Stainless
steel seamless pipes are typically used in chemical industries, in food
processing and in pharmaceuticals. There are hundreds of stainless steelseamless pipe manufacturers in India, some operating on a large scale while
many are small to medium sized units. Stainless steel seamless pipes are
manufactured in a variety of ways.
One
method is to use stainless steel rod as base and then pierce a hole into it
after which it is rolled and heated to ensure a perfect profile. Another method
is to use an extrusion mill. Stainless Steel bars are used as feedstock. They
are fed through a tube into a die of appropriate dimensions to give seamless
pipes of the desired wall thickness and diameters. Another process is gun
drilling. Here the feedstock is a pretreated round stainless steel bar. It is
drilled using a flute drill to give SS pipes of precise diameters and wall
thicknesses. The tubes can go through a further process of heating, annealing
and hardening for use as pressure pipes. Cold forming is a specialized process
in which the SS tube is cold drawn through a die. This yields SS pipes for
specialist applications. Of all these processes extrusions is the cheapest and
gives maximum production.
Though there are hundreds of stainless steel seamless pipe manufacturers in India, you do not know about the quality of the
SS pipe and whether it will suit your specific application. Some may not anneal
the feedstock tube in an annealing furnace, for example. Only a few SS pipe
manufacturers can give you seamless SS pipes of the type and quality so it is
best to inquire into details to know you are getting true value for money.
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