•     The thickness in cross sections is uniform since the sections are produced from flat strip.
      
• Cold rolled forming sections are manufactured to close dimensional tolerances and high standard of finish and straightness.
      
• Cold roll forming is most suitable for complex sections, where sections are required in longer lengths and for high volume output.
      
• Cold work involved in the manufacture of most thin walled sections generally increase the yield and ultimate strengths and reduce the ductility of material especially at corners and bends.
      
• Cold roll forming can raise yield strength of full sections as much as 70% above virgin yield strength compared to any other method of forming.
      
• Changes the material properties of the flat portions of a cross section depend on the method of forming. Flat portions of press braked sections experience very little cold work if any. On the other hand flats in cold rolled sections are not only subject to roll pressure, but in addition, may bend considerably in the forming process, flatness being then restored in the latest stages of forming.
      
• Experimental data reveals much longer strength increase occurred for cold rolled then for press braked sections.

The strength increase may be attributed, therefore to mild strain hardening and aging from stretcher straightening of sheets stored as cols and the much larger effects of normal pressure and flexural deformations experienced by the flats during roll forming.