High Quality A516 70 Steel Plates
ASTM A516 Grade 70 plates are used in a large number of pressure applications covered by the ASME code and the Pressure Equipment Directive. Our focus is on customers who are using the plates for applications in the oil and the gas industry – upstream and downstream – where the technical quality of the steel is critically important.
All of our mills are approved mills for many, if not all, of the worlds major oil and gas companies. This means that the quality of the steel making has already been pre-approved. There’s a good reason for this. The pressure vessel steel plates that come from our mills – mainly Dillinger, Thyssen and NLMK Clabecq are the result of hundreds of years of steel making experience. In Dillinger’s case it is over 300 years of making steel at the same site.
Three hundred years of incremental improvements means that our plates deliver the ultra low sulphur and phosphorous that is so critical in ensuring defect free vessels and reactors. Sulphur values in SA516 70 steel are typically 70 times lower than required by the A 516/A 516M standard, whilst phosphorous is typically 30 times lower.
That’s a big deal because not only does it mean that the chance of the ASTM A516 Grade 70 plate failing a retest during production is vanishingly low, but it also means faster approval by the end user of the MTCs and a much much better end product that will over its lifetime reduce operating expenses because of its greater reliability and improved maintainability.
All of plates meet this high quality requirement. That means thousands of tonnes available for your project that can be delivered to the port in a matter of a couple of days allowing you to expedite production or help win another tender.
Don’t take our word for it though – ask for an MTC and see for yourself!