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Baosteel Special Steel Successfully Supplied for One User with Over 270 Tons

Recently, Baosteel Special Steel successfully supplied for one user with over 270 tons of S32101 duplex stainless steel plates used in nuclear power generation. It was first batched supply of this product by Baosteel Special Steel in area of nuclear power, which made Baosteel one of the only two domestic steel plants that could currently produce import-substitute S32101 duplex stainless steel plates for nuclear power generation.

S32101 is nitrogen-alloyed high-performance economical duplex stainless steel. Its performance under high temperature and highly corrosive conditions excels those of 304 and 304L. Due to strict requirements for comprehensive performances of this duplex stainless steel plate, users are seriously critical in choosing materials from domestic steel plants, and mainly purchased imported ones. To strive for supply of this product for users, Baosteel Special Steel had based on sorting out, investigation and research on market of under-constructed nuclear projects, repeatedly communicated and confirmed with proprietaries, design institutes and manufacturers on product technical problems, etc., worked actively with users in providing material data and delivery of testing materials, etc., its S32101 products finally passed the test. At the same time, products of Baosteel Special Steel had fulfilled all the standard requirements for nuclear power generation in system evaluation of items of its composition, weld seams and anti-corrosion properties conducted by entrusted Hefei General Machinery Research Institute with reference to technical specifications of nuclear purchase. After repeated verification for over one year, Baosteel Special Steel formally entered the user's system as qualified suppliers, and received purchase order of over 270 tons in the second quarter of this year. 

During manufacturing and delivery of the purchase order, Baosteel Special Steel not only properly solved problems of product surface quality and plate shape, but also organized and established on site leadership group to respond quickly to user demands, rush to user's production site to learn about user manufacture and production techniques several times and conducted technical guidance for material application. Baosteel Special Steel also looked for shortcomings in itself from source, and organized key difficulty solving for problems of over-quantity of grinding points and defected plate flatness in supplied products. 

Marketing department of Baosteel Special Steel is currently closely tracking product application conditions of user to fulfill the objective to realize stable supply of S32101 duplex stainless steel plates.

Source: http://www.baosteel.com/group_en/contents/2863/42771.html
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Baosteel Duplex Stainless Steel Used in Nuclear Power Generation, Realized First Commercial Production for Users
Topics: Metallurgy