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Stainless Steel Supplier for Plate, Coil, Pipe, Tube and Bar
304/304L, 316L, 321, 2205 and 2507 duplex and super duplex stainless-melted, rolled and finished at one plant and issued against the documents your QA and inspection use.
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Grade families supplied — austenitic, stabilised, high-temperature, duplex, super duplex
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Product forms — plate, coil, pipe & tube, bar & rod, sheet
30,000+ m²
Production base, melting through finishing
20+ yrs
Metal manufacturing and export service
3.1 / 3.2
EN 10204 inspection documents available per order
PREN 19–43
Published pitting resistance span across the range
Sourcing Stainless Steel Without a Local Service Center
Choosing a stainless steel supplier gets hard the moment your requirement stops matching what the local warehouse keeps on the floor. Buyers describe waits of 8–10 weeks on ordinary grades and 30–50 weeks on specialty material, then the hassle of re-sourcing to a second vendor mid-project. Stainless steel is a family of chromium-bearing alloys, not one material, and the grade you need is often the one nobody stocks nearby.
Delay
A fabricator posting in a welding forum put it plainly — “I order material every day from steel suppliers and I get tired of the wait times.”
Comparison
A metallurgy forum post frames the second problem — “In steel procurement, I’ve noticed that supplier comparison becomes difficult when specifications are not standardised.”
Grade
A distributor stocking only 304 and 316 cannot serve a chloride duty that needs a higher alloy, so the specification gets bent to fit the inventory.
The Mill-Direct Advantage
Root cause here is structural, not attitudinal. A service center buys mill output on its own schedule and re-sells from stock, which means your lead time is governed by their replenishment cycle rather than by a rolling mill. Department of Energy materials roadmapping for process equipment frames the same tension: the chemical and allied process industries keep changing what they need from metals faster than the supply base changes what it holds (DOE/EERE, MTI Roadmap for Process Equipment Materials Technology).
TiAlloy resolves this by selling from the plant that makes the metal.
We melt, forge, roll, anneal, pickle and finish stainless steel in-house across a 30,000 m² production base, so a grade that is not on anyone’s shelf is a production decision rather than a dead end. The trade-off is honest and stated up front: mill-direct suits planned, high-volume and specification-driven buying, and it does not replace a local shelf for a same-week emergency.
What supplier pages claim, and what to ask instead
Read five stainless steel supply pages in a row and the language converges. Every one is a premium supplier of premium stainless steel with excellent corrosion resistance across the wide range of applications it lists, staffed by metal experts serving whatever variety of industries the sector happens to contain. None of that can be checked, so replace each phrase with a question that can.
| What the page says | What to ask instead |
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| “A trusted stainless steel supplier” | Who issued the certificate — the plant that melted the heat, or a reseller passing it through? |
| “Excellent corrosion resistance” | What is the PREN, and against what measured chloride level? |
| “Strength and excellent corrosion resistance” | Which minimum yield figure, to which ASTM specification? |
| “Suitable for the wide range of applications you need” | Which grades, in which forms, to which tolerance class? |
| “Metal experts serving every variety of industries” | Which service data do you need from me before you will name a grade? |
TiAlloy Stainless Steel Product Range
All products offered below are manufactured at the same facility, within the framework of the same robust quality management system, and shipped with matching documents for the same purpose. Select your desired product form, then the grade-this streamlined purchasing approach leads to clearer, more readily comparable Requests for Quote.
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ASTM A240 · hot & cold rolled
Stainless Steel Plate / Coil
Premium, value added flat product (including plate) and pressure vessel plate. Custom cut, levelled and finished to your specification for the job.
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ASTM A312 / A213 · pierced
SS Pipe & Tube
Seamless solid-billet and welded for high-temperature and corrosive service, 1/8 through 30.
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ASTM A276 · round, flat, hex
SS Bar & Rod
Turned, peeled and centerless-finished bar for machining, valves and fasteners.
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UNS S30400 / S30403
304/304L Stainless Steel
The default austenitic material for food, general chemical and structural use.
Explore Grade05
UNS S31603 · 2–3% Mo
316L Stainless Steel
Molybdenum-bearing austenitic for chloride and acid services where 304 will not hold.
Explore Grade06
UNS S32100 · Ti-stabilised
321 Stainless Steel
Titanium-stabilised against sensitisation for welded high-temperature assemblies.
Explore Grade07
UNS S31803 · PREN 36
Duplex 2205
Ferritic-austenitic structure delivering high strength with chloride cracking resistance.
Explore Grade08
UNS S32750 · PREN 43
Super Duplex 2507
Seawater and severe chloride service when austenitic materials pit and crevice attack.
Explore GradeOur stainless steel product range spans stainless steel sheet and coil, through to plate, tube, bar, and rod. In flat products, we offer slitting, levelling and cut to size. Where other steel manufacturers use other providers to slit and level coil, we carry out both operations in house on our own line of equipment. This is a key reason why you’ll get a single heat number across the entire delivery. Laser fused structural shapes and other specialty metal products are quoted by case as our stock levels are too restrictive for most.
Working out how much flat product your job actually needs? Calculate flat product weight before you ask anyone for pricing.
Calculate Weight NowTiAlloy is a source, not a warehouse of standard products for stainless steel, and you’ll only find unusual specifications here. Online stainless steel material suppliers and stainless steel pipe suppliers are generally regional stockholders, so when you see our supplier comparison on this page it’s framed around a supply route rather than specific brand names.
We focus our product coverage on the narrow and deep. If your stainless steel requirements include 304 stainless or 316L stainless steel, or a stabilized steel product that is intended to perform at higher temperatures in a weld, or one of the duplex grades to cover a chloride environment then there’s a good chance we do it well. Stainless steel materials that are not within these families are quoted on request if the capability to produce a quality product exists.
Document packages travel with the physical product, not in separate shipments behind it. Steel and steel products require inspection document types (as set out in ISO 10474:2013 Steel and steel products — Inspection documents). TiAlloy automatically issues plate, pipe, tube, and bar against a 3.1 certificate, or can provide a 3.2 certification if the specification requires third party counter signature.
Multi material requirements fit into a single order and delivery package. The TiAlloy nickel alloy range and our titanium mill products are produced in the same plant, and our clad plate line can deliver any bonded product combination.
Product Form to Standard Routing
Most quote disputes aren’t about price. They arise when two suppliers answer the same enquiry against different specifications and the disparity isn’t spotted until the material arrives. Routing each form to the appropriate standard in the RFQ phase eliminates that failure mode before it costs anyone a rejection.
| Product form | Governing ASTM specification | What the standard covers | What to state in the RFQ |
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| Plate, sheet, strip | ASTM A240 / A240M | Chromium and chromium-nickel stainless steel plate, sheet and strip for pressure vessels and for general applications | Thickness, width, edge condition, surface finish |
| Pierced & welded pipe | ASTM A312 / A312M | Pierced solid-billet, straight-seam welded and heavily cold worked austenitic stainless steel pipe for high-temperature and general corrosive service | NPS, schedule, pierced or welded route, hydro requirement |
| Heat-exchanger tube | ASTM A213 / A213M | Pierced ferritic and austenitic alloy-steel boiler, superheater and heat-exchanger tubes | OD, wall, length, eddy-current or hydro |
| Bar and rod | ASTM A276 / A276M | Stainless steel bars and shapes | Profile, finish, tolerance class, straightness |
| Duplex pipe | ASTM A790 / A790M | Pierced and welded ferritic/austenitic stainless steel pipe | Ferrite balance, impact test temperature |
The Document Layer
The document layer is routed the same way. Buyers frequently get confused on the type of document: an EN 10204 3.1 certificate is issued by the manufacturer on its own inspection; 3.2 is backed by an independent inspector or by the purchaser’s own representative. National laboratory purchasing organisations regard this on the level of line items, not merely as a nicety – even an Oak Ridge statement of work for procurement of ITER flange pieces lists EN 10204:2014 as a required deliverable (ORNL, Fabrication of ITER Flange Samples).
Make two quotes comparable in four lines
Specify the standard, document type, surface finish and scope of test. The TiAlloy quotation includes all these four lines, which means our quoted product can be laid over the product quoted by another mill on a like-for-like basis; a quotation which omits one of the four lines isn’t cheaper, it’s cheaper because it doesn’t include as much.
Holding two quotes that look different and cannot tell why? Compare quote completeness line by line.
Compare QuotesFinish, Tolerance and Surface Condition by Form
Surface condition is a factor in corrosion. Contrary to the general assumption, any rust which appears days or weeks after installation is likely to be iron contamination from fabricating operations rather than indication that the wrong grade has been shipped. Coarse finishes are also more vulnerable to pit initiation at a given level of chlorides.
Form
Standard finish
Available on request
Why it matters in service
Hot rolled plate
No.1 — annealed, pickled
Shot blasted, ground
Descaled surface restores the passive film after high-temperature processing
Cold rolled coil / sheet
2B — smooth, reflective
BA bright annealed, No.4 brushed
Lower roughness reduces crevice sites in wash-down and food duty
Pipe & tube
Pickled, annealed
180 / 320 grit polish, electropolish
Internal finish governs cleanability and pressure-drop in process lines
Bar & rod
Peeled and ground
Centreless ground, bright drawn
Bar that has not been passivated is a common source of surface rust
There are two properties established at this stage which are difficult to alter thereafter. One is weldability, which depends on the carbon content and the stabilizing addition; hence the existence of 304L and 316L, and 321 and 347 which are stabilized to retain grain structure at higher temperatures than an unstabilised equivalent. The other is the surface, properly passivated, and in that state impervious to the early rusting which occurs from surface iron contamination and is confused with an erroneous material grade.
Need a specific surface condition and tolerance class written into the order?
Request a quote stating the finish, and we will confirm what the line can hold before you commit.
Passivation is one of the steps that buyers frequently miss from the specification, and then miss on delivery. It is a chemical cleansing procedure designed to remove free iron and other surface anodic contamination, allowing the protective surface oxide to re-form, and NASA’s internal specification for austenitic, ferritic, martensitic and precipitation-hardenable corrosion-resistant steels (NASA PRC-5002, Passivation and Pickling of Corrosion Resistant Steels) provides a fully comprehensive guide.
A rule of thumb worth checking before you rely on it
The common anti-galling fix, employing a 304 bolt to a 316 nut on the rationale of a 50 HB difference, may work but is not a guarantee; galling is the cold welding of clean stainless steel surfaces under compression.
It is facilitated by pitch, clearance, profile, lubricant and over-tightening in equal measure with material properties. TiAlloy quote measured hardness to guarantee your assembly designer is working with the data, not guesswork.
Three Routes to Stainless Supply
There are three ways of buying and fitting equivalent stainless steel bars and bars, each appropriate to a different task; the loss to organisations is on adopting a cheapest purchase price policy, ignoring the path by which that item arrives.
| Decision factor | Mill direct (TiAlloy) | Regional service center | Trading company |
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| Best fit | Planned, specification-driven volume | Same-week replenishment from stock | Mixed small parcels across many mills |
| Grade breadth | Any grade in the table above, made to order | Typically 304 and 316 in common sizes | Whatever the source mills hold |
| Certificate origin | Issued by the melting plant, heat traceable | Passed through from the original mill | Passed through, sometimes re-typed |
| Reported lead time | Production slot, quoted per order | Ex-stock, or 8–10 weeks when not held | Depends on the sourcing mill |
| Landed cost exposure | Freight, duty, insurance, brokerage priced openly | Bundled into the shelf price | Margin layered above mill price |
What actually sits in a landed cost
The six points for a USITC landed duty-paid comparison, are: duty rate, harbor maintenance fee, merchandise processing fee, ocean freight and marine insurance, and the port of entry fees for the freight forwarding. (USITC, Stainless Steel Wire Rod investigation.) Price against those six lines instead of a retail value and you get some assurance from the data instead of a guess. TiAlloy itemizes and quotes each separately for transparency.
To check the assumptions that local is implicitly fast and stable there are two points. First, an issue raised on a supply chain forum called the number straight out – “12-16 week leadtimes mills typically want”, although the forum members also say that specialty stainless is going out 30-50 weeks anyway. A local shelf is therefore fast in much the same way that any stock is: when it’s there. Secondly for import, the real risk is less logistics, it’s policy: according to a survey of organisations one in three had already stopped or deferred orders as a result of the tariff waves.
Life-cycle cost evidence — material level
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-13%
Life-cycle cost over 80 years at the Schaffhausen Bridge, where stainless reinforcement was about 5% of steel tonnage
Source: ASSDA, Australian Stainless Magazine 73
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22%
2%
Refurbishment and replacement downtime at a wastewater treatment plant after galvanised steel was replaced with 304/316
Source: ASSDA, Australian Stainless Magazine 73
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>$200M
Annual saving reported by the Tokyo Water Authority after switching mains connections to corrugated stainless tube
Source: ASSDA, Australian Stainless Magazine 73
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40%
Share of surveyed buyers who now run life-cycle cost analyses, with one in four naming it their principal reason for choosing stainless
Source: Outokumpu market survey, Stainless Steel World, April 2026
This table below represents material savings of stainless steel vs carbon or galvanised steel. It does not represent TiAlloy vs competitor savings. We would never represent it in that way. Request from us a landed cost breakdown for stainless steel at your volume if it is of interest to you on a supplier basis.
There is one demarcation worth making on safe grounds. If your search has just thrown stainless steel suppliers near me, your order will be fulfilled by a local stockholder, that is the honest truth, we will have it nothing other than as so. Getting into your mill-direct account happens when neither certificate content or grade volume fall into a shelf capacity.
Want the six landed cost lines filled in for your parcel?
Request a quote with your destination port and we will price them separately.
Request a quoteIndustries Served and What Each One Specifies
An industry to which the part belongs is often an indicator of the failure mode long before the grade. stainless steels and nickel alloys are preferred for many chemical process and associated industries, because the conditions are sufficiently severe that it will destroy carbon steel (Rebak, Environmental Cracking of Corrosion Resistant Alloys, OSTI).
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Chemical
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Marine
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Heat Exchange
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Food & Pharma
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Power
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Desalination
Chemical & petrochemical
Dominant risk
Acid attack, stress corrosion cracking
Grades supplied
316L, 904L, 2205
Added to RFQ
Intergranular corrosion test, ferrite check
Marine & offshore
Dominant risk
Chloride pitting and crevice corrosion
Grades supplied
2205, 2507
Added to RFQ
PREN limit, impact test at −46°C
Heat exchangers & condensers
Dominant risk
Thermal cycling, tube-side fouling
Grades supplied
316L, 321, 2205
Added to RFQ
Eddy current, hydrostatic test, ID finish
Food & pharmaceutical
Dominant risk
Cleanability, wash-down chemistry
Grades supplied
304/304L, 316L
Added to RFQ
Surface roughness limit, passivation
Power & high temperature
Dominant risk
Oxidation, sensitisation at weld
Grades supplied
321, 347, 310S
Added to RFQ
Stabilising heat treatment, grain size
Desalination
Dominant risk
Continuous seawater exposure
Grades supplied
2507, 904L
Added to RFQ
PREN above 32, chloride and temperature data
Material Specification & Application Nuances
We receive work fromospace, automotive and oil & gas as Specification Driven Requests. Work on food processing, food service and food processing equipment however, typically comes in as a surface finish or cleanability requirement. Chemical processing is the best of both: the severity of chemical attack demands the grade; the layout of the machinery demands the form.
Strength to weight is also an important factor – especially when the part moves around, the only time duplex starts to pull away from the austenetics. The structure is notable for its value in shaping what the company needs to learn at enquiry stage. TiAlloy looks at: the service conditions ahead of the materials order.
Measured chlorides, the peak metal temperature, and the presence or not of a crevice at the weld, all have more impact on the conclusion than whether the customer would prefer to ask for a known, common code number or a specific grade.
If the client can not provide such details, a quotation is issued on the specification as given with the assumptions made noted on the material certificate. The conversation naturally includes cross-material substitution. Where chloride levels and temperature go above super duplex, titan is typically called for before any higher-grade stainless and our titanium heat exchanger tube product is designed for that very edge case.
Have the service data but not the specification?
Check your RFQ readiness against what a mill needs to quote.
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CERTIFIED
Buying From a China Mill
What Actually De-Risks It
What Actually De-Risks It
The easy question that purchasers will often vocalize is whether or not it is safe to buy Chinese stainless steel. What they want the answer to is both more useful and narrower: can I verify that the material corresponds to the certificate, and the certificate to a real heat?
Fortunately, this is not so difficult a task, with methods published by standards organizations, none of which rely on trusting the word of a supplier. Each mill test certificate includes information on chemical composition and mechanical properties, as well as heat treatment history and traceability, in accordance with such specs as ASTM, ASME, EN 10204, API, or ISO; and each needs to be verified via a five-step process, and not just “read” by the recipient.
The 5-Step Verification Process
And the consequences of getting it wrong are significant: a 25 ton shipment of material for aerospace or valve manufacturing in Europe, or a machine shop ordering two tons for general fabrications, are at fundamentally different levels of audit necessity and the extent of inspection required to prove up on the MTC.
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Grade
What you check
Certificate grade against purchase order
Red flag that fails it
Missing standards reference
What TiAlloy supplies
Grade and standard printed on certificate and tag
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Heat No.
What you check
Certificate heat number against physical marking
Red flag that fails it
Mismatched heat numbers
What TiAlloy supplies
Hard stamp or paint mark per piece
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Chemistry
What you check
Every alloying element inside specification range
Red flag that fails it
Impossible chemistry values
What TiAlloy supplies
Full spectrometric analysis on certificate
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Mechanicals
What you check
Tensile, yield, elongation, hardness against code
Red flag that fails it
Altered PDF documents
What TiAlloy supplies
Test values with testing standard cited
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Audit
What you check
Positive material identification by XRF or OES analyser
Red flag that fails it
Missing manufacturer information
What TiAlloy supplies
Third-party inspection & EN 10204 3.2 on request
Customs & Engineering Compliance
The certificate has also ceased to be a mere quality document. One European importer relayed the instruction verbatim: “To prove that the origin of the goods is not Russia, a Mill Test Certificate (MTC) should be presented.”
This turns it into a customs compliance certificate, as well as an engineering certificate. For US imports, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection publication covers importing into the United States, including required entry documentation.
ISO 9001
Quality management system
ISO 14001
Environmental management system
ISO 45001
Occupational health & safety
EN 10204 3.1
Manufacturer inspection cert, standard on every order
EN 10204 3.2
Third-party or purchaser countersignature on request
Auditing a new mill and want the document pack in advance?
Request Quote & Sample Certificate
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Pricing follows the engineering
These factors affect how TiAlloy prices any quote: provided here so you can be sure to come back a complete request the first time.
Grade and alloy content
Why it moves the number: Molybdenum, nickel and nitrogen content set the raw material cost floor.
State in your enquiry: Grade, or the service data if you want us to recommend one.
Form and dimension & Order quantity
Why it moves the number: Non-standard thickness or wall may require a dedicated production run. A production slot has a minimum economic tonnage per heat.
State in your enquiry: Stainless steel plate sizes or wall and diameter, plus tolerance class. Tonnage or piece count, and whether it repeats.
Certificate type & Test scope
Why it moves the number: EN 10204 3.2 adds an independent inspector and calendar time. Impact, intergranular corrosion and eddy current testing add process steps.
State in your enquiry: 3.1 or 3.2, and the nominated inspection body. Required tests and acceptance criteria.
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We don't deal in hoped-for dates
We are happy to make two formal promises to you because these are the areas where customers are most frequently let down.
Firstly, TiAlloy quotes a production slot, not a “hoped for date.” Secondly, if the production slot moves, we proactively inform you, no need to chase us! We specify the minimum order quantity by grade and form, not as a flat figure for everything and confirm this in writing with the quote.
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Strict Delivery Standards
Delivery terms deserve the same rigorous approach, because specifying the Incoterm determines when duty, freight and brokerage are charged: it’s a contract term, not an accounting term.
For the importer of record, the entry documentation required and the process that governs payment of these duties and taxes is published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Tell us the Incoterms you use and we’ll quote within them.
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Send this and the quote comes back
Grade or service parameters, dimensions and form, quantities, certificate and tests required, and shipping terms and final destination. That’s all you need to make a complete inquiry.
Any inquiry less than that gets you an estimate that is less granular than it looks - and that’s the trap behind most low price quotes.
Building the enquiry now?
Estimate flat product weight, then request a quote using the button on the left panel.
Advanced Stainless Steel Engineering & Sourcing Tools
Three-Route Sourcing Fit Scorer
The same bar of stainless steel reaches you mill direct, through a regional service center, or via a trading company. Answer six questions and the scorer names the route that fits — including when that route is not us.
Access ScorerProduct Form to Standard & Document Router
Most quote disputes are specification disputes in disguise. Pick the form, grade and service, and this router returns the governing ASTM specification, the EN 10204 document type to name, and a copy-ready RFQ block.
Use Document RouterLanded Cost Line-Item Builder
A unit price is not a landed cost. Tick the lines you already have a figure for, and this builder returns the gaps plus a request you can send to any supplier — including ours.
Launch Cost BuilderPREN & Service Envelope Calculator
Enter a composition, or pick a grade to prefill it. The published threshold for seawater pitting protection is a minimum PREN of 32.
Calculate PRENFAQ — Stainless Steel Sourcing Questions
Safety is achieved through verification of origins not with an assertion of nationality. Seek the company’s business license, an raw unedited plant video, and heat traceability certificate prior to purchasing, then confirm delivered material by matching the heat numbers on the tags and using an XRF or OES analyser to verify the alloy. Specify EN 10204 3.2, when its use justified, and an independent inspector sign it off for you.
What differentiates a mill from a reseller? Four key areas: 1) the certificate is issued by the actual melting plant, 2) grades beyond 304/316 are offered, 3) quote details grade, standard and test scope, 4) lead time is expressed as a production slot. We are a stainless steel distributor but where traceability is critical, the first factor stands alone.
Split the question by exposure, because a single answer does not encompass a hull fitting and a hand rail. For pristine immersion, the honest answer is super austenitic or super duplex - grades that sit above the PREN 32 cut-off point, which within our choice of grades is 904L, 2205 and 2507. For splash zone and near-coastal air, 316L works where it is rinsed by rain or rinsed on a maintenance cycle, but it will stain and slowly pit under the build-up of salts, and a crevice such as a bolted flange hastens the pit. The key inputs are chloride level at a point in the cycle, maximum metal temperature and is a crevice present. Send us those three and we will tell you what grade we would recommend, and we will do so clearly stating where 316L is being asked to perform a task it cannot.
Both 321 and 347 are stabilised by titantium and niobium respectively, to retard sensitisation at welds, and 310S has the highest combined chromium and nickel in our ranges, for corrosion resistance to oxidation. Stabilized types are the response most often used when a welded structure will repeatedly pass through the disintegration range.
Chloride level measured, temperature of peak metal temperature, is there a crevice present, what strength is needed, what method of fabrication will be used. Whether a grade is familiar should be last on that list, because that is the input that more often than not results in both over- and under- specification.
Correct bar. It is rolled via the bar route, and then either peeled, ground or drawn to the specification ordered, and the quotation states this.
Both are fixed per grade and form, because the lot for a duplex heat and a 304 coil run do not have the same minimum. We reaffirm the figure in writing at quotation along with the production slot, so request with your grade, form and dimensions and you will receive an answer specific to your needs, rather than a range.
