Four months ago, JDM Steel Service Inc., an independent service center and member of the North American Steel Alliance, introduced a new variation on hot-rolled pickled-and-oiled steel that provides the cost advantages of hot roll with forming and fabricating characteristics more closely resembling cold-rolled steel. In a classic case of adaptive use, the Chicago Heights, Ill., coil processor is running P&O up to 0.25-inch thickness through the same coil-to-coil corrective leveling and rotary power brushing line it also uses to process dry hot-rolled steel