstract: Improved steel profiles having superior material characteristics are obtained by rolling a precipitation-hardenable fine grain steel, cooling it from a final rolling temperature above the A.sub.1 -temperature down to a temperature of about 400.degree. C. in an atmosphere in which it is allowed to overage, whereupon the steel plate or strip is then cooled down to room temperature and cold-processed to form an open profile which can thereupon be converted into a tube by welding together its longitudinally extending edges and which is then subjected to solution-annealing in order-to dissolve coarse precipitants and subsequently further cooled to form finely dispersed precipitants in the profile.

Abstract: Improved steel profiles having superior material characteristics are obtained by rolling a precipitation-hardenable fine-grain steel, cooling it from a final rolling temperature above the A.sub.1 -temperature down to a temperature of about 400.degree. C. in an atmosphere in which it is allowed to overage, whereupon the steel plate or strip is then cooled down to room temperature and cold-processed to form an open profile [which can thereupon be converted into a tube by welding together its longitudinally extending edges and] which is then subjected to solution-annealing in order to dissolve coarse precipitants and subsequently further cooled to form finely dispersed precipitants in the profile.