About Welded Pipes and Tubes

Steel commonly refers to an alloy that comprises largely of iron and carbon. Even though carbon is considered as the most cost-effective alloy material, we can also use other materials such as, manganese, vanadium, chromium, and tungsten. The main purpose of an alloy is to harden the iron and the different amount of these alloying elements ascertains the malleability, hardness and tensile strength of steel. Nowadays steel is used as a major component in infrastructure and buildings in the form of steel pipes and tubes.

A pipe is usually referred as a hollow cylinder or tube. The basic use of a pipe or tube is to carry materials besides being used as a component in structures. A pipe is classified by its internal diameter on the other hand tube is defined on the basis of its external diameter.

Nowadays they are mainly used to supply water to homes and offices. Large steel pipelines are used to carry gas, oil and water. The other uses of pipelines include, transportation of sewage, slurry, and even beer. Steel pipes and tubes are also used to support people and materials in construction and repair of office buildings and homes.

The other uses of steel pipes and tubes are as follows:

1. Rollers in conveyer belts and
2. Casing in construction for concrete pilings
3. Pressure manufacturing processes and high temperature manufacturing processes
4. Casings for oil wells, oil refining equipment, etc.

Welded steel pipes and tubes comes in varied diameters, sizes, tensile strength, lengths, etc. Depending on the use, welded pipes and tubes can also be custom manufactured such as precision pipes, tubular poles, hamilton poles, API pipes, electric poles, light weight galvanized pipes for sprinkler irrigation, etc. Raw material needed to manufacture normal category of welded steel pipes and tubes include HR & CR coils. With the use of advanced technology the capacity utilisation for the manufacturing of welded pipes has improved considerably in the past couple of years. Most of the pipe distributors and traders stock varied sizes and diameters of pipes. You can buy directly from them.