Structure of Metal and Manufacturing Process

Sept 2008

Structure of Metal and Manufacturing Process

Stainless steel mills produce hundreds of tons of stainless steel strip per week and even sometimes per day. Stainless steel that is produced for pipes, structural items, slabs, bars, and strip derives from the same virgin material that enters into stainless steel production. Because of the volumes produced, industries such as the Photochemical Machining Industry do not have material that is solely produced for it from virgin material. The steel will have gone through many processes (igure 1) before the rolling mill that makes the inal strip product receives the material.

Peter Anniss and Peter Jeffries, Datum Alloys Ltd.